Will MySpace Disrupt Television?

newsblaze writes "In the Media space, the internet has been threatening to be a highly disruptive technology for some time now. So far it has done quite a number on newspapers, who still don't understand the internet. There are a lot of people who like to have the paper in their hands, though, so newspapers are holding on. Television has no such ties to a physical medium. When Murdoch bought Myspace, I wondered how long it would be before he either found something to do with it — or gave up. Now it seems Murdoch has found a way to leverage his position, and put a massive squeeze on television. How far can he take this — and what will be the result?"

newsblaze?

[Anonymous Coward]

Holy shit. My head is still hurting from trying to read that "article." The whole thing is filled with incomplete sentences and fragments of thoughts. A note to Ms Strasbaugh: Take some writing classes. A note to NewsBlaze: Hire some qualified editors. As long as there is writing this bad out there, the established print media has nothing to fear from "Citizen Journalists." As for the "content" of the article, MySpace has struck a deal for a show that has no established viewer base at this time (simply because the show doesn't exist yet). Apparently to Ms Strasbaugh, this is the death knell for television.

Re:There's nothing worth watching on TV.

[urikkiru]

The last time that I moved apartments, it was to move in with a friend of mine. We talked about it briefly, and decided we didn't want cable. Oh, we have a cable *modem*, but no actual broadcast television stations. Honestly, I have not ever missed it, and it's been about 3 years now. Oh, there's the occasional show that I want to see, and I try an episode online here or from a friend's DVD collection there. If I like it, I rent or buy it, and watch it. Or just watch it at a friends house. I watch a bit of Anime now and then as well.

By and large however, TV is really no longer a way I spend a lot of my time. I really, really enjoy the lack of advertising bombarding me in my life.

Just my 2 cents.

Re:newsblaze?

[deftcoder]

I read the first "sentence" (i.e. a collection of sentences strewn together with commas) and saw the "it's" at the end. At that point, I closed the tab the article was loaded in.

Please, for the love of $DEITY, don't let people who can't speak English write articles.

Indie Rock

[mwigmani]

"Indy Rock" technically means ANY music from the 'Rock' super-genre that is signed to a label not directly owned by the handful of big record companies.

While I agree the term 'indie' started from there, it's evolved to something different, and is closer to the term 'underground' than anything else. In musical terms (as opposed to film, in which the term indie has also changed over time) 'Indie Rock' is really an umbrella term (comparable to 'Electronica') that encompasses a variety of sub-genres such as lo-fi, pop underground, college rock, dance-punk, twee, indie-electronic, etc. while simultaneously describing a certain 'sound' that came out of the rock underground in the 90s exemplified by bands like Pavement, Guided By Voices, Built to Spill, Archers of Loaf, Olivia Tremor Control, etc.

It's a very confusing and subjective term, and is really inadequate for proper differentiation of musical genres, but we're stuck with it, and regardless of how it's used within the emo community, emo is certainly not synonymous with indie rock, it's simply a child of the indie node.