Sparkling|Light Your World

One of the most general complaints about TV is that most if not all of it is ‘rubbish’. This is indeed true, but only if rubbish is the discarded once-important stuff of everyday existence. Rubbish is what remains after something has been consumed, like food wrappings and leftovers. Rubbish is material that was once important but has since lost its importance. Last week’s news and last month’s breakfast chat show, last year’s editions of soaps and sports events from even a few weeks back are at best nostalgic relics to the viewers who were once eager to see them, perhaps to the point of arranging their day to make it possible. TV is an everyday medium, used and then discarded. TV programmes are a part of the texture of everyday life. They are scheduled to appear at the same time each day or week in a regular pattern that echoes the patterns of everyday life for most people. One characteristic of the everyday is its repetition of the same basic patterns and timings of getting up, going to work, eating, going to bed. Television schedules consciously respond to these patterns, providing different kinds of programming suited to the different ‘day-parts’ as they are known in the industry. 38 Television is moulded to, and moulds, everyday life.
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Internet is often called the information highway Super – the name given to it in his youth, when he began to get more accessible to the masses in general. More recent inventions on the Web and the so-called Web 2.0, turning the highway into the Super Highway Entertainment. Social networking sites that use like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and became number 1 in the use of the Internet. Communicate with friends, old and new, May the hottest entertainment use of the Internet, but there are many competing routes have fun on the Internet. Entertainment Super Highway has much to offer, from popular to obscure, whatever your preference may be.
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