Do you know the struggles of women being a journalist or being in the media. Women were restricted before by custom and law from access in journalism occupations. But as years past women were began agitating for the right to work in media. Being a journalist is not an easy job. It is hard and life-threatening work.
Imagine how the women journalist struggles in covering a war story or news. It's not new anymore that media networks allows women journalist to go and report about different wars or disasters happening worldwide. As long as there's a news journalist are on the go. There is a discrimination between men and women journalists when it comes in reporting and covering stories but why does in journalists killings there is none.
So, apparently Old Media is dying. The following clip from this week’s Daily Show very enthusiastically discusses some of the difficulties traditional forms of media currently face. More after the jump.
Is Print a dead medium? Much evidence points to that conclusion; between the massive delays caused by a print publishing cycle (Daily newspapers have a lag time of about 12-24 hours; weeklies can have a lag time of up to six days. Magazines are produced months before their shelve date), the enormous costs of producing a print publication and the immense competition provided by newer media, the so-called “Death of Print” seems inevitable. Yet at the same time, there is some irony in the above clip — television faces many of the problems print does without much of its added value.
Really, the driving evolutionary force in media right now is the Internet. That everyone from CNN News anchors to Washington Post columnists are now on Twitter is just one way in which the established media has tried to make use of this new technology (And rather miserably, at that). Blogging and web-based news outlets like the Huffington Post or the Drudge Report have demonstrated how quickly net-based production cycles can produce late-breaking content without a tenth the overhead traditional media requires. Yes, Broadcast media makes the production speed of Print seem incredibly lethargic, but the mere requirement of Broadcast media to occupy time-slots imposes its own inherent lag-time. To overcome this, 24 hour news channels such as CNN have emerged, but even this is slow compared to Internet distribution. What’s more, to realize the continuous feed required for a 24 hour news cycle, much content is repeated over and over, and quite a lot of it is mediocre at best (Ironically, a continually-profitable topic for the Daily Show is the banality its own medium experiences when conducting a continuous news cycle).
Print has, in my mind, some enduring value. You can archive it short-term fairly easily, you can read it in the bath, leave it on your coffee table for bored guests to read, receive it at your doorstep with regularity. The doom and gloom coming from Print media is, in my mind, more due to the fact they’re not able to create value-added content in the way Broadcast is.
Think of how Red Bull does their sports promotions. A decade ago, nobody had heard of Red Bull and their terrible tasting (yet effective) magic elixor, and now their motocross and airplane slalom events are the modern equivalent of the X-Games in the ’90s. Their use of media is a good example of how Broadcast media are in some capacities more suited for new media applications: every event is recorded and the clips are sliced apart, put in ads, posted on YouTube, replayed on sports channels and more. They get a lot of value from their content. While it may be expensive as hell to have giant air-filled plane racing pylons dotting an entire harbour, it becomes a measured investment when one considers Red Bull’s massive ability to reuse content.
Broadcast news agencies also reuse content quite well. To use a Canadian example, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) has both radio and television news endeavours, both of which are reused as web content. However, they also have a team dedicated to writing web content to supplement video content, while other textual content is provided through wire articles. This use of three media in a single conglomeration is the heart of New media — no longer is it acceptable to be merely a newspaper or a radio station or a television station. The norm is now to be all three.
For a time, Print media was able to use the transferability of text to aid in content proliferation on the web. By this I mean you can place text in RSS feeds and have it proliferate via other web applications (Hotbox’s Smokkr.com website is a good example of this in action). Video was really unwieldy and it would take users hours to download a single clip. Now, with Flash-based video streaming sites like YouTube and the proliferation of high-speed Internet access, video is as accessible as text. This means competition between the two media is now as vivid on the Internet as it was in the meatspace a half century ago. But to portray it as such is to really miss the opportunity provided by Internet media — the ability to transcend medium-created barriers and creatively juxtapose related work in a single content frame.
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Recent video coming out of the Coachella shows a naked man being forced to the ground for refusing to cooperate with police and put on his clothes, then being tasered — to the booing of a large crowd that had gathered and was filming the entire thing. As the violence escalates, the videographer can be heard saying:
"Freedom of speech, holmes! The world is watching!"
Re:"The Whole World Is Watching" Apr 30 2009 23:49:06
Well I agree that the dude probably deserved to be arrested or at least escorted out of public, there were three fairly large cops surrounding an obviously unarmed man who wasn't exactly throwing fists. I would have expected the cops to be able to cuff him before they resorted to the Tazer (which was used in excess once they had him on the ground).
It also scares the crap out of me that we have to fight big brother with big brother. But I suppose it's the best way at this point. The average person is caught on a camera hundreds of times a day, yet every time they try and identify a criminal on the news all you see is a blurry figure that looks like a million other people.
A positive in this is that generally cell phones come equipped with easy-to-use, fairly high quality camera's which will make it easier to identify authority-gone-wrongers much easier.
It's time to fight surveillance with surveillance, I guess.
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