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The press run as a herd. I doubt the NYT or
anyone else is going to suddenly do an article about some of the great talents
lurking around here. That is just "too nice".
No. Someone will videotape something really
terrible or sensational (Rodney King style) and that will cause that incident to
get attention. Then the media will latch onto vlogging as a secondary
interest---if Mr. X hadn't realized his actions were being videotaped, was his
privacy violated? etc.
I've seen it happen so many times before.
I've been in the midst of several media "feeding frenzies". The problem is
that you really have no control over them once they start. You really
don't know where they will end up. They are also totally random.
Instead of focusing on people really playing key roles in vlogging, they might
end up focusing on crazy person who has just managed to capture their
attention.
I spent last weekend in Indianapolis working with
filmmakers who are making a documentary about how the Raelians took over the
cloning debate and totally warped all the public discussion even though they
were absolute loonies.
The same thing could happen with vlogging. Let
somebody make a vlog showing how to make meth amphetamine in your own kitchen or
something and watch the sparks fly..
I wouldn't be surprised to see some sicko (like
that serial killer they just caught) film himself killing someone or something
and getting it vlogged on the Internet. I never saw the beheading of
Daniel Pearl but I think it became quite popular on the Internet.
Randolfe (Randy) Wicker
Videographer, Writer, Activist
Advisor: The Immortality Institute Hoboken, NJ http://www.randywickerreporting.blogspot.com/ 201-656-3280
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