For my week nine blog post, I chose to comment on an NPR.com interview with Al Gore. The story is called “In The Age Of Fake News And Alternative Facts, Al Gore Remains Optimistic.” Here is a link to his interview. http://www.npr.org/2017/03/14/520162882/in-the-age-of-fake-news-and-alternative-facts-al-gore-remains-optimistic
This interview is mostly surrounded about how Gore feels about how political and societal life can still advance in this advanced age of technology, specifically focusing on how the internet affects society. One very interesting comment Gore made was how he felt we as a society have witnessed “an erosion of the line between news and entertainment.” I think Gore hit the nail right on the head with this statement. I believe that people in society, as well as in the media, find a sort of entertaining value when they see a catastrophe on their screen. And maybe not even a catastrophe, maybe just regular news, but they see it less as a tool to inform, and more as a way to be entertained, the way someone watches a reality tv show simply to be entertained.
Despite this somewhat bleak and pessimistic outlook on our society today, Gore remains optimistic that that internet, as well as the free press, will do more to help our society as opposed to harm it. Gore said that people are complaining about the internet and social media the same way people complained about the printing press revolution. Gore clearly believes that the internet and social media are not eroding our society, but are allowing people to become more informed, and are being to become more informed almost instantaneously.
Regarding nats and ambient sounds, there doesn’t seem to be much of either. It seems to be simply a straight-forward interview, with no special audio tricks or added effects. I personally believe that if a few effects and ambient sounds had been added, this interview would gain so much more depth.
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