Charlie Bit Me

Charlie bit me

OK, this is nuts. A really funny family video, posted on YouTube that somehow has gone around the world gaining mainstream attention and listing alongside the PR spin for US primaries and Indiana Jones. At time of writing this video has been viewed close to 7 million times. Even assuming some of those viewers came back it still means this one video has been viewed by more people than watch the BBC News at Ten (BARB data) OK, so this is sod all to do with radio but the world is changing, I’m currently reading Andrew Keen’s ‘the cult of the amateur’ and he largely dismisses this as a waste of time and erosion of culture. In that the mediated media controls what we see, gets ride of crap and focuses on the accurate and the quality.

We assume here of course that the media ever really did that. It will look for mass audiences and media around the world have all used videos of babies biting little children to bring in the audiences. So, the only difference we don’t get sent £50 and we get to keep our tapes. I agree there’s a lot of rubbish out there bu give anything space to breath and there will be, there will always be bad restaurants in amongst the good ones but that doesn’t mean that only the big chains should own them all?

Anyway, I’ll post more when I’ve read the book.
/muse