Old Media Still Needs to Get Over its Control Issues »
Posted by: cactushair 2 months, 3 weeks agoThe wonderful thing about the Internet is that nobody controls it. And if you can 't control the medium, you can't control the message. Yet industries that are used to control don't like to give it up. Old media is like that. Even in this day and age, its struggle with control issues continues.
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unome22 months, 3 weeks ago
Old Media tries to think for their consumers, telling us thinks like corporate war for profit is good and will protect us. New media in which the consumers participate and think for themselves realize this only produces death and hate, enriches the corporate elite, and that we can be better.
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jimdoze2 months, 3 weeks ago
It might be helpful to think of intellectual paradigms as a form of cultural DNA code. New Media sets the stage for dramatic new multiples of paradigmatic mutations. As with the biological world, most such mutations are not/will not be positive for the body politic. Some, however, will be. It is/will be interesting to watch humandkind deal with, and make choices in, the floodtide of such mutations.
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1-2-Oscar2 months, 3 weeks ago
Are you prepared to make such choices? Many here seem to think that there are no prevailing standards which apply to such a decision-making process. I become very unpopular when I point out that avoiding making choices is not quite the same thing as making good (socially beneficial) choices.
In Nature, the overwhelming majority of the "mutations" you extol are harmful to the species, and are often eliminated in a single generation. but the internet is a place where harmful mutations are replicated willy-nilly, and we are treated endlessly to conspiracy garbage until it takes on a religious cast to some. It may be beneficial to question each conclusion derived, but it is wasteful to raise the same useless question "ad infinitum."
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jimdoze2 months, 3 weeks ago
The devil can be in the details 1-2. What may be commonly thought of as "good (socially beneficial) choices", given some common intellectual paradigms, may not necessarily be good for the body politic. What makes it truly interesting to watch is that we all, individually, tend to think we know what's best.
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tkyrchncs2 months, 3 weeks ago
If you are not "prepared to make such choices" what are you doing HERE? You make the same choices anyway, but choices of newspaper/magazine/tv programming, etc., are way more limiting, unless you subscribe to a large variety of such publications or spend a lot of time in the library. I certainly trust myself more to make the choice of what issues are important enough for my "front page" than the editors of any newspaper. And here I have you, and others quite different from myself and from you, to help me by pointing out other sources and other opinions. That's something Rupert Murdoch will never give us.
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1-2-Oscar2 months, 3 weeks ago
The proposition that "Old Media" has exercised effective thought and/or information control and that it seeks to extend such control to the internet is a pernicious fiction.
You are controlled to precisely the extent which you permit. The biggest problem is that you accept some agents of control and vigorously defend that acceptance without questioning whether you have been given useful (and accurate) information to start with. MoveOn.org and Rupert Murdock's media empire have a lot in common. They both advance an information set for you to "believe," both have selfish motives in doing so, and neither gives a damn whether you will benefit.
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Leemck022 months, 3 weeks ago
1-2-Oscar, I have to disagree. All that money invested in marketing is for a reason. If you ever take a formal sales course that will also change your mind. I know for a fact, an organization that has been taking data on from individuals for a couple of decades, their survey gives them feedback; the goal is so they won't invest a lot of money in someone who is not cut out for the task. They can tell you all about yourself for your test results. I had a sales person who came to my house pushing those loans. If I didn't have a background that allowed me to see the path to a close, I may have gotten on board as well. The 'extent you permit' sounds good, but training is a powerful advantage over the untrained. The matter of questioning is very valid, but this stuff is subtle. Out of the clear blue, NBC's Today Show took time to inform us that Oprah's popularity is slipping. I never watch the show but I wonder where that came from? Are we approaching the General election?
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Endoscopy2 months, 3 weeks ago
The dinosaur media is very left wing and dying. ABC, NBC, CBS, NYT, etc. Their news as very far to the left. That angers a large segment of the population. It is why FOX has come on strong along with talk radio. Air America is just hanging on. Where there is competition for ratings and buying a paper these institutions are having great problems if they are one sided.
The web allows complete freedom of expressing any point of view. This site for example has people of everypolitical persuasion that can say how they think and feel about a wide range of issues.
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Lurch2 months, 3 weeks ago
and corporatocracy is just another word for good ol` fashioned Mussolini-esque fascism.
Endo and others like him need to be reminded at all such rants that Fox viewers flunk the reality test each and every time in comparison to all those so-called left-wing media (which anybody without blinders on too tight would know is not true anyway).
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Charlson2 months, 3 weeks ago
MSM has long ago abdicated their responsiblity to report the news towards entertaining their viewers with the news. That was the beginning of the end for news respectability.
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Leemck022 months, 3 weeks ago
Cleare, the assumption of accuracy is the greatest deception. I offer you to consider our government established a 'Disinformation Agency' because of that sort of thinking. Agents as moles could attend our universities or get positions of note and publish in Time, Wall Street and others with misleading studies or articles that promoted sympathy to causes not in America's best interest very effectively. What you hear or don't as a matter of timing is a factor. What's the point of McCain and Bush taking pictures? Images, people want your mind; where it goes, your butt will follow.
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ETproductions2 months, 3 weeks ago
Lou Dobbs tonight had a coterie of his sycophants on to help him reply to Obama's speech targeted at the Dobbs' inspiration of hatred of immigrants and linking it to spike in attacks on Hispanics.
One of the talking heads actually said that Obama should be smarter than to pick a fight with the guy who owns the microphone. Yes, they still think they own the only microphone there is.
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Leemck022 months, 3 weeks ago
The media, the Fourth Estate, given Constitutional protection for free speech. It's up there with the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches in concept of democracy. It sucks, with the propaganda. It's not always about lies or truth but deception. Someone to tell the facts but they lead the public astray. Media play got us in Iraq, to accept Katrina, to do little with an election suspect of fraud, 8 Billion in cash from the Treasury missing with not more than a whimper, Enron; you know the list. We get this Conservative and Liberal label, left and right wing on issues but not the prospective so we know exactly what happened and who done it. Why is it that I can hear a speech on C-Span for myself and get a totally different account from the media elsewhere; who don't tell the news but specialize in spin? Need I say more? Vote for change.
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