Do we really have to?Status Update: Notice how local TV is pimping off Facebook?
Have you no shame? Of course radio is just as guilty too. But seriously, how much more gimmicky and crap can we take?
Is there no forum where Facebook, in essence, being subsidized by news outlets to augment, enhance, even act as a conduit--something is rotten here in Denmark.
Look, I acknowledge the enormity of Facebook as a 21st century phenomena--I myself use it to promote this blog, but I'm a one-man band and not a TV station. Bad enough that puny little market-64 stations, (and KRON here locally, big surprise), utilize FB in its news content, but you other big guys have no excuse.
And that goes for CNN too, which given its position as a cable behemoth knows better than to use FB as a source for its questions on the GOP debates, for example.
We're not pooh-poohing modern-day technology and its Godzilla Superman--we simply say it looks tacky that major news outlets, local, network, cable, whatever, has to resort to creating "reaction" and lobbed "questions" from the Zuckerburg factory. Did it ever occur to the nitwits who dreamed up this idea that the vast majority of people already on FB probably has zero interest in their current program--be it a debate, a news program, etc and if they did, wouldn't they be watching in the first place and not posting pictures of their neighbor's cat? Hello!
I'm struck by the moron quotient that brings this crap onto the airwaves. I'm dumbfounded that we continue, at least the majority of us, simply to acknowledge this shit. Talk about sheep. Please don't tell me about the new media, the new way, the new news business model--all this is is a group of lazy hacks that couldn't produce and create any new content if their life depended on it.
Facebook is a lovely gargantuan mega-corp. Between it and Google and Twitter, they have become 100% ingrained into the culture, be it news, sports, entertainment--whether we like it or not. And that's OK, after all, life without Facebook would be the end of civilization as we know it. And God knows no Facebook, might as well be the equivalent of the end of the dinosaurs, 2012.
Dare I say, a debate without some schmendrick question from "Ike in Fremont, on Facebook", who's a "cook", has a "family" and likes "dockers", asking Mitt about nuking Iran seems out of place, cheap, bizarre, lazy, duh!
We don't like that, do we? No, I guess we do. We watch this crap.
