The thing that concerns me most is that, in the digital age, if we fail to make efforts to maintain the value of our content, there is the high possibility for the value to be greatly reduced, as the history of the music industry has shown.
The digital world is one that has sort of a unique characteristic, where it's a place in which it's very easy for the value of content to fall.
RADIO IS DEAD. The once-bright star that was public broadcasting has been destroyed by greed and corproate muscle to the point that even the music that is completely repugnant is positioned to be popular.
Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.
If you go with Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message, as soon as you're hosting a blooper show, you're done.
We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
oh how television diminishes everything.
Television will always err on the side of making something not quite as classy as it could be.
I've seen shows that start to go down the path of fan service, and it really diminishes the quality.
I find television to be a bit like a meat grinder. It's like, you have a cow, you put it through a meat grinder, and out comes a hot dog. It's almost unrecognizable.
I wish more of the web had stayed nonprofit. But the advertising model took over and I think has delivered us to where we are, along with the development of content, which is designed to do nothing else but make you click on it or share it. And I think it's kind of a low goal for content, and I think that's taken us to our current abyss.
