Thursday, December 10, 2009
The Future of Journalism: Journalmation
Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. might have seen the future when he proclaimed nobody reads anymore when asked about his opinion on Amazon's Kindle, an electronic reader, but it is Jimmy Lai of another Apple, that's Apple Daily, who brought you the future today: the convergence of journalism and animation, or what I call Journalmation(TM)--man, you heard it here first. Think bad journalism coupled with even badder animation and you will get the picture. Apple Daily's latest journalmation on seriously boring serial adulterer Tiger Woods has got the athlete by the balls and has taken the world by storm. Sure, the rest of the press industry, those that are bleeding loss and dying, are ridiculing the bad cartoon but hey it got more than two millions views on YouTube which really compares favorably to the HD trailer of James Cameron's over-hyped Avatar, also a fantasy drama mixing cartoon with real people, considering the latter is probably a $500 million dollar production. Barbara Walters has her list of most fascinating people, and I sure got mine too. Jimmy Lai, Tiger Woods and David Letterman make my list, not only are they fascinating, they are sleazily fascinating which is obviously more fascinating than simply fascinating.
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This is not true in Taiwan - at least not in the near future. I admire the people of Taiwan for speaking out against animated news story reporting. A trial case I worked in was once the subject of one of those on the Apple Daily Web site in Hong Kong. So that entitles me to speak with firsthand knowledge that there's way too many gaps for the animator to fill in using his/her imagination or simply borrowing lavishly from gossips, not to mention the rape/sex and torture/killing details that the people of Taiwan find objectionable. [But for the very same reasons, some folks find it appealing.] The end product is also far from the truth [or witnesses' oral evidence given in court]. Jimmy Lai's Group was denied two TV licences in Taiwan for making explicit news story animations. It served him right. And I applaud the people and the government of Taiwan for that.
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Yeah, just like Avatar, it's basically fantasy or bullshit.
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