Cut Cables

[Ed]

Sunset industries always consolidate - TV bad! stop watching! go have
something else in common with your civilization.

On Feb 5, 2008 1:09 PM, Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com> wrote:
>
> Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> >
> >   Alan,
> >
> >     unfortunately, not too many 'tech guys' understand the Media biz
> > all too well.  I'll try to put this into concise terms here:
> >
> >     consolidation = 'information richness'--.
> >
> >     in other words, if media is owned by few- then obviously the
> > overall choices are diminished.  The basis of our information then
> > takes on a less diverse character, and typically in order to maintain
> > this situation, the 'illusion of news' needs to be propagated.  So we
> > fill the viewers heads will all sorts of useless topics like Britany
> > Spears, etc. because we have to report *something* [1] and we employ
> > people with nice haircuts and terse voices to give the illusion of
> > importance,  because without some kind of information to fill our
> > heads, we will have the feeling that we are being uninformed, in which
> > case the program has no or an opposite effect.  The last failsafe is
> > to prevent the 'media consumer' from essentially smashing their TV
> > set.
> >
> >    Martin @ FCC has persued a consistent policy of promoting
> > monopolization of the media, often in direct opposition to public
> > protest.  Specifically Martin's treatment of the newspaper medium will
> > have a drastic effect.
> >
> >    For a background in these topics I recommend reading Walter Lippman.
> >
> >    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lippmann
> >
> >    Also Dan Gillmor is somewhat of a figure in this realm.  He now
> > works at ASU.
> >
> >    http://www.dangillmor.com/
> >
> >   -jmz
> >
> >
> >
> >  [1] And appealing to your reproductive instincts is perhaps the most
> > effective way to provide this stimulus.
>
> Thanks for the information.  I'll look at them later but I think I get
> your gist.  And I agree that less sources of information and so on leads
> to the "illusion of news."
>
> Alan
>
>
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