WHO OR WHAT IS YOUR SPIRIT, AND WHO OWNS IT? DOES YOUR SPIRIT BELONG TO YOU OR TO YOUR GOVERNMENT, YOUR RELIGION, YOUR SOCIETY, YOUR FAMILY? CAN WHAT YOU CALL YOUR SPIRIT BELONG TO ANYONE, BE OWNED BY ANYONE, INCLUDING YOU YOURSELF?
Is the news report “Tunisians not afraid to speak up now and determine their future” in the Star newspaper on 14 March, a hidden message or a rare accident in which a credible portrayal of the recent people’s uprising there actually managed to find expression.Many people are aware that the main stream media papers like ‘The Star’ or ‘The New Straits Times’ act as mouthpieces for the BN government. Therefore the piece’s main message about liberated Tunisians is a powerful piece to mock the newspaper owners and the BN government.The journalists and editors involved are not at fault – perhaps they were moved by events in the middle-east and north Africa that they felt the need to express what has been left unsaid by millions of Malaysians.Make no mistake there’s a battle raging for the soul of new media. Not the clichéd war between print and Web or between Silicon Valley and New York, but rather a series of internal battles being fought within nearly every publication. It’s the battle between journalism and churnalism.On on side are things like Demand Media, The Aol Way and the seduction of cheap hackery that is designed simply to generate easy page views and to help investors to sleep at night. On the other side is stodgy, snobby, old-school journalism which needs to find a new online home if it’s to survive the decade. The latter carries with it the seduction of everything Woodward and Bernstein – and is the only way to really build a media franchise that stands for something and can demand Vanity Fair-like ad premiums.No company represents this tug of war more ably than our overlords at Aol, to the point where sometimes the battle rages within a single soldier. No sooner had ad sales guru turned CEO Tim Armstrong laid out his SEO-centric “Way”, and renamed the company’s media properties as “towns” ruled by “mayors” than he pulled an apparent 180, acquiring the Huffington Post and naming its founder Arianna Huffington as head of all content.readmoreBattle Rages On Journalism vs Assholism Chaunistic Malay Prostitute vs Chaunistic Chinese Prostitute for we the Suckers the Customer
WHO OR WHAT IS YOUR SPIRIT, AND WHO OWNS IT? DOES YOUR SPIRIT BELONG TO YOU OR TO YOUR GOVERNMENT, YOUR RELIGION, YOUR SOCIETY, YOUR FAMILY? CAN WHAT YOU CALL YOUR SPIRIT BELONG TO ANYONE, BE OWNED BY ANYONE, INCLUDING YOU YOURSELF?
Is the news report “Tunisians not afraid to speak up now and determine their future” in the Star newspaper on 14 March, a hidden message or a rare accident in which a credible portrayal of the recent people’s uprising there actually managed to find expression.
Many people are aware that the main stream media papers like ‘The Star’ or ‘The New Straits Times’ act as mouthpieces for the BN government. Therefore the piece’s main message about liberated Tunisians is a powerful piece to mock the newspaper owners and the BN government.
The journalists and editors involved are not at fault – perhaps they were moved by events in the middle-east and north Africa that they felt the need to express what has been left unsaid by millions of Malaysians.
Make no mistake there’s a battle raging for the soul of new media. Not the clichéd war between print and Web or between Silicon Valley and New York, but rather a series of internal battles being fought within nearly every publication. It’s the battle between journalism and churnalism.
On on side are things like Demand Media, The Aol Way and the seduction of cheap hackery that is designed simply to generate easy page views and to help investors to sleep at night. On the other side is stodgy, snobby, old-school journalism which needs to find a new online home if it’s to survive the decade. The latter carries with it the seduction of everything Woodward and Bernstein – and is the only way to really build a media franchise that stands for something and can demand Vanity Fair-like ad premiums.
No company represents this tug of war more ably than our overlords at Aol, to the point where sometimes the battle rages within a single soldier. No sooner had ad sales guru turned CEO Tim Armstrong laid out his SEO-centric “Way”, and renamed the company’s media properties as “towns” ruled by “mayors” than he pulled an apparent 180, acquiring the Huffington Post and naming its founder Arianna Huffington as head of all content.readmoreBattle Rages On Journalism vs Assholism Chaunistic Malay Prostitute vs Chaunistic Chinese Prostitute for we the Suckers the Customer
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