msb-0175 Uh? What Happened To The News?
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Main Topic: "Uh? What Happened To The News?"
I just watched the news and I can tell you that we're "never" going to get any coverage there.
ABC evening news only has 30 minutes to cover an entire planet.
Their coverage is limited to recounting that something occurred here and there but there is absolutely no depth and no time for depth, no time for any analysis.
Its merely a recounting of events without a whisper as to why, as to the reason behind the events.
There was a leak of radio active water into the ocean after the latest quake to hit Japan, but not a peep about why anyone would want to build a N-plant there or about the way they chose to construct the plant. (Remember, this was "only" a 6.6 quake on the Richter scale. They have a potential for much, much worse.)
And they only report on things with major foot prints.
Discovering cures for things don't make the news unless a large enough number of people are afflicted.
The common cold gets far more coverage (read "air time") than MS because of that.
Heck, avian flu gets more coverage than MS because of the potential for contracting it.
Never mind that, world-wide, there are five million people with MS, as opposed to less than 500 people who have contracted the H5N1 virus.
I guess people aren't much good at comparing orders of magnitude.
That's 5x10^6 or so actual cases versus 5x10^2 or so actual cases. (I guess they think "Its just a bunch of zeros, so what difference could it possibly make?")
Don't get me wrong, I think that its admirable that all the health organizations are working on preventing an outbreak, but when is the last time research on MS raised that kind of media ruckus? (There's 5 million of us with crap on our faces and none of those mothers even wants to come over with their "do gooder" hankies and give our chins a "spit-wipe".)
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Main Topic, part deux:
On so many facets, one person's news is another's advertising, and vice versa.
Apart from unplanned and/or uncontrolled events, like natural disasters, (not terrorist attacks [there are those who would profit from terrorist attacks, {Al Queda and the D.H.S. (Department of Homeland Security,) benefit, each in their own way,}]) basically, everything, and I mean everything, is fodder for commerce.
Therein lies the strength of commerce and of human ingenuity.
(I must be in a merchant mode; don't mind me; its residual effect of working on a business plan.)
The ambivalence that we all feel toward commerce stems from the very ambivalence of the activities carried out in the name of commerce.
Somethings seem noble and easy to get behind. (Podcasting is wonderful and great, but really, until it becomes a remunerated profession, its just a hobby, the province of amateurs.)
Somethings are just shitty jobs and nobody does them willingly.
Sadly those jobs are actually necessary so some form of incentive is necessary to make it, uh, worth doing. In this the lowest common denominator world, that means money.
The world of commerce dictates that somethings must be remunerated.
The more they are worth, like having a podcast with a specific purpose and a specific audience, like this podcast, the more they must be remunerated; compared to someone else who has an audience of people who just aren't affected/afflicted and who just don't care. (Hey I'm not blaming them, they don't have to.)
That's just the tyranny of demographics.
It affects the sellers as well the buyers. (And the cash register went "cha-ching" :-)
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Monday, July 16, 2007
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Regarding the media and it's inability (or unwillingness) to address us, I often wonder this: When Katie Couric was on the Today Show, colon cancer was mentioned all the time. It was the "cause du jour" for many years. Now the Today Show has Meredith Veiera, who's husband has MS. I think I heard maybe one thing about it. Shame on her for not using her position as Katie Couric used hers.
MS made headlines back when Tysabri got recalled due to it's potential relationship to PML deaths. Death is news these days.
Hello Ms. Mouse, yes, death makes the news, (though I have to listen to Weaponry on WBAI for the complete casualty reports from the "Wars on the Far Side of the World".)
I actually read "Blindsided: Lifting A Life Above Illness", the book by Richard Cohen, the MSer husband of Meredith Veiera, and you're undeniably right.
It was a book and it faded from view, if it ever was in our faces, when she got her job as anchor.
But I'm not blaming her in anyway for what she did or didn't do.
As I wrote, the mass media is the mass media and we MSers don't represent the mass in any way, shape or form.
That's why MSBPodcast is so important.
Nobody else is positioned to bring MSers news that matters to them, and on only to them.
(Yes, I'll get around to doing more interviews.
I did it once through Skype to prove it could work.
Then I recorded a podcamp session with my remote to prove it could work.
I then started two international multi-lingual collaborations to show how far we could reach.
Believe me, I know that I've got a tiger by the tail. :-)
This is a model for the rest of all time on how do media on the internet for heretofore ignored niches.
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