Comments on: Reprogramming CBS Evening News http://cultureby.com/2007/06/reprogramming_c.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 23 May 2012 20:32:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: LK http://cultureby.com/2007/06/reprogramming_c.html/comment-page-1#comment-2939 LK Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:09:58 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=470#comment-2939 Well...consider this. For those of us living in Canada we have to put up with what i call 'dude news', exemplified by the CBC program "The Hour". A former Much Music (Canada's MTV) VJ interviews politicans, pop stars, pundits, etc, addressing most of them as 'dude' or 'man', while clad in a studded belt, sporting the obligatory goatee, delivering the news/current affairs bartender style. Nothing personal against the host, who was in fact very good on Much Music, it's just that here we have a great example of what happens when people try to add too much popular culture and personality to the public sphere. Well…consider this. For those of us living in Canada we have to put up with what i call ‘dude news’, exemplified by the CBC program “The Hour”. A former Much Music (Canada’s MTV) VJ interviews politicans, pop stars, pundits, etc, addressing most of them as ‘dude’ or ‘man’, while clad in a studded belt, sporting the obligatory goatee, delivering the news/current affairs bartender style. Nothing personal against the host, who was in fact very good on Much Music, it’s just that here we have a great example of what happens when people try to add too much popular culture and personality to the public sphere.

]]> By: Jude http://cultureby.com/2007/06/reprogramming_c.html/comment-page-1#comment-2938 Jude Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:11:13 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=470#comment-2938 People think it's just the news-reading job that makes us Katie haters. But it's actually because she is also the managing editor of the news. She decides what stories to cover, and how much time is devoted to each. That's where she was totally unqualified, even if she weren't so darned annoying. People think it’s just the news-reading job that makes us Katie haters. But it’s actually because she is also the managing editor of the news. She decides what stories to cover, and how much time is devoted to each. That’s where she was totally unqualified, even if she weren’t so darned annoying.

]]> By: Steve Portigal http://cultureby.com/2007/06/reprogramming_c.html/comment-page-1#comment-2937 Steve Portigal Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:03:06 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=470#comment-2937 It'd be cool if electronic media could take a page from the webby world and figure out how to iterate bits and pieces subtly. Broadway knows how to do this, why can't the news? [or are they doing it and we don't notice?] It’d be cool if electronic media could take a page from the webby world and figure out how to iterate bits and pieces subtly. Broadway knows how to do this, why can’t the news?

[or are they doing it and we don't notice?]

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