It's been interesting watching the collapse of printed media and observing how news organizations try to embrace the digital age. The rise of twitter thanks in part to Rich Sanchez (CNN) and other media people hopping on the bandwagon with gusto. (disclaimer: I am a tweet virgin, my new years resolution was to live a life of tweet-celibacy).
I was reading an article by Michael Calderone (Politico) on media blunders of 2009. One really funny attempt was made by Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza (Washington Post) to host a vlog (video blog) on political affairs.
They jumped the shark with their crude attempt to embrace the elephant of racism in discussing the 'beer summit'.
Video and hilarious youtube parody response on the flip.
I was reading an article by Michael Calderone (Politico) on media blunders of 2009. One really funny attempt was made by Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza (Washington Post) to host a vlog (video blog) on political affairs. As Calderone wrote:
Milbank-Cillizza Web show gets pulled: The first-ever White House beer summit — remember that? — prompted a lot of jokes in the media. And Washington Post writers Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza mocked the summit on their "Mouthpiece Theater" Web show, by coming up with what beers political leaders would likely drink. Their suggestion for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — "Mad Bitch beer"— did not go down well with bloggers, drew a rebuke from women’s media groups and resulted in a great YouTube parody. Both Milbank and Cillizza apologized; Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli went a step further — he killed the video show. Read more: http://www.politico.com/...
Read more: http://www.politico.com/...
Here's the episode:
and here's an amazingly true & funny youtube parody that followed.
Although I've never been a fan of Dana Milbank, I did like Chris Cillizza. Sad to see him stoop to this level. It's kinda sad to see how news media has been evolving in the decade.
IMO, the biggest story not covered in the last decade by the MSM has been the collapse of journalism and the rise of info/reality entertainment.