On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
> An interesting post from Doc Searls: > > > http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2011/03/11/earthquake-turns-tv-networks-into-print/ > > Excerpt: > > Television has become almost entirely an entertainment system, rather > than a news one. Yes, news matters to TV networks, but it’s gravy. > Mostly they’re entertainment businesses that also do news. This is > even true (though to a lesser degree) for CNN. > > At NBC.com, you won’t find that anything newsworthy has happened. The > website is a bunch of promos for TV shows. Same with CBS.com, Fox.com > and ABC.com. Each has news departments, of course, which you’ll find, > for example, at Foxnews.com (which is currently broken, at least for > me). Like CNN and BBC, these have have many written and recorded > reports, but no live coverage (that you can get outside the U.K, > anyway, in the case of BBC). Thus TV on the Net is no different than > print media such as the New York Times. None. Hey, the Times has video > reports too. Not really judging by the excerpt. Unless he just turned on his interweb machine for the first time today, he should have long known you don't find news information at CBS.com, ABC.com or NBC.com -- they've been that way since probably before 2000. I only remember CBS ever devoting its homepage to CBS News in the early days of the internet in the mid 90s. It's akin to expecting to find breaking news at a movie studio's website (which is partly what Fox.com used to be devoted to before FoxMovies.com was launched. ). That said, he seems to be a member of the cult of live -- we must have live continuous feeds of everything. Exactly what will that accomplish, besides some voyeuristic gratification for real life disaster porn. They'll likely put up videos and summaries of official statements and progress, but what is gained watching newscasters, bystanders or victims run around with no more information than the rest of us? Let's put up a big flashing neon sign saying LIVE! SENSATIONAL! DISASTERS! -- Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com http://drawing-a-blank.tumblr.com -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
