Power Of The Press
I recently noticed my Blockbuster story was the number two most read story on Slashfilm. Since the site got upwards of 50K hits/day, last time I heard, I'm encouraged by this, especially since that honor usually goes to Brad Pitt stories and mine usually don't show reader click through, which is what gets counted, as they're often so short the whole story appears on the main page. Also, my stories are not visual, they rarely run with pictures.
What this tells me is that internet readers, though they get sucked in by the same big star appeal as anyone else in our mainstream society, are actually quite hungry to make sense out of the current morass that is our entertainment industry. Don't ever underestimate the power of the media and the US entertainment industry. Other than a tech industry, which is reaching limits it never even foresaw, it's pretty much all we've got, except war, and people are getting pretty sick of even that.
As we've seen our media players get smaller, delivering better quality sound and picture, and more convenient, we've been lulled into a sense of trust toward the content and hardware suppliers. It's gonna take a little (a shitload of) doing to get the word out. The mainstream media didn't touch any of the Grokster story and I'm doubtful they'll even cover a Sony recall, which is unprecedented. The mainstream (or as Jon Newton at P2Pnet calls Lamescream) media is definitely part of the problem here. There is more exposure of Karl Rove than what Sony has been up to for the past few years, the consolidation of the industry to ludicrous proportions as Bush's FCC focuses on turning the internet into a monopolistic Big Brother version of our current TV model.
I was hoping that when they learned that one of the biggest hardware and content suppliers in the world has been caught red-handed going overboard with DRM that compromises PCs to within an inch of their lives, it would be covered, let's say 10% of the coverage we saw on the Peterson case. But, I'm watching Katie Couric now cover some deodorant commercial story in the first half hour of the Today Show. Sooo, at least my conscience is clear.
What this tells me is that internet readers, though they get sucked in by the same big star appeal as anyone else in our mainstream society, are actually quite hungry to make sense out of the current morass that is our entertainment industry. Don't ever underestimate the power of the media and the US entertainment industry. Other than a tech industry, which is reaching limits it never even foresaw, it's pretty much all we've got, except war, and people are getting pretty sick of even that.
As we've seen our media players get smaller, delivering better quality sound and picture, and more convenient, we've been lulled into a sense of trust toward the content and hardware suppliers. It's gonna take a little (a shitload of) doing to get the word out. The mainstream media didn't touch any of the Grokster story and I'm doubtful they'll even cover a Sony recall, which is unprecedented. The mainstream (or as Jon Newton at P2Pnet calls Lamescream) media is definitely part of the problem here. There is more exposure of Karl Rove than what Sony has been up to for the past few years, the consolidation of the industry to ludicrous proportions as Bush's FCC focuses on turning the internet into a monopolistic Big Brother version of our current TV model.
I was hoping that when they learned that one of the biggest hardware and content suppliers in the world has been caught red-handed going overboard with DRM that compromises PCs to within an inch of their lives, it would be covered, let's say 10% of the coverage we saw on the Peterson case. But, I'm watching Katie Couric now cover some deodorant commercial story in the first half hour of the Today Show. Sooo, at least my conscience is clear.
posted by Intervision at 6:58 AM
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