05-20-2020, 10:59 AM
Obviously the only way to get Herbert von Karajan's magnificent recording of Bruckner's eighth symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic is through a recording, as the Maestro died in 1986. Do you like the cinematic performances of Katharine Hepburn? You will need a recording.
OK, recordings are now convenient enough and cheap enough that one can often get a CD or video for about the same price as a pack of cancerettes.
Radio was more suited to local production for a longer time because it was not as expensive as television. When she was young (back in the early 1950's) my mother did radio shows for a small-town radio station with a limited market. (I wounder what she could have done in television had she been living in Kalamazoo or Lansing at the time. But TV is expensive for reasons other than technology of broadcasting images as opposed to sound bereft of images. Television requires that people have special make-up and wear the right clothes. The devices used for TV broadcasting of small-city news in a small market were cheesy back in the early 1960's (thus a story of a gas-station robbery in a town in "Bedlam, Adams County, Michigan" -- fictional town and county to protect the innocent) might be nothing more than a county map with the town of Bedlam pointed out).
But even radio went to a star system even if the star is only "Rash Libel" (get it?). The difference between radio stations isn't what it used to be because.. radio can specialize more, and local personalities do not matter so much.
OK, recordings are now convenient enough and cheap enough that one can often get a CD or video for about the same price as a pack of cancerettes.
Radio was more suited to local production for a longer time because it was not as expensive as television. When she was young (back in the early 1950's) my mother did radio shows for a small-town radio station with a limited market. (I wounder what she could have done in television had she been living in Kalamazoo or Lansing at the time. But TV is expensive for reasons other than technology of broadcasting images as opposed to sound bereft of images. Television requires that people have special make-up and wear the right clothes. The devices used for TV broadcasting of small-city news in a small market were cheesy back in the early 1960's (thus a story of a gas-station robbery in a town in "Bedlam, Adams County, Michigan" -- fictional town and county to protect the innocent) might be nothing more than a county map with the town of Bedlam pointed out).
But even radio went to a star system even if the star is only "Rash Libel" (get it?). The difference between radio stations isn't what it used to be because.. radio can specialize more, and local personalities do not matter so much.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.