Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Urban News: What’s Going On?

Human beings are curious little creatures. They need to know everything, whether it concerns them or not. We just can’t keep our noses out of anything that smells a little fishy and even if it doesn’t. Where earlier men relied on the grapevine and the word of mouth, most of what they got was distorted and unreal. Though that gossip era had its own charm, the increase in the reliability of information is quite appeasing. With the improvement in technology we have various sources of information that we can count upon.

We started with the newspaper and then advanced to radio and then to television. All these were the new age avatars that were full of interesting information and entertainment. Newspapers brought out juicy scandals that urged us to talk about them for hours, days, weeks and months together. With radio we had sound added to all the information. It became much easier to rely on spoken words rather than on written ones. Also with the radio we had MUSIC- A delight, a source of never ending joy, a companion to those who were ever lonely.

Television added a third dimension to the human entertainment and rather this one was most important by far- vision. Now when we could actually see who is telling us what, it was way easier to trust them and what they said. And the BAM- the INTERNET!! The insatiable thirst of human brain was never tickled as much before. An entire ocean of knowledge was now there in front of him waiting to be explored. He could get anything that he could ever want to know- online black news videos, latest breaking news, world news videos, urban politics videos, African American News, Black Videos everything was at his command. He could now use this amazing potential to discover all that he dreamed of.