ideas: on media
Blog off, you still need journalism
I’ve managed to enter the blogging brigade without ranting on what I REALLY think of blogging. It’s time we got to the point. Old media, or at least old media delivery models, is almost completely redundant. Is blogging the future? God I hope not. At least in its current form.
Porno at risk from Rev Lovejoy!
There’s been a great deal said about the Federal Government’s half-fisted, nonsensical attempt to censor the world wide web. Certainly with more authority than I could begin to say. What’s been starkly missing from the debate on a smut-free internet are proponents for smut. The deviants who Google-up all sorts of nasty sexual material for their own titillation. The sordid night owls who log-on to get-off. You know, from time to time, all of us.
Frontline of TV still pale imitation
There is nothing more to say on commercial so-called current affairs television. It is like shooting fish in a barrel, as easy a target as the petty crooks pursued by these programs. But debate over the worth of these programs, and the model in a cutthroat commercial environment, is redundant.
A great interviewer, or human
About 45 million Americans tuned in for the first of a series of interviews between British TV personality David Frost and disgraced former president Richard Nixon. Watching Ron Howard’s thrilling film Frost/Nixon, an adaption of Peter Morgan’s play, it’s not hard to see why. Frost/Nixon is a great piece of journalistic drama, built as an intellectual battle to the death, yet ironically focused on the fact the prosecutor was not a journalist. I found some interesting parallels and morals.
The importance of ideas
“Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.” Those are the words of pioneering American newsman Edward R. Murrow. I love the quote, and his many others like it. It may sound a particularly high-minded agenda for what will inevitably be another inconsequential blog-of-consciousness. But I reckon it’s a good place to start.
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