Time to embrace all the new media
Traditional media formats such as cable TV, satellite TV, CDs and DVDs are inferior to their new-age equivalents. Chattanooga is known as “Gig City,” so why do we have to still use these media forms? With Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video, YouTube, Spotify, iTunes, etc., it is unnecessary to still use traditional media. Traditional media is more expensive, requires intensive start-up maintenance and usually involves many hidden fees. Online providers such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Instant Video and YouTube offer easy access to their content. With a simple log-in, one can access his favorite content on the go or in the comfort of his own home. The same goes for Spotify and iTunes; with all of their content backed up to the cloud, one can access them anywhere with an Internet connection. These new-age services allow you to minimize your belongings. Without having to physically own all the DVDs, CDs and set-top boxes, you are left with much more space and reduce the risk of loss or damage. EPB has granted Chattanooga the keys to the future of entertainment. It is time to embrace it.
Jesse Hunter
Respect laws; don’t make new ones
So Angie’s List can decide not to expand in Indiana, but one Christian baker in Colorado cannot decline to bake two lesbians a wedding cake for a ceremony the Bible does not define as a wedding? This is absurd, but the answer is not more laws; it is respect for the laws we have. Freedom of religion is in the U.S. Constitution, but same-sex marriage is not, and the Indiana constitution, respecting freedom of religion, states, “No law shall … interfere with the rights of conscience.” So both the Indiana and the U.S. Religious Freedom Restoration acts should be unnecessary. However, their need to restore religious freedom clearly shows it has been stolen. But who are the thieves? Deaf to being called “anti-Christian,” leftists perhaps will better hear themselves named in the terms “anti-Semitic” and “anti-Muslim,” for to force Christians to treat a sacrilege as a sacrament is to make Jews eat pork and Muslims drink whiskey. Fortunately, for now, Americans have enough freedom left to quit buying iPads and to compile our own lists of repair persons. To fix thievishness, I recommend Jesus.
Dr. Brian Hale
Red Bank Corker’s national coverage deserved
I am proud we have a U.S. senator who rates several pages in Time magazine. All of us back home know what they say about Bob Corker. Before he was elected mayor we knew him as a hard-working businessman, then he left a reputation as mayor we’ll never forget. He would make a great president. I remember as a commissioner I called him to discuss something of importance. My appointment with him was at 7:30 a.m. He started his days early.
Curtis Adams
Wolffs’ opera legacy remembered
Thank you so much for the nice article on Dr. Werner Wolff and Emmy Land Wolff (Page F2 of April 12 edition). It brought back so many nice memories for me and, I’m sure, for other former students of the Wolffs. I am so thankful for the music teacher at City High School (I believe her name was Ms. Hall) for encouraging students in the music department to meet the Wolffs and to sing with the opera chorus. I doubt I would have been exposed to opera had it not been for them. This was in the early 1940s, and I continued to study with Mrs. Wolff and to sing with the opera chorus until I moved away from Chattanooga. It was a wonderful experience and one I continue to cherish.
Peggy Granert Greever, Red Bank