Oringially printed: 1/22/08
Am I the only one that notices just how lazily old media has been piggy backing on new media to try to seem "hip" and "in the know"?It always comes off like hearing your mother try to use slang properly, alienating and wrong.
Why do respected news organizations find it necessary to write story after story about Second Life, why do I keep on seeing recycled YouTube videos on TV shows.
I remember a time not to long ago when I could turn on a TV and watch a well written show, okay not well written, but it wasn't shot on a grainy cell phone camera.
What I also appreciated is that my disposable entertainment didn't mesh with my TV or movies.
Now there is a parade of movie that looks like they were lifted right off of Break.com.
Even greats like George Romero are falling into this pit. His new movie Diary of the Dead is shot to look like footage caught on a camcorder,While a group of good looking young people talk about their feelings.
Why can't we go back to a time where no one felt that just because they had feelings they were important enough to be heard?
Why can't movies be happy being their own genre without trying to imitate bored college kids with webcams?
The worst is when shows lazily play the same clips all your friends have sent you in secession and call it original. VH1 is one of the biggest offenders with their Web Junk series.
If it's junk then why show it?
Why bother showing the most popular of clips, these are the ones that everyone has seen before.
If anything they can at least strive to show something new or - gasp- make original content.
It doesn't make sense , TV wants to get back viewers lost to online content.How is showing the same content repeatedly, which will only bring more people to the site that originated it, bring viewers back to TV?
While this might break the hearts of all the "webcelebs" out there, but there is a good reason why they are internet famous and not actually famous, this is perfectly explained by the career (or lack there of) of one Miss Tila Tequila.
The things makes one a scream on Myspace doesn't translate well to other facets of entertainment.
Generally making you just plain annoying especially when you can't sing, dance, act or doing anything other than swing on a pole and have oddly shaped implants.
Women of that caliber should stay on the hoods of imported cars and off of my television screen.
Now when mindless entertainment gets lazy I'm annoyed but not as disappointed when respectable news sources fall into the same routine.
Every month or so I catch some news organization that I once respected falling for the hype around Linden Lab's dull and sometimes downright bizarre Second Life.
Second Life is one line joke for most in the MMORPG playing field, if a bunch of ever-virgins aren't taking this seriously why on earth is CNN or MSNBC?
These news organizations are clamoring to classify and report on something that most likely won't even be here in two years. What for?
Even G4TV, a channel that is dedicated to mindless web junk, doesn't want to report on what they called "Second Hype".
Every over hyped report just feeds into the whirlpool of frivolousness that is Second Life. These organizations don't have to pander to this media hungry void.
It seems like every time Linden Labs has a new press release suddenly news outlets care, trying to be the most "in the know" organization.
Well, in actuality those in the know, know that the average Second Life user only spends under fours hours a month online, in fact according to the Yankee Group , global connectivity experts "less than one percent of the total Resident population engages in the site [Second Life] in a regular and sustained fashion."
I have yet to see World of War Craft or GaiaOnline.com written about monthly in economic news.
No matter how you feel about these sites, you can't deny the fact that they are pulling in a lot more unique visitors than Second Life.
Where is the media hype about that? So why aren't they seen as news to the trend hungry?
Just because a company says they have the next big thing are you to just believe them?
Sadly with most news outlets, the answer is , "Yes". Lindon labs is having a parade for every press release that these poor gulible old media heads are eating up. Please.
There's nothing I hate more. An educated consumer acting like an air head.
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