“Trashing the Tube”
This week’s issue of Newsweek has an article called “Trashing the Tube” by Steven Levy. He interviewed the owners of a new program called Joost. This is or soon will be a way to watch TV online. The creators of joost also created music programs which caused the demise of the music industry. There’s no telling what this new program will do to the TV industry. One of the creators said, “My job will be done when I have acquired the rights for every channel, every avant-garde French film, every soccer match…every piece of professional content the world has to offer”. Sounds like a crazy guy on a power trip in search of America’s next megaconglomerate to me.