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so there's a new issue of skin two out now.
the funny thing is, i can much remember the articles and cover images from issues from the past year as well as a few years back. new issues get sucked in and added to that extraneous collection of information in my head. yet i realized, when i saw the mailer featuring the new issue's release, i noticed it, then deleted the mail. didn't even bother going to the skintwo.com site. right now, i cant even tell you what the cover image looked like. i was that uninterested. *goes to look* oh yea.that's what it was.
i remember discussing with some people about the future of fetish publications.
a few of them keep trying to start new ones, but then they end up taking a dive.
last night, PBS and a Frontline show on that focused on the News.
Not the news in general, but "What's Happening to the News".
The role of the press. civilian journalists/webbloggers.
Interviews with the heads of the LA Times, the NY Times,
Yahoo, Google, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Craigslist, Daily Kos, ...
the history between the LA Times and the Tribune Company, etc.
There were quite a few interesting parts, but the thing i remarked on, was how something was actually made clear and explained:
Many people, nowadays, still look to newspapers to read the news.
Of course, there's TV but they can go online as well.
Yahoo and MSN were listed as two of the top online news sites. I learned Google has a news search function but no actual content. Aggregators they're called.
The numbers are steadily decreasing though.
Print media is suffering because of the switch to online commerce and advertising. Classified ads (homes for sale, jobs, auto sales, etc) have shifted to online venues. And with them, advertisers have taken their money to where the traffic is.
It all does make sense, and seemed pretty obvious to me.
But what I didn't know about was the importance of the newspaper reporter in all of this.
The newspapers are the ones that hire the journalists that find and write the stories. Sure, Yahoo does have a staff that writes the news as well (the program interviewed one live reporter), but the majority of their stories comes from newspaper sources.
An estimate of 85% of original reporting done in the US is done first by newspapers. But then the websites that are using the newspapers to provide news content are also the ones that are contributing to the decline in newspaper readership and circulation.
oh, and there was a nice mention about the necessity of newspapers/journalism in history and politics. Otherwise, who's going to watch those that are trying to police the public?
Part 3 was last night.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/
hmm.
ok. enough of that.
back to the latex fotos
the funny thing is, i can much remember the articles and cover images from issues from the past year as well as a few years back. new issues get sucked in and added to that extraneous collection of information in my head. yet i realized, when i saw the mailer featuring the new issue's release, i noticed it, then deleted the mail. didn't even bother going to the skintwo.com site. right now, i cant even tell you what the cover image looked like. i was that uninterested. *goes to look* oh yea.that's what it was.
i remember discussing with some people about the future of fetish publications.
a few of them keep trying to start new ones, but then they end up taking a dive.
last night, PBS and a Frontline show on that focused on the News.
Not the news in general, but "What's Happening to the News".
The role of the press. civilian journalists/webbloggers.
Interviews with the heads of the LA Times, the NY Times,
Yahoo, Google, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Craigslist, Daily Kos, ...
the history between the LA Times and the Tribune Company, etc.
There were quite a few interesting parts, but the thing i remarked on, was how something was actually made clear and explained:
Many people, nowadays, still look to newspapers to read the news.
Of course, there's TV but they can go online as well.
Yahoo and MSN were listed as two of the top online news sites. I learned Google has a news search function but no actual content. Aggregators they're called.
The numbers are steadily decreasing though.
Print media is suffering because of the switch to online commerce and advertising. Classified ads (homes for sale, jobs, auto sales, etc) have shifted to online venues. And with them, advertisers have taken their money to where the traffic is.
It all does make sense, and seemed pretty obvious to me.
But what I didn't know about was the importance of the newspaper reporter in all of this.
The newspapers are the ones that hire the journalists that find and write the stories. Sure, Yahoo does have a staff that writes the news as well (the program interviewed one live reporter), but the majority of their stories comes from newspaper sources.
An estimate of 85% of original reporting done in the US is done first by newspapers. But then the websites that are using the newspapers to provide news content are also the ones that are contributing to the decline in newspaper readership and circulation.
oh, and there was a nice mention about the necessity of newspapers/journalism in history and politics. Otherwise, who's going to watch those that are trying to police the public?
Part 3 was last night.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/
hmm.
ok. enough of that.
back to the latex fotos
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