Geobells Radio and Internet

With the rise of television and the internet the importance of radio has decreased. Mainly because it is no longer the only affordable informative and political device. Radio as Geobbells suggests was a political device. The Internet now has taken over radio’s political position “almost half of all Americans now get news over the internet” (Freeman and Thissu, 2003: 176). The Radio although easily accessible is not as world wide as the internet. The internet even involved in “encouraging the spread of small businesses ‘Net savvy’ special interest communities,” who are able to put across their own views. Inevitably these online communities are at the cost of “public commonwealth,” and so no longer is there ulitimate power of the elite.