The excerpt from the article " The Long Trail" is about a speaker comparing his limited media experiences as an adolescence in the seventies and eighties to unlimited options of the common day adolescence of the twentieth century. He sums up both experiences in two words, niches and hits. Meaning, in the seventies and eighties technology wasn't as advance as it was today and there was very limited options for mass communication. Therefore, in order to reach the big screen or any screen for that matter, what you did had to be major or in others words, a hit. But now that the things like the internet, cellphones, and game system have allowed the media to become more accessible reaching the big screen is at the click of a button. Now a days one doesn't have to be very talented in order to get screen time, anyone can do.And instant fame is not the only thing offer, the twentieth century technology as offered unlimited options of music, shopping, and entertainment. The peo...
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