--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Kitka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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/ >
Current mainstream media won't go away, just will become significantly smaller in the future. We still have Opera, just the percentage of population going to see it is smaller. -- Enric -======- http://www.cirne.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/