September 25, 2004
you think TV is tedious?
“The consumers who make the biggest difference (the busy ones, the ones who earn a lot, spend a lot, vote, talk a lot and change things) are the ones most likely to be online and least likely to watch TV.”
You think TV is tedious? You should see the people who work in it.
As a cartoonist, I prefer blogging to publishing in old media. I like the total control. I like the one-on-one.
Careerwise, I meet far more interesting people via blogging than I ever did working in TV or Madison Avenue.
ALLEGORY: The difference between blogging and mass-media cartooning is like the difference between a glass of whisky in front of a fire with an old friend, and talking to a hundred random people in a nightclub.
I could be watching TV right now
Haven’t owned a TV since 1986-ish. (OK, sometimes I live with people that own TVs but I don’t watched — even BEFORE the Internet.) I know I’m in minority but it’s a growing minority.
This is why I stopped: I realized that the stars on TV programs don’t spend precious hours passively chained to a television set. We’d be bored to tears watching THAT. They were actually engaged in LIVING.
Yep. They want us to watch/love them, they don’t want to watch/love us back
This whole one-way media thing is so over… remember when one-way media was all there was? When the only “citizen’s media” was local access cable or spending big bucks at Kinko’s?
Man, that seems like so long ago…