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media trends
Posted by
kerrb
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2005-04-13 03:31 PM
MEDIA TRENDS
Chris Anderson, editor of Wired, has published some media trends
at his long tail site. The fact that something is down does not mean
it's dead or that it will become dead but it's still useful to know
about the trends.
Flat to Down to Way Down:
* Music: sales last year were down 21% from their peak in 1999
* Television: network TV's audience share has fallen by a third since 1985
* Radio: listenership is at a 27-year low
* Newspapers: circulation peaked in 1987, and the decline is accelerating
* Magazines: total circulation peaked in 2000 and is
now back to 1994 levels (but a few premier titles are bucking the
trend!)
* Books: sales growth is lagging the economy as whole
Up:
* Movies: 2004 was another record year, both for theaters and DVDs
* Videogames: even in the last year of this generation of consoles, sales hit a new record
* Web: online ads will grow 30% this year, breaking $10 billion (5.4% of all advertising)
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Bill Kerr
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Re: media trends
Posted by
Anonymous User
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2005-04-14 06:15 AM
I don't understand why you put this on the site, why do we need to know
about these trends? I thoght this site was for talking about
things like Iraq and the left.
samsky
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Re: media trends
Posted by
anita
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2005-04-14 07:35 AM
Samsky, if we don't think about how things are changing we will not understand how to change the world. The media is important if you are about developing and publicising views. It makes sense to know how people are consuming and generating information because we want to both inform ourselves, and in turn affect others.
Bill's posts are ecclectic, but personally I like that. He makes a good contribution to the site and keeps us all honest. As you point out, the site is about Iraq in particular, but the left in general. I think that gives a lot of scope to discuss whatever is on people's mind. Maybe you have some things that you would like to see discussed, or questions. You can't guarantee that people will find it interesting enough to contribute, or that you will get the response you expect, (I rarely do) but it is useful to raise ideas. 
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Re: media trends
Posted by
kerrb
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2005-04-14 03:02 PM
samsky wrote:
I thoght this site was for talking about
things like Iraq and the left.
LastSuperpower is a website for people who want to discuss what it
means to be progressive and left-wing in the 21st century - and where
we can go from here
The above, in bold, is on the home page
There is a link on the home page to the following, which is a work in progress for discussion, not a finished position:
We propose the following as a starting point and welcome constructive disagreement.
- the war in Iraq: the
left has always fought against fascism. We therefore supported the
overthrow of the fascist Baath Party in Iraq. The United
States currently has no choice but to drain the swamps and support the democratization of the Middle East. We are glad about that!
- Palestine: As a consequence of its new drain the swamps policy,
the Bush administration has become the first ever US administration to
acknowledge the need for a Palestinian state.
- philosophy, Marx, Engels, Hegel, dialectical materialism :
in order to change the world we need to understand it. This requires
us to look beneath the surface appearance of things.
- developments in technology and science :
a central part of progress consists of increasing human control over
nature. We are excited by the future and reject the widespread culture
of pessimism and fear.
- globalization:
globalization is the engine of development in the third world - and
development is the answer to world poverty. We wish it was happening
faster.
- green politics:
We reject green ideology because it opposes rapid development, fears
change and romanticises pre-industrial life. In practice, "sustainable
development" sustains only poverty, malnutrion and death.
- capitalism:
On the one hand capitalism is vastly superior to tribalism, feudalism
and fascism. The achievements of advanced capitalism really are quite
spectatcular. Nevertheless it holds back development and progress
because it is based on wage slavery and is therefore incapable of
fully unleashing human potential. So from the perspective of the past
it is progressive - but from the perspective of the future it is
reactionary and deserves to perish!
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Bill Kerr
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Re: media trends
Posted by
kerrb
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2005-04-24 05:52 AM
printing press: once revolutionary but today with the blog we can have our own printing press
“I BELIEVE too
many of us editors and reporters are out of touch with our readers,”
Rupert Murdoch, the boss of News Corporation, one of the world's
largest media companies, told the American Society of Newspaper Editors
last week. No wonder that people, and in particular the young, are
ditching their newspapers. Today's teens, twenty- and thirty-somethings
“don't want to rely on a god-like figure from above to tell them what's
important,” Mr Murdoch said, “and they certainly don't want news
presented as gospel.” And yet, he went on, “as an industry, many of us
have been remarkably, unaccountably, complacent.”
...
In 1995-2003,
says the World Association of Newspapers, circulation fell by 5% in
America, 3% in Europe and 2% in Japan. In the 1960s, four out of five
Americans read a paper every day; today only half do so
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3896039
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Bill Kerr
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