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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425725" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Pandora's Box Unlocks</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425725" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">With prosperous public to politics wed, <br>privacy's threatened, it can't be gainsaid.<br>Consumer protection is often misled<br>by headlines enticing and small print widespread.<br>Set in strip lighting, or spoken, or read, <br>through radio, T.V., broadcasted in bed.<br>Nor ever has Internet, spammed, been immune, <br>text message records, repeats, slick slogan, tune.<br>Printed in polychrome over our head, <br>in so many senses, for senseless fathead, <br>over the airwaves judiciously spread<br>from high ultra-violet to low infra-red, <br>pasted on posters in blue, black, or red, <br>advertisement squares all our savings have bled.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425725" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The first time I set eyes upon square screen<br>was for the Coronation of the Queen, <br>the room was packed with neighbours far and wide, <br>sardines with scarce a breathing space inside.<br>But that was almost sixty years ago, <br>since then from novelty we've seen it grow<br>from monochrome to tri-di spy immersion<br>subliminal for and against subversion<br>to cover acres as necessity<br>acting for good and ill till cecity<br>swallows sight, with insight's déjà vu<br>quite compromised, disinformation too<br>blatant to ignore which rumour pours<br>upon mass and seeps through skin deep pores<br>polluting much, for such appears a lot<br>of Public Mission with both words forgot.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425725" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">It's difficult to talk about the 'box'<br>ignoring all its spread in fact unlocks.<br>Here 'News' from global village in real time, <br>there sights and sounds of peaks men mean to climb.<br>Convergency has helped it piggy-back<br>on Internet that some folk love to hack, <br>as streaming waves however they're defined, <br>all senses of the term, we must remind<br>ourselves that impacts follow paths to logic strange<br>as here they help and there their feeds derange.<br>One thing is certain, advertising space<br>has cut attention spans yet leaves slight trace<br>of passing through collective consciousness<br>to leave John Doe in quite a pretty mess.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425725" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">This essay could continue till each cow<br>comes home, they roam on many pastures now, <br>the arguments both pro and con should be<br>well integrated in convergency<br>of multi-media, cinema, and web, <br>3D, HD, and acronyms that ebb<br>and flow as progress further progress seeds, <br>information saturation succeeds<br>in drawing in the crowds five hours a day<br>to kill extended time on crime, sport, play, <br>perhaps to compensate for empty mind<br>that dare not look to future nor behind, <br>but lives from day to day as series shower<br>debilitating plots that seem to flower<br>to fill the void most would avoid to fill<br>in ways that build rich character fulfilled.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425725" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Heroic couplets on the television<br>seem odd conveying theme, yet the decision<br>stems from the ways the human mind has grown<br>to integrate disinformation sown<br>as if quite part and parcel of their days<br>on Earth, to comfort loneliness. Displays<br>of wars abroad or terrorists at home<br>distract the brainless brains once wont to roam<br>from more important things, priorities<br>once held essential, now old-fashionned tease.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425725" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">One can no longer speak on television<br>as media in itself without precision<br>that information channels multiplied<br>with much which borrows begs from other side, <br>as radio upon the Internet<br>cannot be severed from flash films, and yet<br>the question could perhaps be re-assessed: <br>will future influence be worst or best<br>when all is said and done, in fifty years<br>a fairer answer may with laughter, tears, <br>or some of each, an explanation offer<br>apart from that of draining public's coffer.<br>An overview essential seems to be<br>when broaching impact that stems from T.V.<br>upon our daily lives that seem to flee<br>from societal responsibility<br>as individual decision making<br>appears to be upon the point of breaking.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425725" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">(12 April 2012)</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a></strong></div>