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8 comments:
Yes.
The guaranty for independent media is not that everybody can make it. If you want free media, you have to get them paid by taxes and you have to oblige everyone to pay for it, even those who don't want to watch. Media financed by ads will never be objective.
I don't want to watch world news made by bloggers, because I don't want biased information only. And I don't want everybody to make media and participate in the power of the media, because that could lead to lynch law.
Of course, media under public law is no guaranty at all for a free press - see Italy -, but it's a precondition. And the complete democratization of media won't lead to it but only to the opposite.
Let's take money out of news reporting. Interesting concept. Look at the BBC, I think they are a good model: all TV's sold in the UK pay a tax which funds the BBC. So money is available to undertake news reporting (I'm sorry but it costs money to live in Afghanistan for a year) but here the funding does NOT dictate the content. What dictates the content is sound journalistic integrity. Your blogging is an editorial page. News reporting is that and more. Sound journalism is expensive. It takes time to get the story, write the story, travel to the story, live in the story, and pay for the education you need to understand the difference between good journalism and bad journalism, advocacy journalism, good story telling, these things are not blown out from thin air, with corporations stiffling it. PBS was a little like the BBC, but Americans are too naive politically, poorly educated (no understanding of the meaning of critical thinking) and intoxicated with the desire to consume goods to recognize what they are throwing away when the Right attacks PBS's autonomy.
Just because you can make TV doesn't mean you know how to make TV. I mean, your blogging is appealing, but a wide audience does need a semblance of production values.
That said, I think too many people believe they are reading a free press, when in fact, it is dicated by Coke and Pepsi.
Jean
yes my blog is definately an editorial page.
what i'm getting at in this post
is that a lot of people don't realize the affect that corporations/money givers (ah hem...DOE) have on your media consumption.
i understand perfectly, that to make media, you need money. i've worked in cable access and public television. quality tape stock aint cheap!
i don't have pefect answers as to how media could be changed with or without money. we've been thinking about it a lot being here at the TED conf. with some of the richest, smartest internet creators on the planet (founders of google, ebay, paypal, blogger etc). so how do we fit in and do what we can with no money? or some money/sponsors that wont control our messages/content?
Pepsi and Coke will never be involved with Bullemhead, but I am SERIOUSLY considering making a presentation to Wild Turkey bourbon, because if I was sponsored by them I would save a TON of money. I am not kidding at all. I'm writing my presentation in Word with a "Proposal" template I found online. HA!! The plan is to make one vlog per week with a Wild Turkey reference. I do that already anyway. This will not change my content at all. If they try to, I'll drop them. Simple as that. I doubt they'll accept my proposal anyway. They're from Kentucky.
I too believe that there is tremendous revolutionary potential in the air...but is inherent in the tools, the process or the structures? What is an image recording device anyway? What are the implications for a species that is able to capture time and replay it. I think that the tremendous wave of cultural upheavel must be propelled by a measured balance in regards to time spent with technology. Unplugging every so often is the only way to stay sane. And if we can get a critical mass to adhere to that, then when those folks return to the computer the change that can't be stopped will coalesce into a positive form. Otherwise, if it is just about pushing technology to make us free, then we will be unhuman by 2025.
I just want to say, in a way that doesn't really further the conversation, that i love it that you started talking about money stopped in front of the "Bank of Guam" -- whatever the heck that is. Who knew Guam had its own bank in San Francisco? This is a strange world to live in...
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