August 28, 2006
Sans Media
I've just spent the past few days in deepest, rural France without TV, internet, newspapers and only a few minutes of the BBC World Service as it faded in and out of interference from another noisy, crackling station. It was a curiously refreshing experience being freed from the mixture of incredulity and incoherent rage that has marked so much of my recent encounters with the media as I desperately search for some sense among the Orwellian noise of so much that is presented to us. It make me wonder whether an austere diet of news consumption might be better for my mental health than the media gluttony I too often indulge in.
Posted by richard at August 28, 2006 04:20 PMYes, I also decided at one stage to limit the amount of news I watch - though it's crept back up. Not good for my general well-being though probably.
Anyway, your email address is bouncing, your Skype address doesn't work - I just get a block on it. How do I contact you?!
I'll Skype you if you'll make sure I'm not blocked or I don't somehow have the wrong address.
Amazing how awkward communication can still be in these days of multiple options.
Posted by: Karen at August 29, 2006 10:22 AMI think it was Kevin Kelly who said who and what you don't contact to is as important, if not more important, that what and who you contact to. Maybe this is a lesson I should learn.
Karen, as you know, I've sent you my contact details
Posted by: richard at August 30, 2006 12:16 AM