Doc Edward Morbius ⭕On Media Affordances: Broadcast vs. Print
... Broadcast and print are, as is hopefully obvious, two different media, with two different affordances.
In particular, broadcast offers a cheaply expanded audience, whilst print offers cheaply expanded content. ...
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On Media Affordances: Broadcast vs. Print
On Media Affordances: Broadcast vs. Print Reading an early 1970s account of television news practices and history, Edward J. Epstein's News from Nowhere (https://www.worldcat.org/title/news-from-nowhere-television-and-the-news/oclc/1091886146), I was struck by a passage discussing Fred Friendly's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_W._Friendly) ultimately disasterous (to his career) attempts to provide expanded coverage of Congressional hearings. Broadcast and print are, as is hopefully obvious, two different media, with two different affordances. In particular, broadcast offers a cheaply expanded audience, whilst print offers cheaply expanded content. In broadcast, time is expensive --- there are only 24 hours in a day, and normal news coverage is typically a small fraction of that. On the other hand, interest parties can tune in to a broadcast without creating additional load, and a signature of breaking news (or other high-interest events, with sport being the canonical example...