Blog Focus on New Media Consumption the Old-Fashioned Way
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Ah, sweeps, you magnificent bastard. We don't read your Nielsen books anymore!
Sure, we're all using our DVRs to break the time-space continuum regularly, but the old model is so dug in that it's been fighting a case of trench mouth since 1996. So what's the solution? Why, bare breasts on local news!
The Washington, D.C. affiliate for ABC has stepped up its game by offering a graphic two-part series on breast exams. It's a public service, of course, and not at all ill-timed. Dust off your hands, television; you've solved the problem! At least, you've staved off the inevitable until the Internet figures out a delivery system for pornographic images...
... oops. Maybe a three-part series on proper speculum use?
While your local stations fiddle, the blogs burn with news on your new entertainment options. Burn, baby, burn; blogging inferno:
• The Business of Online Video — Dan Rayburn documented how the MPAA held its hand dramatically to its forehead on "60 Minutes" last night and looked for pity from the aged public as those darned kids are still stealing from hard-working businesses through piracy. You know, because the last thing "60 Minutes" viewers want to do is sit for 115 minutes in a movie theater surrounded by rowdy teens too inept to work a BitTorrent.
• TechCrunch — Daniel Brusilovsky tells us about another industry that's managed to cut over to battery-powered devices as Marvel Comics has dipped their toes into iPhone delivery for their products. (Okay, Marvel Comics is actually just a movie studio being ripped off by those darned kids... look, no one said progress would be simple.)
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