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...seen such a potent interaction between the arts and technology. You have to go back to the invention of the printing press in the 1450s to find anything comparable. Now, seemingly overnight, machines and electronics were transforming virtually everything. Photography, an important 19th century invention, became almost a different medium in the 1920s and '30s with the combination of high-quality, handheld cameras, film on an advanceable roll, and the flashbulb. Photographers were free to roam the fields and streets. They could cover crimes and wars. Soft, pretty pictures gave way to a more spontaneous, realistic style...
...most technological entertainment medium in history is movies, as anybody can surmise from seeing the small army of technicians on a sound stage or location. Technology gave the silents a voice in 1927 (though some of the great silent performers, such as Charlie Chaplin, took their time about speaking), but more important, it enabled film to refine its unique visual language...
Today, effective social action does not always entail public spectacle. Often, as many of us who are politically active can attest, making a difference entails going door-to-door getting petitions signed or phone-banking to raise money. The Internet has become a central medium of communication, moving debate and discussion from microphones and bullhorns to computer screens. We're not taking as many risks with our physical well-being, but that's not because we are afraid or lazy--it is in part because we do not need to take such risks to advance our causes...
...only have magazines like Slate taken advantage of the new digital medium, but newspaper op-ed pages have grown over the years...
...chair, president and CEO of A.H. Belo Corporation, Decherd has led the company's emergence from the forest of medium-sized, family-owned newspapers into a national media company that reaches from a television station in Seattle-Tacoma to the Providence Journal-Bulletin newspaper...