In the writing Bart Simpson's : Prince of Irreverence by Douglas Rushkoff. Rushkoff makes a proposition or thesis statement about the Simpson's saying that " What began as entertaining interstitial material for an alternative network variety show has revealed itself, in the twenty-first century , as nothing short of a media revolution.
Rushkoff makes various points of views. One is that when he says the Simpson's take place in a small town name after the fictional location of an earlier television show " Father knows best". Just as in the earlier show the Simpson's is a family that has a open mind about each others lifestyles , and even after conflict the family always come together at the end.
He describes Bart as being ironic just paragraphs earlier, before he goes into an episode where Bart plays a prank on the media. Although the story has some truth to it , the writer voices his self-conscious comments on the media. Sort of like destructing history for the entertainment of his audience.
Rushkoff might respond defensively to the writing by George F. Will , Reality Television : oxymoron. the show is not made with fictional characters for one and that audience that it draws in usually participated or have tried things they see on reality television before. will uses the words of Fred Allen saying "Imitation is the sincerest form of television" . The blame should not fall on the show because the opening credits , says clearly that the stunts being performed are done by professionals so do not try this at home.
Rushkoff might agree with Goldwasser adding that the older generation has not yet stop watching the older forms of media which seems to be more informed than ever before. CNN is one of the most watched stations and with the younger generation on their Ipods , and computers that the older generation is the majority of the viewers.
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You make a good point about saying that CNN is being watched by the older generation more than the younger generation. The younger generation is on their ipods and computers more than watching channels like CNN. Also, I like that you picked that as his thesis because throughout his article he pretty much hammers home that The Simpson's did start out as a thing for filler time with in another show and is now one of the greatest shows of all time.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your comparison to Goldwasser's reading. I believe the older generation may have a harder time trying to accept that the society if going through a technological revolution. And most of the people making up the rules as to whether or not something is an acceptable form of reading is the older generation. The younger generation has more variety of outputs to keep up with reality, we do not need to read countless numbers of books to make it apparent. I don't even rely on books anymore since I have a Kindle. Everything is gradually becoming electronic.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you stated that the Simpsons are just like in other family in the sense that they will have their hard times and in the end they will always come back together a be a family again. Even though the Simpsons may not be the best family of all, they do have good morals in the fact that they stand behind one another through everything. I thought you did a very good job of summarizing the points that Ruskoff made.
ReplyDeleteI like how you mentioned the whole thing about CNN is watched more than older people then it is by the younger generation, I thought that was really interesting. I think why younger generations dont really watch CNN because now the culture today needs something to keep them interested so I think CNN needs to think about things/ways to get the younger viewers involved. Over all I thought that your whole article was good and you seemed to provide a lot of information about your authors topic.
ReplyDeleteWell stated about CNN! I had never thought to compare it that way. I think that you wrote well and shared the point of your author very nicely.
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