1) Prairie home companion represents the last vestiges of the radio drama - an entirely aural mass media story. When television first overtook radio, there were those that said it was less 'creative' because the viewer didn't have to imagine anything and could sit passively. Do you agree with this? Is audio inherently more involved than audio+video?

Television undoubtedly destroyed radio drama, and its influence on the world was unprecedented. Not because it allowed laziness of imagination, but because it transformed ability of foreign images to reach the mind. Although the screen is a passive viewing device, the mind is able to take such images and remember them, far better than the memory of imagined places (similar to how you forget dreams). I do agree that it makes you more passive in your viewing, but overall, I feel the tv can actually inspire more imagination as it provides images we would never be able to produce independently in our minds eye. Still, the radio requires more involvement, but i do not feel it makes us less creative.

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