Jonny Goldstein on NPR

April 18th, 2005 · 3 Comments

A letter of mine about vlogging was featured on this week’s “On The Media.” Download MP3 here (25 seconds of audio). On The Media is one of my favorite NPR shows. The hosts are both inquisitive and funny as they probe the always entertaining soap opera of the changing media landscape. My letter was in response to Bob Garfield’s piece last week about The Chaos Scenario (54 minutes long, the “Chaos” segment starts at 37 minutes into the piece), his vision of a media reality in which “The old advertising model collapses before the brave new world is fully prepared…”

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3 responses so far ↓

ryanne // Apr 18, 2005 at 12:26 pm

that’s right baby
spread the vlog vlove.
down with TV!!! (most of it)
Clint Sharp // Apr 18, 2005 at 4:44 pm

I think it will be easy for low cost entertainment to easily transition to content like Videoblogs, or at least syndicated Internet video. What you’re going to have a hard time replacing is shows like CSI, which cost millions to produce, and honestly are worth the money. High dollar media does, at times, produce content worth watching. I’m not giving up my television or my movies yet, but I’m looking forward to empowering more people to create content, because with diversity will come large amounts of really entertaining content.
jonny goldstein // Apr 18, 2005 at 9:31 pm

I agree with you, Clint. There’s something to be said for a large budget sometimes. But I’ll cross that large budget bridge when I get there.

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