It wouldn’t be all that hard to convert this blog into a small TV show. A DV camera, Final Cut Pro, Quick Time and I would be in business. And if enough of you click on those ads at the side and bottom of this page, I just might do it. It would be extreme narrowcasting, the audience would be only people who cared about me, but it would be computer television. I could call it Narcissus TV.
This is yet another version of the future of film and TV. Why can’t we have all have our own TV stations? I could link to all the TV shows I like- I have watched Lost on my computer- legally and for free at ABC.com. I can watch live baseball games at MLB.com. Budweiser has Bud.tv and GE has GE Imagination Theater on its website. A former student of mine has Godcam.tv http://www.godcam.tv/ an episodic show. I am not talking You Tube here, these are legitimate original programming. Who needs the networks or cable?
In 1961 Newton Minnow, FCC Chairman said this, “But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you–and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.”
Has anything changed, except we have more channels of nothing?
In honor of Patriot’s Day, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots_Day let’s start the Narcissus TV revolution. Are you with me or agin’ me?
PeterH
