TMZ CNN OJ and My iPod
September 21st, 2007 by Michael Gray in IPod & PodcastingIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
So I was on the train last night to our monthly Internet Marketers of New York get together and I bring my video iPod with me to catch up on my podcasts. I don’t watch the news on TV or listen on radio, I will occasionally scan Google news other than that if it’s not important enough to make the headlines of any of the social media sites I visit each day, it’s probably not important enough for me to know about (there’s something to be learned from that).
One bit of “conventional” media I do watch is Anderson Coopers 360 podcast. I like Anderson and that wry clever snarky cynical sense of humor, but more importantly I really watch him because it’s available in podcast form, which means I can digest it in the format I want where and when I want (there something to be learned there). Additionally there really isn’t any other general news video podcasts I can find, either because the itunes interface sucks, or no one else is offering one (there is a missed opportunity there)
In the latest broadcast they talked about the OJ theft/arrest scandal. All of the networks CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, BBC, PBS, NPR and everyone else got scooped when the AOL owned TMZ.com (yes AOL) got the audio recordings of the OJ incident first (thats something worth noting).
Is traditional media taking notice that internet sites are beating them to the punch? Do they realize they no longer control the distribution medium and stories like “Don’t Tase Me Bro” are reaching people via YouTube? When your news divisions have lost their edge and start to look more like yesterdays newspaper (literally and figuratively), it’s time to shake things up and make some changes … before it’s too late …
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September 21st, 2007 at 4:37 am
What is to be learnt from that is that we’re turning into a society so obsessed with niche formats and content that we’re making it even easier to be subjected to media control. We’re helping our own devolution =(
September 21st, 2007 at 6:47 am
I think many media networks are jumping onto the trend and will eventually start to use more online style programming as we head to the future.
September 21st, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Don’t lie… you only watch Anderson because he’s a hottie (not nearly as hot as Nancy Grace, but still worth the eye candy).
You raised some really interesting points though. Something I noticed on the SEO industry news front was that during the “Public Relations Train Wrecks in the Interactive Biz” session at SES San Jose, it felt like the old school news editors were scolding bloggers for japping their stories and not being informed enough about the facts. Locally, our newspaper has even gone so far as to put out a terrible viral campaign accusing people that don’t read the paper of being uninformed citizens that others should stay away from! I see fear, lots and lots of fear in highly trained, intelligent and frankly snooty individuals who haven’t learned to embrace this new technology. I’m all for building relationships with credible news sources and giving them the opportunity to break a story. I’m also someone that wishes bloggers would use the AP and standard journalism techniques, BUT we have a new medium that lets stories break at an unbelievable rate. If traditional news sources don’t adapt with the times, they will be compromised to an extent. Just my .02.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:34 pm
The networks are likely trying to make advanced but what if the best news network may just be areas such as Digg? I wish the news followed the model of Digg and just placed the content based on aggregation from the web. Other than that, we’ve been seeing this happening for so long now — look at the old bombing coverage on Wikipedia in the UK. Everything was spreading virally while the news media just couldn’t keep up