Atheist Youtuboultion?
I enjoy watching the News Hour with Jim Lehrer; however, aside from that, it’s difficult for me to imagine watching most television and cable news programs for any reason other than to examine the state of the Media; certainly, anyone interested in actual news will gain nothing but frustration from most of these shows—although I confess that it’s thanks to ABC News that I’m now in the know about the Webkinz child cult (and haven’t we seen this somewhere before?).
Brian Wilson, one of the strangest and most horrible of the network news personalities, recently held forth about the unseemly competition from below:
“You’re going to be up against people who have an opinion, a modem, and a bathrobe. All of my life, developing credentials to cover my field of work, and now I’m up against a guy named Vinny in an efficiency apartment in the Bronx who hasn’t left the efficiency apartment in two years” — Brian Williams, anchor of the “NBC Nightly News,” speaking before New York University journalism students on the challenges traditional journalism faces from online media.
It it possible that Williams doesn’t realize how hopelessly outmatched he is in this contest? While Williams spends his days promoting his show, getting his make-up done, and currying favor with tv execs and politicians, Vinny spends his time reading the news.
Anyway, so the clip above was of interest to me. Not only because agnostics like myself are routinely told not to apply to teaching jobs at religious schools in the US, but also because of the form and execution of the video essay, in which Albert 10110 goes back and revises the CNN program to make it less stupid. I like this form, and I hope we see more of it. But I suppose that CNN etc. are likely to pull the plug on their YouTube materials once the popularity of de-stupified news programming begins to approach that of the originals.