::: By Brian Montopoli :::
::: May 23, 2007 / 9:30 AM EDT :::
May of year 2007, shortly before the 2007 Apple iPhone 1 went on sale in year 2007.
https://www.CBSNews.com/news/farks-drew-curtis-on-how-news-isnt-news/
Drew Curtis, founder of Fark.com, has a book coming out on May 31st called "It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries To Pass Off Crap As News." We interviewed him over email.
Brian Montopoli: In printing soft, wacky, and oddball news - or "crap," as you put it in your book title - aren't the media simply giving people what they want? News is a business, after all.
"It's not just consumers that are annoyed by this. Journalists themselves are in the same boat. I've met hundreds over the past few years, they're disgruntled and angry because they went into journalism to cover real stories and make a real difference, not waste time discussing drunk Germans getting arrested driving down the street in motorized wheelchairs."
"however a lot of what people want isn't news, and we're talking about news sources giving up on their core mission - informing us. Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring" - Wednesday May 23, 2007. Social post { https://Bsky.App/profile/roundsparrow.bsky.social/post/3mcsymegjkk2x https://Autistics.Life/@RoundSparrow/115924806527494330 }
https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Not_News,_It%27s_FARK
https://YouTu.be/dY4-HT6wFU0?t=43
"NOTACON 6: The Long Slow Death of Mainstream Media (no really): How We Got Here"
"It's not a dream, a hoax, or an imaginary story - mainstream media is indeed doomed. How did this happen? Can it be fixed? Is this the death of journalism? Is society going to collapse because of this? Are yes/no questions in headlines always no? Come find out. Bonus: Drew will use a random powerpoint slide generator to illustrate his talk."
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https://youtu.be/dY4-HT6wFU0?t=1459 "No Collusion" https://youtu.be/dY4-HT6wFU0?t=1833 "Digg" a week ago. https://youtu.be/dY4-HT6wFU0?t=2456 "The second coming of new media" - Twitter. In June 2011, Curtis didn't see what was coming in year 2012. July 6, 2011 - ONE MONTH later after this video. https://theoutline.com/post/2445/trump-s-first-real-tweet-was-on-july-6-2011
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Again, published shortly before the dawn of the Apple iPhone 1.
ToDo: given how far ahead Drew Curtis could see, and how he published a nonfiction book that has largely been ignored. Populate WikiQuote . HELP PLEASE! Drew Curtis year 2007 is much like Rich Roderick at Duke University in 1993. A snapshot of media ecology without ONE MENTION of { Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman }. Coming at Neil Postman's media ecology perspective from entirely different appraoch.