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I'm sick and tired of the abuse journalists are getting at the moment. They don't deserve it, at least real journalists don't - ...

23 April 2014

Media People Are Not Normal

Sometimes .. just sometimes .. a picture really does say it all. So it was when I found the shot below on Twitter a few days back, posted by Amy Pyle of the US-based Center for Invesigative Reporting:


Wow. So 'normal people' consume twice as much radio as 'media people', who are instead obsessed with their mobile apps by a margin approaching four to one over general consumers. That's an amazing claim, although entirely in line with my own perceptions.

I reposted the pic, and sparked the biggest response I've ever had to a single tweet.

21 April 2014

On Vision and Reality. Welcome to EPJOT.

Walt Disney was a visionary. After creating an entertainment empire on the back of a cute mouse with circular ears, by the mid-60s he'd become one of the first entrepreneurs of multimedia leisure.

Disneyland - the flickering images made solid - was a huge success in California, but he had a vision to create something much, much bigger; an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow - or EPCOT - in Florida.

Walt was dying of cancer, but he still worked tirelessly on his vision which would have seen an entire city with industrial areas, residential zones and a vehicle-free, climate-controlled 'downtown' all linked by gleaming monorails and futuristic 'people movers'.



He had the plans drawn up, and the architects' models built. It never happened. After Walt's death the plans were scaled back into something not unlike a conventional theme park, albeit with an educational slant. Epcot, but now in the lower case.

So what has all this got to do with journalism?