(katie couric emoting)Aside from emo-newscasting, what were the most memorable media moments in 2006?
A sp!ked-online.com article tells of a new current in news reporting: "Emo-News." While reporting on the Ipswich murders, where the murderer was found by British police via the killer's profile on MySpace.com, writer Mick Hume says
"[the TV report] ended with her telling the studio anchor that, whilst it had been ‘exciting’ to get there first, it had turned out to be ‘really quite emotional… a horrifying case for the police, a horrifying day for the media’. Objective news reporting is a casualty of this sort of reality TV coverage, where journalists imagine themselves taking part in the story rather than simply reporting it."
At the same time though, CBC.ca editor-in-chief Tony Burman asks, at the end of his 5 defining moments write-up, What do you think?
"A lesson from 2006 is that news is no longer a sermon,
but a conversation. And you control the information age."
but a conversation. And you control the information age."
You=Women?
Are women going to have a say in the control of information, or in this "exchange" these male writers are now proclaiming has taken over information production/consumption?
Granted, women are taking over the means of production à la Riot-Grrrl -Manifesto-cum-Marxism in the form of blogs and citizen journalism. It even reaches further into other subculture, like the T-Shirt Surgery circles borne of livejournal. But I'd say we're far from the tales Hume and Burman regale us with. Looking at the reaction from Katie Couric's emoting on the TV screen over the death of Ed Begley and the discreet tears of Dan Rather over the Iraq "situation."
When Time proudly announced its 2006 person of the year, did they include chicks? More importantly, did they consider the men and women who don't have have access to technology? Though the digital divide often leaves out women, it more often leaves out entire provinces of marginalized people—in tons of communities all over the world, North America and beyond.
More reading about digi-vide
Bridging the digital divide: opportunity for growth for the 21st century
digitaldivide.net
Lip Magazine article: calling for better indymedia
Granted, women are taking over the means of production à la Riot-Grrrl -Manifesto-cum-Marxism in the form of blogs and citizen journalism. It even reaches further into other subculture, like the T-Shirt Surgery circles borne of livejournal. But I'd say we're far from the tales Hume and Burman regale us with. Looking at the reaction from Katie Couric's emoting on the TV screen over the death of Ed Begley and the discreet tears of Dan Rather over the Iraq "situation."
When Time proudly announced its 2006 person of the year, did they include chicks? More importantly, did they consider the men and women who don't have have access to technology? Though the digital divide often leaves out women, it more often leaves out entire provinces of marginalized people—in tons of communities all over the world, North America and beyond.
More reading about digi-vide
Bridging the digital divide: opportunity for growth for the 21st century
digitaldivide.net
Lip Magazine article: calling for better indymedia
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