Live From Blogworld: The Political Blogosphere in Transition
Video = Propaganda
“Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.”
Frank Zappa, quoted in Linda Botts, “Loose Talk” (1980)
US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 – 1993)
What gives blogs their power is the relatively unrestricted feedback (interactivity). What is killing the MSM is their lack of feedback. Generation ‘X’ is more interactive then any generation before it. I blame/credit video games.
The MSM was created to force feed entertainment pabulum to the Laziest Generation. Generation ‘X’ was raised on video games, not Movies nor soap operas. So they expect to interact with their entertainment.
This is killing both Hollweed and the MSM. The clowns running these mega-entertainment outlets are not comfortable with interacting with their customers, so they are mistaking the medium for the message. After all for the last several decades, they have preached the the Medium IS the message. They cannot let go of that false concept that underpins their entire existence, so they are fighting back by trying to co-op the medium. Converting blogs to video-driven Propaganda outlets is just one way to reestablish control and get rid of that pesky interactivity thingie.
“I read no newspaper now but Ritchie’s, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
3rd president of US (1743 – 1826)
