What do you think the future of the current broadcast system is?

AX10

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Thu Nov-15-07 12:12 PM
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What do you think the future of the current broadcast system is?

Edited on Thu Nov-15-07 12:15 PM by AX10

Does radio have any future in it, or will it be replaced completely by new technologies such as "podcasts" and instant downloading?

How do we effectively harness the power of the Internet to our advantage in both the political and social realms?

Discuss.

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SteppingRazor

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Thu Nov-15-07 12:13 PM
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1. I don't know if land-based radio has a big future.

But satellite should be around for a while.

The bigger dinosaur is newspapers, not radio.

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AX10

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Thu Nov-15-07 12:14 PM
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3. I agree. Satellite Radio does have a future.

Edited on Thu Nov-15-07 12:20 PM by AX10

Newspapers need to go 100% online or close their doors entirely. Personally, I'd like to see most of them fold up completely, at least on the domestic front. I want to see something for substantive replace the current line-up of newspapers. The Times and the Post are not in the business of hard-hitting journalism. The Wall Street Journal will now be going the same way too, seeing that Murdoch will rape the newsroom and replace it with pro-establishment propagandists.

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SteppingRazor

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Thu Nov-15-07 12:16 PM
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4. I think it would be tremendously bad if most of them folded completely...

since newspapers and magazines do most of the investigatory work in American journalism.

As for them going 100-percent online, the problem with that, of course, is the lack of substantial ad revenue.

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AX10

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Thu Nov-15-07 12:18 PM
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6. Newspapers within the international community v. domestic.

I am not impressed with many of our domestic rags. The NY Times is an example of a bad paper, they have a few liberal writers to give the illusion of it being a "liberal" paper, but still cow-tow to the right wing and smear the Democratic party quite often.

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SteppingRazor

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Thu Nov-15-07 12:34 PM
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9. I'm not talking right or left. I'm talking investigations.

Name any single solitary transgression of the Bush administration. In almost every case, we know about it because of the work of print journalists (and, usually, American print journalists), whether its warrantless wiretapping (NY Times), Abu Ghraib (Seymour Hersh), Extraordinary renditions (The WaPo), and so on.

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AX10

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Thu Nov-15-07 12:21 PM
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7. On-line they could charge a subscription fee and advertisers...

could advertise based upon "web hits".

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SteppingRazor

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Thu Nov-15-07 12:30 PM
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8. Web revenue doesn't come close to touching paid advertising revenue in print form...

and subscription fees for online content are useless, given the fact that subscription-based content can, after viewing, be copied and pasted and disseminated for free by thousands of secondary vendors -- witness the total failure of the NY Times' short-lived "NYTimes Select."

I don't disagree that online is the future of newspapers. But I don't think that we've yet figured out how to make it economically viable.

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Red Zelda

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Thu Nov-15-07 12:18 PM
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5. Me too.

Newspapers have cut their own throats primarily by being full of stupid fluff.
Then they go online and fill their Web pages with ... stupid fluff.
There are so many brain-dead asshats running newspapers now that the industry is doomed.

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Taverner

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Thu Nov-15-07 12:14 PM
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2. Land based media will still be there for emergencies

The internet and sattelite communications are the future of all media, and democracy.

It's how we will, and are beating, Ailes and Murdoch

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endarkenment

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Thu Nov-15-07 03:22 PM
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10. The next big speed bump in the internet

and fiber in the living room, and high speed wireless everywhere, will render 'broadcast media' as archaic as print media.

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1gobluedem

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Thu Nov-15-07 03:37 PM
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11. I hope it takes awhile

Since I work in radio.

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endarkenment

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Thu Nov-15-07 03:41 PM
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12. people still want live media content in their cars and homes

it just isn't going to be delivered exclusively by the traditional broadcast media, and the stranglehold the broadcast conglomerates have on content and delivery is going to go away, at least for a while. That is already happening with satellite radio. Internet into your car is only a matter of time.

You should still have a job in something that resembles radio.

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DFW

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Thu Nov-15-07 03:58 PM
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13. I don't know much about the radio scene in the States

I have been stationed in Europe for years now, and radio is still
very much alive and well here. Back home in the Dallas area, with
the long distances by car and the increasing traffic, I am thankful
for the radio (KERA, the NPR station, is pretty good, and it's all
I lesten to when I'm back home--which is all of 40 days a year, if
that, so it's of no great import.

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