The Business
Music right now: Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Couldn't sleep. Watched some "South Park." Have a class at 8 AM anyway. "The Daily Buzz" is still an atrocious program that the most backwoods MyNet affiliates should be embarrassed to air.
What's with all the professors stressing weird growth in the internet market? Weird statement to open with, but I have no time to think up something better. But, for example, my Broadcast News prof talks about local affiliates doing netcasts and how cornering that segment of the market is important and blah blah...one minute you stress how TV's going down because of the internet, and how network news isn't as important and prestigious any more, the next it's the computer. That makes enough sense independently, but that would also suggest people are just tired of TV news as well. If I don't watch local news on TV, why do I want to watch it on the internet? Seems like wasted effort to me. Personally, just FYI, my news comes via a USA Today e-mail subscription deal and Google News.
But seriously, it's funny how all this commentary on where "the business" is going comes from people who I'm sure don't see all sides of it. I think for a lot of my professors the internet is still some hobgoblin that's cutting into traditional forms of media for "some reason." I just don't buy that a lot of the traditional means will fall so decisively to the wayside. I'm not a real advocate of just having an antenna on your roof and your hand out the window for weather, but I'm also not one of those people who'd upgrade every time a new format or device comes out. I think for most people, what's out will be fine for a while until they really get stuff right. For example, my textbook for Broadcast History & New Tech class goes on and on about broadband delivery of content and trying to adapt to a world where everything's OnDemand. I forgot who said it on the game show boards, but TV is ultimately a passive medium. There'll still be a market for just flipping around and seeing whatever's on. I don't always feel like popping a DVD...sometimes I just want to catch what's on here, what's on there, etc.
But enough misguided rantings at a quiet 7:20 in the morning. Directed my first Video Production project Friday and it went superbly. Even after two weeks of runthroughs, directors are still hanging on the person who isn't talking. Watching in the studio, or in the control room with a monitor bank you aren't as bored...but I took home one of the scratch tapes from the practice runs, and it's so awkward looking at one person listening to somebody else for so long.
All the other classes are going fine, I guess. I also got a backup anchor position at NewsCentral. Hey hey. Ultimately not looking forward to the work, as I have to cram it in after morning classes and somehow eat lunch between writing it and pre-taping it. Plus, the director of the program wants to make it clear he has the power to kick people out. A lot. Gee, what a team dynamic. It was basically the first thing out of his mouth at the organizational meeting. Lots of anger and intimidation about getting things done a certain way. I love how they can be pricks in a learning environment and then turn around and say, "well in THE BUSINESS it'll be like this." Yeah. If anything, life has shown me that people talk about how things change at stage two, only for you to reach stage two and find things pretty much the same, only now you're taller and have to shave a couple times a week.
Couldn't sleep. Watched some "South Park." Have a class at 8 AM anyway. "The Daily Buzz" is still an atrocious program that the most backwoods MyNet affiliates should be embarrassed to air.
What's with all the professors stressing weird growth in the internet market? Weird statement to open with, but I have no time to think up something better. But, for example, my Broadcast News prof talks about local affiliates doing netcasts and how cornering that segment of the market is important and blah blah...one minute you stress how TV's going down because of the internet, and how network news isn't as important and prestigious any more, the next it's the computer. That makes enough sense independently, but that would also suggest people are just tired of TV news as well. If I don't watch local news on TV, why do I want to watch it on the internet? Seems like wasted effort to me. Personally, just FYI, my news comes via a USA Today e-mail subscription deal and Google News.
But seriously, it's funny how all this commentary on where "the business" is going comes from people who I'm sure don't see all sides of it. I think for a lot of my professors the internet is still some hobgoblin that's cutting into traditional forms of media for "some reason." I just don't buy that a lot of the traditional means will fall so decisively to the wayside. I'm not a real advocate of just having an antenna on your roof and your hand out the window for weather, but I'm also not one of those people who'd upgrade every time a new format or device comes out. I think for most people, what's out will be fine for a while until they really get stuff right. For example, my textbook for Broadcast History & New Tech class goes on and on about broadband delivery of content and trying to adapt to a world where everything's OnDemand. I forgot who said it on the game show boards, but TV is ultimately a passive medium. There'll still be a market for just flipping around and seeing whatever's on. I don't always feel like popping a DVD...sometimes I just want to catch what's on here, what's on there, etc.
But enough misguided rantings at a quiet 7:20 in the morning. Directed my first Video Production project Friday and it went superbly. Even after two weeks of runthroughs, directors are still hanging on the person who isn't talking. Watching in the studio, or in the control room with a monitor bank you aren't as bored...but I took home one of the scratch tapes from the practice runs, and it's so awkward looking at one person listening to somebody else for so long.
All the other classes are going fine, I guess. I also got a backup anchor position at NewsCentral. Hey hey. Ultimately not looking forward to the work, as I have to cram it in after morning classes and somehow eat lunch between writing it and pre-taping it. Plus, the director of the program wants to make it clear he has the power to kick people out. A lot. Gee, what a team dynamic. It was basically the first thing out of his mouth at the organizational meeting. Lots of anger and intimidation about getting things done a certain way. I love how they can be pricks in a learning environment and then turn around and say, "well in THE BUSINESS it'll be like this." Yeah. If anything, life has shown me that people talk about how things change at stage two, only for you to reach stage two and find things pretty much the same, only now you're taller and have to shave a couple times a week.