Summary & Response 3

In the article "But Enough About You", by Brian Williams he talks about how things like the internet and all other electrionic devices are taking over things the tv and movies. For the first couple of paragraphs William says "Americans have decided the most important person in their lives is ... them, and our culture is now built upon that idea." He is basically saying that people how now and days only care about themselves and now that's how the whole world thinks. In the next paragraph Williams talks about people today have to share every single aspect of their lives. He says that if they think it's important to them, than it defintely should be shared to the whole world. He says "The implied message is that if it has do with you, or your life, it's important enough to tell someone". Williams believes there is something wrong with this because people really don't care what happens in other people's lives, those things should be kept to themselves. He says personal and intimate things that used to be in diares are now posted in blogs for the whole world to see. Williams basically believes that nothing is kept secret anymore, everybody knows everybodys business. In the next paragraph Williams talks about tv and how we were once taught by characters like Barney and Elmo how important we were and how that's basically instinct. The next paragraph is basically a responce to objections. Williams knew some people might question the fact that he too has a daily blog so he says that we writes about his work. He says "While the media landscape of my youth, with its three television networks, now seems like forced national viewing by comparsion, and while I anchor a broadcast that is routinely viewed by an audience of ten million or more, it's nothing like it use to be." With this William is saying that even though he works for a television show that has a decent amount of aduience members he says its not like it used to be. He goes on to say that he works just as hard as other media things but they don't get as much attention as it should. He says he works so hard on his televisions shows just to let lured away about other things like the internet. For the next couple of paragraphs he talks about how now you have things like Ipod's and the internet that you can choose to watch and listen what you want listen to. Overall Williams arguement is that now and days people can choose what they want to listen to. He says that television is now hardly ever watched. He says the reason for all this is that people only want to watch what they want to watch and with tv they don't have that option. He says this is also the reason why things like the internet and cell phones are famous is because people can choose what not to listen to or see.

My Response:
My response to this article is that I agree with Williams. I agree with Williams idea that things like the internet and cell phones are overrated. He says that these things are taking away what television used to mean. He also says that people have the tendency to spread their business out through these things and that's what sparks everyone's interest. He says there's something wrong with that concept of people wantingto hear other people's business. Even though he says it's wrong for people to even spread their business in the first place. I think he's right. Everywhere on the internet all you see is how people feel and what they go through. It human nature to look at it and be interested because you may be going through the same things. With the internet you have the option to look at things you want to look at, with television you don't. That's why people don't watch it hardly anymore. Once you've seen the same things over and over again it get's boring. That's when the internet comes in. It's more entertaining. But what happened to those days when we learned our ABC's from the television. We learned how to talk and about basic social skills from the television and now we have our kids learning it from the computer. Television producers try to keep up with today's demand but they always get beaten by the internet. I believe that if somehow the television was a little more like the internet people would pay more attention to it.