I think you're right. The last paragraph is confusing because it's hedging. He mentions that Amanda is an internet star and that she joined ABC... and then he doesn't draw any conclusions from that.
The article skims over the entire genre of "sit in front of my webcam" videos by saying "there is clearly a lot of appeal for many people in connecting to others and sharing things online". It's not just the piracy and one-off accident videos that fuels YT. It's also the feeling of being connected to whomever you subscribe to. Regardless of how many times you watch an MSM video, whether it's on the internet or not, you're not going to learn A THING about the actors. It also talks about the "battle", as you put it, when there really IS no battle. Talent is Talent. Period. MSM has no corner on the market of TALENT, and it never will, merely by its own proceeses of selection. If you're physically unattractive, or are deemed unmarketable for some other reason by the powers that be, you can have all the talent in the world, and you're not going to end up on television. Yes, there are roles that call for goofy guys or overweight girls or what-have-you, but for the most part, when you look at MSM shows, you see attractive, in-shape, intelligent (according to the script) individuals. By self-definition, MSM excludes the vast majority of the population. Internet distribution makes it so that someone with talent can express themselves without having to go to casting calls or having headshots or acting lessons or a degree in ANYTHING at all. That leaves tons of talented people "in the wild" with the ability to make anything they want and distribute it world-wide on the same day that they create it. How many times have you ended up in a park somewhere, and there was some musician that was clearly more talented than people you've heard on records and you wondered "How come THIS person doesn't have a deal?" Maybe they don't want on, but maybe they weren't OFFERED one, because they're not seen as marketable. At this point, it doesn't matter. They could do a world-wide concert every single week. -- Bill C. http://TheLab.ReelSolid.TV --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article1572023.ece?openComment=true > > "The video website created by NBC and News Corp is a statement of > belief in the power of the professional to stand up to amateur video" > > Its a strange article that threw me completely in the last paragraph > and left me unsure exactly what it was saying. Some of the old > criticisms and attitudes about personal video, wishing to paint > amateur vs professional as a battle, seemingly hoping to see a version > of youtube thats stripped of professional media, and suffers massively > as a result, proving how insignificant amateur video really is. But > then acknowledges the potential of democratic distribution and > individual star-power at the end. > > Wibble! > > Steve Elbows >
