Books are better than both radio and TV

Books are better than both radio and TV

BY MUSYOKA NGUI

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t is easy to dismiss the importance of reading if you have never been intimate with the warmth of a well written page turner.

I daresay that a reading culture is more enjoyable and beneficial than listening to the radio or television. Reading is regarded old school nowadays due to advancement in technology. But among mass media as we know them, it is only books that have remained most relevant after they ushered the era of mass publishing since Gutenberg printing press.

It is easy to dismiss the importance of reading if you have never been intimate with the warmth of a well written page turner. Reading is not for idlers and shallow minded people. It is for intellectuals; people who can interrogate the stuff between the lines and debunk the literature there in. So if you are a passive consumer of content, curl on the couch.

It is only by reading books were we get to know how the wise people think and be bettered by their lessons. A book is the most treasonable gift you can give or get from a person who loves you. It is a posterity. Timeless.

Radio and TV may sound cool but their perishableness and superficialness can only be consumed within a very short space and time.

With the advent of the Internet, things are looking up for all media. Electronic books and convergence of radio and television on the internet will only serve to enrich the content delivered to the mass media consumers.

The writer is a final year student of Bachelors of Arts Degree in Communication and Media at Chuka University and a Blogger at musyokangui.blogspot.com

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