Clearchanneling has homogenized media so that its “content” is as predictable as a shopping mall’s tenant roster.
I read this last night and it was rolling about in my head this morning when I was at the gym.
Now for a PR guy, this is going to sound like heresy but I hardly watch TV. I couldn’t even tell you when CSI:Miami is on if my life depended on it. I download Doctor Who, TiVo Battlestar Galactica and that’s about the sum total of my TV consumption. And TV news gives me hives. Can’t watch it. At all.
So I was, as I said, rolling about this thought from Doc Searls in my head while at the gym where there are at least a dozen TVs – half set to Fox News, the others to various morning shows. And for the first time in a while I really paid attention to what was going on there.
And it’s just.. insipid. Frightening really.
I’ll have some more to say about this subject as soon as I figure it all out. Maybe I should watch this stuff with a far less critical eye, maybe it would make me a better PR guy.
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