BLOG RE DO: peek-a-Boo World!

The article Peek-a-Boo World, by Neil Postman brings up a plethora of viewpoints on technologies effect on society. Although, it was a huge technological advancement, he believes that the telegraph had a large negative impact. He said, He said, “The telegraph made a three-prolonged attack on typography’s definition of discourse, introducing on a large scale of irrelevance, impotence and incoherence. Instead of worrying about the information we receive it was more important how much information and how far it came. This is why so much information became so irrelevant to ones life; because there was a lot of information but had no individual impact. The telegraph would give us information that would be spoken about but then easily and unintentionally forgotten. It processed a lot of useless information that didn’t a connection to ones life. 
I believe that Postman talking about the telegraph exemplifies today’s impact of technology on society. He clarifies the idea that the telegraph disrupted communication. Everyday people are exposed to useless information that has no effect on their daily lives. Our use of media is merely just another way to escape from reality and into the technological world. I completely agree with Postman, I feel that the information was provided with is mostly useless. A lot of the information people get in today’s society is by using Internet sources.
I went on the news website CNN.com to see what the top stories actually were. The three top stories correlates with postman’s view of useless information that just gives people something to talk about. The three top stories were Man survives 500-foot fall into Pennsylvania strip mine, Singer Winehouse cautioned for assault, and FBI investigates possible kidnap for ransom. All of these articles shows us how useless information is thrown around yet, have no bearing on ones life. Postman writes, “But most of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action.” The top stores doesn’t have an impact on ones life. After a day, people move on and talk about the new gossip and news for that day. There are many news sources that provide irrelevant information, which have no impact on an individual’s life. It seems to me that the actual message of the telegraph was for mostly entertainment purposes.