Comments on: Formerly Mainstream Media: We’re Falling, We Can’t Get Up, and We Don’t Have a Clue http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/03/13/formerly-mainstream-media-were-falling-we-cant-get-up-and-we-dont-have-a-clue/ The Business End of the Blogosphere Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:44:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: TBlumer http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/03/13/formerly-mainstream-media-were-falling-we-cant-get-up-and-we-dont-have-a-clue/#comment-111171 TBlumer Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:56:33 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/03/13/from-the-were-falling-we-cant-get-up-and-we-dont-have-a-clue-department/#comment-111171 #1, Thanks. They still should be the bright lights (not that people like Jill or myself are -- for a cold shower, look at Alexa traffic). But IMO, and I suspect you disagree, they're so obsessed with controlling the agenda (which they still can, to a fair degree) that they aren't paying attention to how the world is passing them by. Meanwhile, they fail to put resources on some obvious stories (e.g., impact of illegal immigration locally and the anti-illegals movement that started in the wake of Kevin Barnhill's death), and even when they do, they have blinders on. #1, Thanks. They still should be the bright lights (not that people like Jill or myself are — for a cold shower, look at Alexa traffic). But IMO, and I suspect you disagree, they’re so obsessed with controlling the agenda (which they still can, to a fair degree) that they aren’t paying attention to how the world is passing them by. Meanwhile, they fail to put resources on some obvious stories (e.g., impact of illegal immigration locally and the anti-illegals movement that started in the wake of Kevin Barnhill’s death), and even when they do, they have blinders on.

]]> By: bill sloat http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/03/13/formerly-mainstream-media-were-falling-we-cant-get-up-and-we-dont-have-a-clue/#comment-111170 bill sloat Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:40:55 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/03/13/from-the-were-falling-we-cant-get-up-and-we-dont-have-a-clue-department/#comment-111170 Tom: On the media change/decline you are definitely on point. There was a sense in the industry -- at least this is my opinion -- that guys like you and Jilly (citizen journalists, bloggers, internet commentators) were out there somewhere in left field, or, pardon, right field, and they were still the bright lights. They were Vaudeville and you guys were bush. That is my best comparison. And like the end of Vaudeville, movies came, radio came and Vaudeville croaked. Some of the acts switched to the new technologies -- Will Rogers, Bing, Burns & Allen etc. -- but a lot of people on the circuit got left behind. I wish the newspapers, or whatever they are becoming, would adapt and pick up the fresh acts that are performing every day and drawing audiences. I don't think it is going to happen. There seems to be a mindset to protect the franchise, not change or try new, and I mean NEW, ways and things. Tom:

On the media change/decline you are definitely on point. There was a sense in the industry — at least this is my opinion — that guys like you and Jilly (citizen journalists, bloggers, internet commentators) were out there somewhere in left field, or, pardon, right field, and they were still the bright lights. They were Vaudeville and you guys were bush. That is my best comparison. And like the end of Vaudeville, movies came, radio came and Vaudeville croaked. Some of the acts switched to the new technologies — Will Rogers, Bing, Burns & Allen etc. — but a lot of people on the circuit got left behind.

I wish the newspapers, or whatever they are becoming, would adapt and pick up the fresh acts that are performing every day and drawing audiences. I don’t think it is going to happen. There seems to be a mindset to protect the franchise, not change or try new, and I mean NEW, ways and things.

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