Do you worry that not following video will make you Out of Touch? I can't stand the stuff and I can feel myself getting more out-of-touch every day but I was never that plugged in to begin with so
\n\n\nI did, but video has become such a thing and not Mattered yet. At least podcasts kind of seem to Matter. I’m old enough to remember a pre-Internet time where important things were hashed out in text and video had a larger, mass-monetizable audience but came in several steps downstream, I’m fine applying that understanding.
Video might have gone somewhere, but Facebook’s Pivot To Video (that turned out to be 100% fake) pretty much killed video for the next generation or two.
I remember Channel One in the classroom and MTV News hits from Kurt Loder, preparing our generation for news in TV package format.
One thing is concern about identity representation mattered back then, too. Family Guy’s “Asian reporter Tricia Takanawa” and “Blacc-u-weather” bits hit because everyone recognized their own market’s minority support staff, because they’re hired in part to satisfy pressure groups that might weigh in on government-administered broadcast licensing.
In Philadelphia there was some local teens’ show that was kinda what signaled Saturday morning cartoons were over, but really its purpose was to give local black kids who had it together some experience so they’d go on to Media Studies at Penn State and become an audio engineer or cameraman or package editor at some station at Wilkes-Barre or somewhere, pull in a good salary, and make the local media apparatus that much blacker.
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