Saturday, January 07, 2006
death race 2000
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/sports/football/07redskins.ready.html
this article has larger implications than whether the budweiser hotseat is really hot or not (BTW what is with the cheap, roundtable time wasting on sportscentre? The imaginary playoffs between USC and the greatest teams of all time made me want to live on a gravel bar in alaska. Bring back highlights. In Canada, they devoted 22 min. to the Wolrd Junior Hockey championships today. amazing.) the article is nominally about what an ass Dan Snyder (Redskins owner) is, but it does bring up larger issues about the purpose of the media and what that purpose will be in a decentralized information environment. For those of you too lazy to read the piece, the redskins, in response to what the p[receive as negative media coverage from the post, have simply started putting out their own news on thier own website and declinign interveiws with the "hostile" press. This action opens up the dystopian possibility that this decentralized environement in which anyone can have a voice which bloggers hail as egalitarian and good for the "little guy" will actually just generate cheap vertical integration for the power players. As corporations, federal agencies or whatever are able to produce their own news, most of our news will be even less skeptical of the status quo than it already is. and the line between news and advertising will continue to blur. It is already pretty blurry given the paid punditry of No Child Left Benhind. Somewhere, Karl Rove is hyperventilating like a pre-teen girl at a Ryan Cabrera concert. (You love that mental image. My infinitely wise 10th grade english teacher told me that imagining small, absurd things makes surviving the day much nicer. Unfortunately, she spared the rod on editing my work, and here before you stands that hubris writ large in typos.)
this article has larger implications than whether the budweiser hotseat is really hot or not (BTW what is with the cheap, roundtable time wasting on sportscentre? The imaginary playoffs between USC and the greatest teams of all time made me want to live on a gravel bar in alaska. Bring back highlights. In Canada, they devoted 22 min. to the Wolrd Junior Hockey championships today. amazing.) the article is nominally about what an ass Dan Snyder (Redskins owner) is, but it does bring up larger issues about the purpose of the media and what that purpose will be in a decentralized information environment. For those of you too lazy to read the piece, the redskins, in response to what the p[receive as negative media coverage from the post, have simply started putting out their own news on thier own website and declinign interveiws with the "hostile" press. This action opens up the dystopian possibility that this decentralized environement in which anyone can have a voice which bloggers hail as egalitarian and good for the "little guy" will actually just generate cheap vertical integration for the power players. As corporations, federal agencies or whatever are able to produce their own news, most of our news will be even less skeptical of the status quo than it already is. and the line between news and advertising will continue to blur. It is already pretty blurry given the paid punditry of No Child Left Benhind. Somewhere, Karl Rove is hyperventilating like a pre-teen girl at a Ryan Cabrera concert. (You love that mental image. My infinitely wise 10th grade english teacher told me that imagining small, absurd things makes surviving the day much nicer. Unfortunately, she spared the rod on editing my work, and here before you stands that hubris writ large in typos.)
# posted by 8yearoldsdude @ 1:14 AM 
