When do you think it'll be the media that controls news?
I can imagine media merging with entertainment...
Executives paying thousands just for a car-chase scence
Millions for a shootout, murder, rape...
anything to get their hands on a sexy story.
My random thought, your opinion...
Santa Barbara
24-01-2005, 06:31
Yesterday.
Nation of Fortune
24-01-2005, 06:33
I can imagine media merging with entertainment...
Executives paying thousands just for a car-chase scence
Millions for a shootout, murder, rape...
anything to get their hands on a sexy story.
My random thought, your opinion...
I think it will be pretty soon, considering how much exstensive coverage they do already. They did an ungodly number of episodes on the lacy peterson trial
a minimum of 10 years ago. Probably more.
(they do pay for stories.)
Greedy Pig
24-01-2005, 07:14
When the tv starts telling me I'm happy.
Eutrusca
24-01-2005, 08:15
They did an ungodly number of episodes on the lacy peterson trial
Didn't they though? I got so damned SICK of hearing about that! That and the damned idiocy with Michael Jackson! Grrrrrrr!
Nation of Fortune
24-01-2005, 08:18
Didn't they though? I got so damned SICK of hearing about that! That and the damned idiocy with Michael Jackson! Grrrrrrr!
I didn't even watch the news and I heard about it like 50 times at least
It's just wrong, that someone could air so much about it
Eutrusca
24-01-2005, 08:56
I can imagine media merging with entertainment... Executives paying thousands just for a car-chase scence Millions for a shootout, murder, rape... anything to get their hands on a sexy story.
My random thought, your opinion...
Um ... I was under the distinct impression that the media already controlled the news ... that news had already merged with "entertainment." Learning has at least partially done so as well; they even have a word for it: "Edutainment."
Passive Cookies
24-01-2005, 09:04
Um, if by "media" you meant "news media", then sadly television news has already begun it's evolution into a mess of entertaining stories. The larger corporate news networks have lost most of their credibility in recent years. Sellouts.
Dobbs Town
24-01-2005, 09:26
I dunno, I'm thinking of Robert Sheckley's 'the 10th victim', or even Max Barry's 'Jennifer Government'.
It's not far off. Not far at all.
Alinania
24-01-2005, 09:43
It's not far off. Not far at all.
Is that so hard to believe?
Dobbs Town
24-01-2005, 09:47
Is that so hard to believe?
No, I thought thas was rather my point, it's not at all a hard thing to believe.
Alinania
24-01-2005, 09:51
No, I thought thas was rather my point, it's not at all a hard thing to believe.
Sorry. I don't get subtle hints in the morning. Ah, let's be honest I don't get any sort of hints before 11 am ;)
HeadScratchy
24-01-2005, 09:52
I can imagine media merging with entertainment...
Executives paying thousands just for a car-chase scence
Millions for a shootout, murder, rape...
anything to get their hands on a sexy story.
My random thought, your opinion...
The media already controls the news, and news (TV news at least) threw journalistic integrity to the wind to merge with (more like "get devoured by") entertainment a long time ago.
At the risk of sounding cliche, I think the more important problem is that big corporations control the media, and thus influence what gets covered on the news.