Over here in the UK there has been wave after wave of stories that are causing the spotlight of truth to be pointed all over the place.
It started, as best I can remember, when it emerged that some TV phone in competitions were being conducted with very low standards. Things such as viewers being asked to phone in for a chance to appear in next weeks program, when the next weeks program was about to be taped just a few minutes later. Popular BBC childrens programme 'Blue Peter' having a fake winner of a competition because the real one didnt show up. Stuff like that. Most of the networks have been affected and have had to suspend or masively alter these sorts of things. More recently, it has moved onto reality television, and how much truth there is to fly-on-the-wall documentaries, after they've been edited. A big storm erupted on the BBC the other week when it emerged that the Queen had been shown in a misleading light on an advert for a forthcoming documentary. The latest is this story about some survivalist actually spending the night in a motel: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6911748.stm So anyways I doubt these sorts of things are new, but what is new here is the focus on these issues by the media themselves. And as there is a relationship between the credibility, or lack thereof, of traditional media, and both the positive and negative potential of vlogging, I thought Id post about it here. Cheers Steve Elbows
