television
Media 2.0 – what’s off the table
In ‘saving’ journalism, there’s a tendency to bet the house. It’s time to start thinking about just what we’re trading away. Much has been written about what needs to change to secure journalism business models in the future. But what of the things that shouldn’t? What about a list of non-negotiables, the deal-breakers, the aspects of reporting that should be OFF the table in dealing in a new way of reporting? Let’s start a list…
How Bartlet made me an idealist
The juxtaposition between the fictional White House of The West Wing and the real-life geopolitical events played out on the news stoked a burning cynicism of the political process. More than that, it planted the seed of romantic idealism of how the world should work that continues to nag me every day.
Incompetence, not net, kills media
The recession is not killing Big Media in this country, as the sales department will tell you. Nor is the internet and digital media to blame, as the prevailing theory goes. Media companies in Australia are struggling to make a buck through a lack of imagination. Through short-sightedness. Through commercial timidity, certainly. Ultimately, though sheer management incompetence.
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.
If all you have are big ideas…
And in this fledgling blog dedicated to big (and small) ideas, the very antithesis to why they are important. Angels in America, a Broadway play-turned-Hollywood television mini-series, has had more affect on my than anything else I’ve seen on a screen of any size. Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning script, declared as one of the most important works of contemporary literature, is teeming with ideas. On everything: sex, religion, politics, justice and the so-called American Dream.
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