As a former Times subscriber, I speak from personal experience.Īfter a while, the web changed my news reading habits. Those stories should have remained with a Los Angeles focus. I don’t want to read about the struggle for economic survival in Detroit, on an in-depth first-person level. Immediately, the focus of front page, left-hand column news stories switched from in-depth local interest to – Midwest, East Coast and after a time, irrelevant international stories. The Times lost the battle in 2000 when the Chandler family sold their controlling interest in the paper to the Tribune company of – ta da – Chicago. The Los Angeles Times didn’t lose the war for readers because of their website presence. I trust my own experience with the internet more than speculation and theory, and my experience tells me I have been strengthened, not weakened, by “technopolization.” Reply View in chronology I have connected with people all over the world whom I would never otherwise have met.
When I wanted to homeschool, I read the education laws myself and didn’t need to rely on the local public school authorities who were either ignorant or antagonistic and routinely misinformed people about their rights. I have diagnosed health problems that doctor’s missed, and have caught problems with prescribed medicines. I find books I would never have heard of otherwise, and I can buy them online easily. The internet doesn’t disable people, it opens worlds. I’m old enough to have lived much of my adult life without the internet.
As products of a technopolized society, we lose the process of thinking and memory.” “It just may be that the internet, like a virus, will create a society too weak to defend itself from threat of internal collapse.
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