Friday, Wired's TV Is Dead. Long Live the TV celebrated eighty years of TV, with an article devoted to TV's latest evolution and incredible staying power.
Said Kim Moses, co-producer of CBS' Ghost Whisperer, "Traditional TV won't be here in seven to 10 years. It's changing so fast that I don't know if it's even going to be that long."
Old rules about TV are being broken, leaving the traditional TV set and moving online. Some shows are even strictly streamed on the web, or available to download on iTunes minutes after they air.
But does that mean that TV has died? Of course not, according to Wired, "television has never been stronger." Now, almost 92% of households own more than one TV, even 51% of people owning three or more sets. Those numbers are huge, compared to a little over a decade when just 60% of households owned more than one TV.
Jeff Jarvis, writer of the blog Buzz Machine, said it best: "We have more choice now, and more creative outlets...that yields better TV."
The journalism world should be looking at the evolving forms of media and news outlets in the same kind of positive light. It should be seen as an exciting new frontier, and our ability to take on this new challenge of choice, creativity and dialogue should attest to the staying power of journalism.
I wish that more articles like this were written about new changes in traditional news, it would pacify so many of us as we enter the real "journalism world."
Connie Kargbo @ Fri, 04/13/2007 - 9:27pm
I don't think TV is dying either. I wouldn't have spent my college years studying the art of broadcast journalism only to be told there are no jobs in this industry because, what do you know, it's dead. Television is here to stay. Well, at least until after print media dies.