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Originally posted by Raven_Writer
Ok, this is just a sarcastic remark here....what about andy griffin (or whatever it is), "I love Lucy", and others? They ain't made in color, nor high-tech...and I don't know what you mean by "big"
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It's
not a sarcastic remark, it's a simple comparison.
Fax machines . . .the kind that transmit paper . . . you know what they do, right? They take a photograph of the high-quality original and they transmit that photograph over long distances. Then, they take the image and print it to paper. You can make out a lot of what the original looked like, but it's not
quite the same.
When you film something, or take a picture of it, or do anything else to record an experience and transmit it to someone else, you've created a facsimile of that unique, original moment.
So, then, how is a television
any different from a paper fax machine? It users different technology for the same result.
The point is, once you understand the comparison, that nothing you might see on television is ever quite as good as it is when you experience it for yourself. Nothing.
Where situations exist that don't allow us to be participants, media is a great tool. When it's entirely possible to involve people in the Real Thing, and I'm not talking about Coca-Cola here, there's absolutely no excuse in giving them a lesser quality experience.