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Tooka

Tooka tooka tooka. Toooooooooo-ka. TooKA! Tooka tooka. ToooooKAAAAAAAAAAA.

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Are You Kidding Me?

This is why Deb isn’t allowed to go out drinking—it forces me to pick what to watch on television and I end up watching drivel.

Turns out last night when she was carousing I was watching a sad little show about JonBenet Ramsey and the did-he-or-didn’t-he confession of her alleged murderer on ABC’s Primetime “news” (quotes on purpose) show. The show was modestly interesting, but unnecessarily stretched out from what amounted to 6 minutes (maybe!) of new/real/interesting reporting into an hour-long special. From all that “coverage” (again with the quotes), one tidbit jumped out at me and I found it again on the front page of the article online…

JonBenet Ramsey’s murder mystery has consumed people. Consumers have spent 1.87 billion hours of time reading or watching news on the little girl.

Are you freaking kidding me? I am up to maybe 1.5 hours of active viewing/reading in the last 10 years (and I wasn’t so terribly active vegging on the couch eating Doritos wondering how drunk Deb was getting), but 1.87 billion hours? Imagine if people had been productive during all those hours. How many problems could have been solved?

Oy.

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Bible Lesson of the Day

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Extra! Extra! Read All About It

Well, actually, that’s the question. How do you read your news? In the last week or so there have been some interesting pieces of news/opinion that have come out in the media world that prompt my curiosity.

One is an opinion piece from AdAge magazine envisioning a world in which Dow Jones folds the print version of The Wall Street Journal in favor of an online-only edition.

The second is an article from Mediapost announcing topline findings from a recent Pew Research Center for The People & The Press survey that basically states that the web is still a secondary medium for news.

One article seems to contradict the other—although, admittedly, the AdAge article doesn’t give a specific timeline of this imagined conversion to Online-only and the Pew Research study shows an unmistakeable flight to the web from “traditional media”…

In any event, back to the question: how do you get your news?

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