> You talked about SNL and The Daily Show manipulating the news to make it humorous. If a reporter is manipulating the news (under-reporting the popularity of video blogs) for some reason, how does that make it any different from SNL or The Daily Show? (The only way it would be different is if the reporter was too clueless to actually do the research and find out the truth behind the story) > -- > Bev
Thank for clarifying your last point a bit better, Bev. The point I was getting to earlier is why does this news anchor claim that Rocketboom is "fake news" while _his_ ABC webcast is "real news". The point that you have just made agrees with my prior statement that all news is fabricated, whether it is comedy or 'reality'. The reason for this is that reporters take what they want out of a story and broadcast a fraction of the full picture. The difference between shows like SNL and this ABC webcast is that SNL invents stories for comedic purposes, while this ABC reporter is leaving out vital information explaining why there weren't very many videoblog downloads last year. I mean, he _could_ have added a sentence saying something like "However, with the growing popularity of the video iPod and the growing online accessibility of vlogs from places like iTunes, videoblog downloads in 2006 are _sure_ to overtake any numbers from previous years." Instead... he just made it look like videoblogs were unpopular and that it's best to just sit back and watch television. My best explanation for WHY he reported the story in this fashion is that although ABC has an online webcast, they fear that television as-we-know-it will become extinct. When I was talking with a CBC reporter the other day, he said that he is terribly fearful that the mainstream media will fall behind and die... this is a fear shared by many in the mainstream. Kitka http://www.kitkast.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
