[lit-ideas] Re: condensed news cycles
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 14:01:37 -0700
> THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING NEWS CYCLE
>
> How condensed news cycles affect story selection and production and what
> that means for you
Yes, blogging is killing the traditional media.
There's also "personal-story-as-news". This trend has a major impact on the
media. Large
complex issues are ignored. The insurgency in Iraq grinds on, there's global
warming, the
Vietnamese bird flu, $102/barrel oil, and dozens more really serious news that
will affect
us.
But we get: Paris Hilton, Jacko, Schiavo, and the Pope.
Interestingly, all of these are marginal people. They're social freaks. Michael
Jackson, in
his 40s, lives as a boy-child. Schiavo has been brain-dead for 15 years. The
pope is
completely disconnected from any sort of daily life. And so on. Yet they
dominate the media.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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