Sometimes, when you’re trying to blog regularly, and it’s your night to post, life steps in the way. It’s occasionally more important to make a mix tape for your wife than to write a post. And then when you go back to write the post, you don’t care to put any effort into it.
This, friends, results in utter drivel. So I’ve deleted everything I had, and I’m trying again.
Which, ultimately, is refreshing.
As is the episode’s first story, “Newspapers Go to Washington,” in which present and future models of monetizing the newspaper industry are discussed – while avoiding the “Present and Future Models for Monetizing the Newspaper Industry” jingle.
Until the end.
I like to think that there’s a bit of resignation in Brooke’s voice when she apologizes to the interviewee, saying “You know, there’s something that I forgot to do when we have conversations like this.”
I really expected to come out of a discussion of whether the newspaper industry deserves/needs/wants a government bailout with something more of note to say, but frankly, I’m tired of bailouts. There are not many industries that I want to stay afloat badly enough that I want to pay their way out of a hole – without doing so by buying their products.
And that jingle is just bad.
Almost as bad as the fact that the whole AT&T/Apple/Google Voice controversy never occurred to me as a net neutrality issue until Brooke explicitly stated it as such.
Nor had it occurred to me until Brooke mentioned it that ISPs like AT&T or Comcast don’t like net neutrality, because they insist that they can’t afford to bring more bandwidth to the customers unless they charge the online services (which are why customers use ISPs anyway) out of existence.
That’s a bit of hyperbole there, and that had occurred to me, actually, except for the bit in there about bringing more bandwidth. I just thought that the DSL I use today doesn’t seem any faster than the DSL I had seven years ago because Comcast was inept – not because they’re greedy and inept.
Today’s On the Media recap was issued forth by the hands of Matthew. It was edited by Kerry, if by “edited,” you mean “asked about while her attention was really devoted to ’30 Rock’ and knitting.”
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