my grandmother has never abandoned her radio as her source of information. she can't remember much for more than a few seconds nowadays, but she still listens to her cbc on her ancient, and probably carcinogenic, old radio, which is roughly the same size as her stove and would require multiple large men to move from place to place.

and, despite not having particularly different politics from each other (she's a very liberal old woman, in the true sense of the term), we often had difficulty following each other because we had such disparate framing.

the medium is, in some ways, the message. and, while, i'm not a digital native, i had to go to the computer lab at school to type book reports until i was roughly 15, i've fully embraced the internet as a complete and total source of information, for better or worse.

tv is about as relevant to me as radio is to most of us, and that's becoming a norm that the world needs to adjust to.