There’s also an interesting generation gap growing between old media, which is either aging or dying, and new media, which gets stronger by the day. Today’s kids — and kids are what make everything popular — don’t seem to be as judgmental as their parents. They want to see Portland center Greg Oden naked and the drunk photos of Texas center fielder Josh Hamilton just for the voyeuristic pleasure in it, not necessarily to judge it. And old media can’t keep ignoring those kind of desires, not if it wants to survive. It is hard not to notice that newspapers keep going out of business while TMZ Sports is scheduled to open this year.
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| — | Interesting take from Dan Le Batard, a sports columnist, which can applied to many other areas of journalism. This paragraph pretty much sums up my opinion on most big celebrity stories. I followed the Tiger story just because of the twist and turns and all of the amazing stuff that came out, not because it was a travesty and I was outraged and because I thought he owed me an apology. No, it’s his life and it’s problem to deal with, I’m just the one slowly driving by the car wreck. |
