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Nations Newspapers Wont Be Slayed by Internet Bloggers Anytime Soon
By Jonah Goldberg for New Hampshire Union Leader
May 10, 2005
Some smart netrepreneur should get to work on a parody song titled Bloggers Killed the Newspaper Star. The original MTV generation will get the reference to days gone by when the network ran strange things called music videos. The first video MTV ran was Video Killed the Radio Star. If you havent noticed, that didnt quite pan out. Radio surely has its problems, but its still around.
Meanwhile, MTV is now basically a lifestyle network, running programming remarkably similar to that of PBS, A&E and other adult in the non-porn sense networks. Sure, MTV packages its wares differently, but if you can look past the exposed navels, pierced faces and butt tattoos, youre less judgmental than I am.
But, seriously, MTVs programmers are basically recyclers: The networks vast wasteland of reality shows for wastoids, including Pimp My Ride, " Trippin Punkd, and Cribs, are hardly path-breaking. Networks have been running shows about cars, homes, exotic travel and practical jokes for 50 years. (Does no one remember Candid Camera?) For all their radical chic, MTVs fans are just like the past generations they so desperately want to transcend.
This should serve as a cautionary tale for those who are betting big on the doomsday scenarios being peddled about the implosion of the newspaper industry, as well as to those who await the triumph of the so-called blogosphere. The more the media seems to change, the more its underlying patterns keep reemerging. Theres truly nothing new under the sun.
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=54498
By Jonah Goldberg for New Hampshire Union Leader
May 10, 2005
Some smart netrepreneur should get to work on a parody song titled Bloggers Killed the Newspaper Star. The original MTV generation will get the reference to days gone by when the network ran strange things called music videos. The first video MTV ran was Video Killed the Radio Star. If you havent noticed, that didnt quite pan out. Radio surely has its problems, but its still around.
Meanwhile, MTV is now basically a lifestyle network, running programming remarkably similar to that of PBS, A&E and other adult in the non-porn sense networks. Sure, MTV packages its wares differently, but if you can look past the exposed navels, pierced faces and butt tattoos, youre less judgmental than I am.
But, seriously, MTVs programmers are basically recyclers: The networks vast wasteland of reality shows for wastoids, including Pimp My Ride, " Trippin Punkd, and Cribs, are hardly path-breaking. Networks have been running shows about cars, homes, exotic travel and practical jokes for 50 years. (Does no one remember Candid Camera?) For all their radical chic, MTVs fans are just like the past generations they so desperately want to transcend.
This should serve as a cautionary tale for those who are betting big on the doomsday scenarios being peddled about the implosion of the newspaper industry, as well as to those who await the triumph of the so-called blogosphere. The more the media seems to change, the more its underlying patterns keep reemerging. Theres truly nothing new under the sun.
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=54498
