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Men Are Such Fools
Reality show made the wanna-be star?
There are three things that I find addictive: chocolate, cigarettes and reality TV. The first two are understandable, but I question my moral character when I find myself sitting in front of the television on Wednesday nights watching the wanna-be stars on “Big Brother” trying to work through their serious commitment issues.
I don’t feel any connection to the characters; I don’t like them and find them all incredibly stupid, but I can’t figure out why I keep watching. Maybe it’s to see what they will do this week; maybe it’s because I have nothing better to do. After the show’s over, I look at my clock and realize I just wasted an hour of my life doing something I wouldn’t even confess to a priest. After this revelation, I start to think about these shows in general, and then it hits me: This stuff has been around long before “reality TV” was even a part of the vocabulary. It’s been sneaking up on us all along, and I think we are now beginning to realize that it has the potential to go way too far.
They are seemingly everywhere across the vast landscape of prime-time television: reality “performers,” hordes of wanna-be stars, most with no talent beyond a seeming willingness to do anything to get on camera.
They sing, they dance, they date, they cook, they make clothes, they model clothes, they eat bugs, they eat nothing, they get fired, they expose themselves to all kinds of physical hardship and emotional humiliation.
Reality TV right now is pushing decency to the edge, but still hasn’t crossed into the territory of flat out irresponsible and destructive television. However, I think it’s getting close to the time when we need to change the channel. On second thought, screw it, I’m going to go read a book.
How about you?
Does bad news sell better?
It is my view that the fascination with bad news is a true instinct in humans, in that we do it automatically without knowing our true motives.
I think it is an instinct whose purpose is self-preservation. Anytime something bad or dangerous happens, it is to our benefit to learn from it. By observing these events, we store up knowledge which may be useful in saving our own lives someday.
Of course the instinct, though useful, is not rational. It doesn’t know which of the disasters and mishaps we witness may be relevant to our own lives in the future. We are fascinated by all of them, even totally unrealistic disasters in movies.
Understanding the purpose of this instinct, I think we can make better use of it.
If there is anything out of the ordinary, people want to hear about it. That is news that will seL.
Old Media vs. New Media
A main reason why people are abandoning print sources is time. With technology making everything faster these days, people operate faster. The internet offers information and resources faster than any form of paper. Less and less people are finding the time to sit down and read a good book or flip through a paper. We are more flexible and no longer settle for the morning paper or that monthly magazine.
When the radio came in the early 1930s, everybody felt that newspapers would become obsolete. When television came in the 1950s, people and even experts felt that nobody would get the time for or feel the attraction of the written word. But everyone was wrong. Each media has managed to create its own time and space across cultures and around the world. However, the print media too, be it the newspapers or books, has been able to hold its own.
Print will never completely die. We, as humans, love to hold physical things in our hands. Sure some publications may die out, and lots of advertising might be going digital, but we will always need print media one way or another.
If you actually think about how much mail and magazines are out there in todays world it’s clear evidence that print is not dying, its just changing.
Google Wave
One hundred thousand users were given invitations toGoogle Wave the next new social media tool that has gotten lots of attention on how it will affect journalism and change the way journalists do their job.
Just asTwitter is a tool for journalism, Google Wave will be at the forefront of conversation until everyone has had their crack on it. Stephanie Hannon, a project manager for Google Wave, said that it is definitely a tool journalists can use to collaborate with others and that a revision history tool will soon become available to look back at any moment that was published on the web.
Los Angeles Times had a lot of helpful comments on the ways that Google Wave might change journalism, such as introducing live editing, increasing transparency in the reporting process and being able to participate in conversations as you’re reading and potentially creating instant polling.
Another interestin idea is being able to have a virtual forum where witnesses and reporters can share and contribute news and photos in one frame.
Since the invites are rare, even if you get one you are only allowed to send it to eight other people, so the hype over this new tool is going to last awhile.
What do you think? Do you think Google Wave will change journalism?
http://wave.google.com/
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