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I've just been watching an interview of Don Hewett on Tavis Smiley. Don Hewett just said that people don't read newspapers to get the news, they read the newspaper to read columnists.
So why read blogs? For the same reason. Good for that.
The interview spent a good deal of time discussing how politics was ruined by television. Hewett spent a good amount of time discussing the importance of the first Nixon/Kennedy televised debate. Sure, it was historical and all that, but his point was that it ruined Christmas.
Not so much Christmas, rather it began a transition to new type of relationship which shifted television news from one in which networks regarded the news departments not as something which acts as a fulfillment of the public service responsibility (due to use of the public airwaves) to a situation in which profit could be gained from such departments. This profit association was further strengthened by the success of 60 Minutes (which Hewett stated has brought in $2.2 Billion in profits over its years).
Television is primarily a delivery medium, the Internet acts as both a delivery and fulfillment medium. The internet has been going from a transition from one which was, years back (wow, someone asked if anyone remembers BBS'? Takes me back), a user driven medium, to a profit based medium.
So with the internet can we have a nice Thanksgiving?
So why read blogs? For the same reason. Good for that.
The interview spent a good deal of time discussing how politics was ruined by television. Hewett spent a good amount of time discussing the importance of the first Nixon/Kennedy televised debate. Sure, it was historical and all that, but his point was that it ruined Christmas.
Not so much Christmas, rather it began a transition to new type of relationship which shifted television news from one in which networks regarded the news departments not as something which acts as a fulfillment of the public service responsibility (due to use of the public airwaves) to a situation in which profit could be gained from such departments. This profit association was further strengthened by the success of 60 Minutes (which Hewett stated has brought in $2.2 Billion in profits over its years).
Television is primarily a delivery medium, the Internet acts as both a delivery and fulfillment medium. The internet has been going from a transition from one which was, years back (wow, someone asked if anyone remembers BBS'? Takes me back), a user driven medium, to a profit based medium.
So with the internet can we have a nice Thanksgiving?
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