Monday, October 27, 2008

sesame street taught me how to read

Media
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients


~ MEDIA start see> MEDDLE
^u id+ | MIDDLE CORE or MIDST | from
complementary ideas in see> MIND
lat MEDIUS = MIDDLE or INTERMEDIATE
lit+ "MEDIA" IN MODERN TERMS implies
"INTERMEDIARY" as per COMMUNICATION VEHICLE
mus> it INTERMEZZO or lat INTERMEDIUS for
MUSICAL MOVEMENT BETWEEN MAJOR SECTIONS or
MUSICAL INTERLUDE FOR A SPECIAL INSTRUMENTAL SEGMENT
ply> | JOURNALISM BECAME "MEDIA" AFTER
NEWS BECAME A BUSINESS MEDIUM |
ply> | FEVERISH MEDIA or CIRCUS LIKE ENTERTAINMENTS
DESTROYED THE ROMAN CIVILIZATION and may
DESTROY THE USA REPUBLIC'S SENSE OF POLITICAL REALITIES |
note MEDIA points to MEASURE as in CONTENT or
MILIEU including CULTURE
MEDIA or COMMUNICATION INDUSTRY prone to serve
MERCENARY INTERESTS who increasingly control
NEWS MEDIA
note MEDIUM implies BETWEEN TWO not equivalent to
note MIDDLE from lat MEDIANUS or in eng
note MEDIAN
note MEDIEVAL as in BETWEEN
lit+ " THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE " arose from
title of the first chapter of
" UNDERSTANDING MEDIA " by
Marshall H MCLUHAN [#]
it underscores the importance of PACKAGING as if
CONTENT IS SECONDARY TO THE EXTERNAL or
SUPERFICIAL or SURFACE which ATTRACTS ATTENTION
note above emphasis reflects BUSINESS VALUES or
ADVERTISING as in sug> VERSION
PROMOTION or sug> EMOTION
PROPAGANDA sug> PROPAGATE
note above implies DESCENT TO THE LOWEST or COMMONEST
note word web MEDIATIVE IMMEDIATE MEDIOCRE
MEAN MEDIAL MEDIAEVAL MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN
MEDICATE MEDICAL MEDICINE METE MEDICINAL
MEDITATIVE MESIAL MESODERM MESON MESOPOTAMIA
REMEDIAL REMEDY IRREMEDIABLE MIDDLING METE MEDITATIVE
MID AMID AMIDST MIDDAY MIDLAND MIDDLING MIDNIGHT
MIDWIFE MIDDLEMAN
sug> CONTROL of MEDIA sug> MURDOCH
see> IDEOLOGY
cont> see> MEDIC pointing to MEDICINE
via Word Ideas

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