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Why The Internet Will Never Take Over Radio Bemba

10:25 H | Topics: Internet - Magazines - Media

An article I read today over at Colorlines nearly knocked me off my seat in front of my computer but upon reflection it makes a hell of alot of sense. Daisy Hernandez starts her piece with a shocking statement (to me anyway):

I don’t read blogs.
It feels like something I should whisper to a priest in a confessional booth. I could make the sign of the cross and blurt out: “I don’t watch television. I’ve only been on YouTube once. I don’t own a cell phone that has…a keyboard.”

As a person who spends a good part of her life blogging, looking for things to blog, and reading things that other people blog this is a hard concept for me to fathom but then Daisy reminds us that:

Just because people aren’t iChatting doesn’t mean that information’s not moving in our communities.

Daisy tells readers:

My auntie’s another one living in middle immigrant America. She reads the local papers and watches TV. But before I saw anything in the mainstream press about the spike in suicide among Latina teenagers, she was telling me about the kid that jumped out a window and killed herself in the neighborhood.

The other day my boyfriend came to me after attending a music event in el Barrio (aka Spanish Harlem) and informed me (or so he thought) that plena was used as a sort of news service among the jibaro commuity in Puerto Rico. I threw him a "duh" look but this morning had to reflect more upon it.

My mother is never going to read a blog , not even mine. My abuela, at 94, doesn't understand the concept of cable tv (if it's not on Univision or Telemundo it doesn't count) but both are women who are up on the news and know about what's going on in the world, without reading VivirLatino.

Now I'm not saying that we shouldn't be reading blogs (baby needs leche!!!) I'm just saying that news comes from many outlets (says the blogger who is listening to public radio right now).

Read the entire article at Colorlines which you should be reading anyway.

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