The Death of Reading?

[LBernier at tribune.com]

     Older than you, unfortunately.  'Course, even I (at 31) am part of the 
     so-called MTV generation - after all, I was a junior in high school on 
     that fateful day in 1981 that they aired 'Video Killed the Radio' star 
     and started a media revolution(?), and, I have to admit, that me and 
     my high school beau spent countless hours glued to the TV watching 
     Martha, Nina, that blond guy and the guy who looked like Epstein 
     playing Bowie and Van Halen videos, telling time by that Saturn 
     rocket.  Not to mention Sunday evenings in college watching "The Young 
     Ones," and even now, I'll tune in to watch "Aeon Flux."  At least at 
     19 you escape getting lumped into "Gen-X" (which was a rockin' band in 
     the early 80's!)
     
     Categories, categories, it's all a state of mind.
     
     Jean.
     
     PS - I like to imaging ol' Tom watching Beavis and Butthead and 
     laughing his cajones off . . .


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Subject: Re: The Death of Reading? 
Author:  Steve Seeger <seeger at umich.edu> at Internet_tco
Date:    10/19/95 11:42 AM




On Wed, 18 Oct 1995 tevans at wpo.nccu.edu wrote

> The MTV generation should be just about ready for
> the discontinuities of "V," don't you think?

Speaking of this, how old is everybody here?  I'll be 19 tomorrow.  I 
have read GR twice and still didn't understand most of it, but I still 
enjoyed and understood some of it.  I guess i would be part of the eMpTyV 
generation too.  (In case anyone hasn't noticed, within the next year 
they will not be playing videos at all... just beavis & butthead reruns 
and trivial, mindless shows.)