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The Onion is getting into the video fake news business with 15 new employees and a video production unit. The online clips will be embeddable on blogs. Here’s the trailer for the Onion News Network, which starts up next month.
The more satirical the fake news promos get, the more they look like real news promos.
8 comments March 10th, 2007
A U.S. soldier forced two freelance AP journalists to erase photos and video they took of the aftermath of a suicide bombing and shooting in Afghanistan. The AP, of course, has objected. A top ranking military official in Afghanistan said photographs or video taken by “untrained people” might “capture visual details that are not as they originally were.” Afghan witnesses say U.S. troops had fired on civilians in cars and on foot following the suicide bombing attack on a U.S. Marine convoy.
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Rex points us to the New Yorker and its clean new look. See how easy it is to find information? See how they don’t fear white space? This is the unquestionable - and welcome - trend. Now ask yourself why no local TV news sites are this clean. Locals be brave: clean up your act.
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Another disruption in the traditional media mold to tell you about: the William Morris Agency has entered into a partnership that could mean a web channel for every star. The agency is partnering with Narrowstep, which bills itself as the “TV on the Internet Company.” The idea is to produce “TV-quality programming” and put it on the web. This subverts the old model, by allowing the agency to create shows for its clients and blast them directly to the audience. So, in theory, every William Morris client - and there are 3,000 of them - could have their own web channel. The agency also has corporate clients - synergy, anyone? (Ultimately, of course, every actor could bag their agent and go straight to the audience. Agents, after all, are the ultimate middle-men.) While LR doesn’t like when Hollywood uses old terms like “TV on the web” - it’s just the web, guys - we do like it any time there’s a shift away from the old model. (Thanks, CK!)
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The always amazing TED conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is going on through today in Monterey, California. The list of brainboxes talking at this conference gives new meaning to “eclectic.” It’s sort of what would happen if the web showed up one day and decided to talk. I can’t explain it any better. Throughout the year TED puts up videos from the event, (watch some of the TEDPrize winners in this entry) and I try to feature them at LR. Each is a treat. The best are often the ones I think I will enjoy the least. Subscribe to the TED RSS for the videos. And check out the liveblog of the event - which is even being sketchblogged. If I could get invited to one event - TED would be it.
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The Weather Channel has launched “Weather Island” inside Second Life. From the press release: The island will serve as a headquarters for The Weather Channel, host an extreme sports park as well as provide a destination to screen premiere episodes of the new program Epic Conditions. The Weather Channel joins Reuters and other real-life companies inside the virtual world. Full release…
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There is a resolution before the House of Reps that has spurred a lot of forwarded emails to me. H.R. 983, the “Local Emergency Radio Service Preservation Act of 2007″ decidedly takes satellite radio services to the mat. It’s also not new - it’s a reintroduction of a bill that has not passed before. The National Association of Broadcasters supports this bill. And that has launched a bunch of forwarded emails along with a note, the gist of which is that this bill would block satellite radio from broadcasting an Amber Alert or severe weather alert into your community. Kris Jones, a spokesperson with the NAB, spoke with me on Friday to discuss the NAB’s position on this bill and its thoughts on what local broadcasters do to distinguish themselves from national programming.
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