Posts by Geoff Lealand
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The very worse thing about ratings (there are many, many bad things) is the 55+ category ie once you turn 55, then you are lumped together with a 65 year old, a 75 year old, and 85 year old, the near-deed, and the living dead. Has anyone considered that a 56 year old these days might just have very different tastes--and more disposable income--than a 75 year old retiree??
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Another example of Herald stupidity. Last week there was a front-page story about bullying in schools, with the headline "TV to blame", even though the subsequent story said nothing of the sort.
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Ratings schmatings! The figure of 600,000 nightly viewers of ONN is nothing to do with any such figure (at very best a rough estimation; at worse, a distortion of reality) but with the tiny ‘representative’ number of viewers with Peoplemeters glued to TV ONE (or as a TV exec once put, rusted to TV ONE until they pop off).
Until we start to use a different kind of language when talking of ratings, we won’t get anywhere.
Caught the ep of Hindsight on royal visits last week. It was great.
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. Here, unless there is regulation, it will be impossible to unbundle wholesale channels from Sky
Sky just has it too bloody sweet in this country. With their inclusion of advertising on their pay channels, we are effectively paying twice (subscription + time displacement) and they have wilfully given away one of their USPs.
I know of two delightful old ladies who signed up for a 3 year tivo contact because they were worried about nz going digital and missing out on the royal wedding
Still, I would be willing to sign up to a package that censored out any mention of the royal family and their indulgences!
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Er...I am mightily confused by little son of p (as in p minus?) is on about and it is not a good way to start the week.
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There are also a series of “who decides what’s trivial?” questions
Yes...and yes. One cheap shot the popular press aims at Media Studies (more so in the UK than here) is that it is a Mickey Mouse subject. My usual retort is of course it is for any teacher worth his/her salt will study MM as a cultural icon, Disney as a corporation (its role in the commodification of childhood, for example), its role in spreading cultural homegenity etc etc.
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I do my thinking on the internet.
I have said it before but I turn to places such as PA for the kind of conversations which don't happen often enough in the academic circles I move in. I teach Media Studies (courses such as World Cinema, Children and Media and strategies for assisting students in necessary skills such as making a pitch and developing scripts) but I am also appalled that very few of my colleagues watch Media 7, listen to Mediawatch, subscribe to the Media Guardian, participate in Public Address etc It is not that we don't have the time nor opportunity.
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Excellent Media 7 tonight which adds to this discussion.
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I always equate Redbaiter somehow with bedwetter
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How long has the internet been going and we still don't have this?
I kind of like the good old-fashioned nong or blithering idiot