Frankly, I have had enough of it. Constant star in the news, this long dark night of financial destitution hanging over the world. What a stupid mess we humans go and create. People's life of saving for nothing.
Republicanism used to be an ideal. Now it is avoiding taxation. But our complex world requires it to continue with the progress machine without which we would still be feudal farmers and serfs.
Money is the friction between the relative actions of different humans. Animals are not familiar with it. Objects are exchanged for it, including living things, dead things and things that rush about for us.
Money is that token of one's power that is vacuumed up by everyone else. Money is always wanted, and it seems the more you have of it, the closer you want to protect it. It is like protecting the village from the flames. The closer they get the more you risk by protecting it.
Insurance is a huge business, one that is challenged to inspect those making claims with an eye to detect fraud. Of course. But in so doing, they avert their gaze from their own mistakes. Clearly you can not be an insurer of risk and take risks with the mountains of capital collected for payout in cases of extreme emergency.
Clearly you can not promote high priced products to an audience wondering how it will feed its children. The value of paper can not sustain the multi million dollar spends on a single campaign. The UK give money to the very poor as the government knows they have to spend it. The middle class will silently tuck it away, giving the bank more relief when the tax payer has already forked out grandly.
Advertising is the next aspect of the media that has to adopt a new face to work in the new acoustic economy of regulations and limits. The compulsive gamblers are still ranting about how letting the bad banks fail is the way back to a climbing market. That is like saying the way to solve the common cold is to imprison everyone with a symptom for two weeks. The few survivors will be extremely immune and soon enough the common cold will have less and less to infect. It may work but only due to complete collapse of the world from which rebuilding can start in earnest.
Our world is one we are made aware of by the very astute people in the media. So let us respect their value to the world. It requires a leap of faith.
Someone is going to start charging for online news and information will again have a value. The future of advertising is in the balance. Next read about its terminal destination.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
What is the point of advertising?
We all do everything we can to blank out the adverts on television so much that it spawned TiVo - now ironically being licensed by state owned TVNZ as it sacks a large segment of its staff in preparation for rumoured privatisation along with every thing else the Labour government nationalised. Our banks are mostly Australian so nationalising these is not necessary or possible.
As everyone else in the world knows - TiVo is a the future of TV watching. Or it was. The interesting thing is that selective TV is a larger step away from being able to FF control the offerings of a state channel here that does not produce any but the most asinine and commercial content.
Unlike the BBC who have the moral decency to spend the money they are given by the British public to create programmes that are better than most and tremendously informative.
If I never see another episode of Friends, Buffy or any of the crud dished and then redished as "essential family time viewing", it will be too soon. Nothing wrong with these programmes - it is just the way that they are sliced up by crap ads. It sickens me that the opportunity to excite enquiring minds is in fact peddling soap to the smelly football yobs and the chivs from whatever.
TVNZ remain behind the times. They should just produce great content and sell it to the world. Pretty soon the sense of advertising on the tele will be less compelling as less and less people will prefer the infinite selectitude of internet or cable tv over the last bastion of "you are what you have to watch" - interruptable streaming broadcasts by a monolithic organisation that has no dice.
As everyone else in the world knows - TiVo is a the future of TV watching. Or it was. The interesting thing is that selective TV is a larger step away from being able to FF control the offerings of a state channel here that does not produce any but the most asinine and commercial content.
Unlike the BBC who have the moral decency to spend the money they are given by the British public to create programmes that are better than most and tremendously informative.
If I never see another episode of Friends, Buffy or any of the crud dished and then redished as "essential family time viewing", it will be too soon. Nothing wrong with these programmes - it is just the way that they are sliced up by crap ads. It sickens me that the opportunity to excite enquiring minds is in fact peddling soap to the smelly football yobs and the chivs from whatever.
TVNZ remain behind the times. They should just produce great content and sell it to the world. Pretty soon the sense of advertising on the tele will be less compelling as less and less people will prefer the infinite selectitude of internet or cable tv over the last bastion of "you are what you have to watch" - interruptable streaming broadcasts by a monolithic organisation that has no dice.
Media Failure
During the financial crisis - one thing has become obvious. Since the rise of amateur journalism and self obsession on the internet, rational debate has become confined into smaller circles. This has created a deprivation of authority, a universal disbelief in culture and a new form of social equivalence.
Now the media are writing about the death of journalism after a time when a too ready acceptance of perverse leadership led America down a terrifying path. Now the actions of red-blooded Americans have done more damage to the American dream than terrorism. The media lagged behind bloggers criticizing the actions of the Bush Administration. It was not until after 2004 that mainstream media started to question the Bush agenda. By then it was already too late.
The media had failed to inform the public and it just gets worse. The financial crisis "could not have been predicted", but it was. By many. But the media restrained itself from investigating the biggest crimes in history.
Individuals with no investigative journalism out did the media on many counts. Our respect for media authority has been assaulted. This is entirely due to the dumbing down from talking about facts into talking about celebrity diets and fads that the media felt is necessary as that is what people view on the internet.
Now the media are writing about the death of journalism after a time when a too ready acceptance of perverse leadership led America down a terrifying path. Now the actions of red-blooded Americans have done more damage to the American dream than terrorism. The media lagged behind bloggers criticizing the actions of the Bush Administration. It was not until after 2004 that mainstream media started to question the Bush agenda. By then it was already too late.
The media had failed to inform the public and it just gets worse. The financial crisis "could not have been predicted", but it was. By many. But the media restrained itself from investigating the biggest crimes in history.
Individuals with no investigative journalism out did the media on many counts. Our respect for media authority has been assaulted. This is entirely due to the dumbing down from talking about facts into talking about celebrity diets and fads that the media felt is necessary as that is what people view on the internet.
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