[lbo-talk] The vanden Heuvel Church of the Obvious

[Sean Andrews]

I regardless of the content of this video, does anyone else get the
feeling of complete and total revulsion when they see one of these
video blogs?  Something about the whole format-- completely still
camera, boring background, a lone individual with no sense of what to
do with their body or face; the badly lighted frame and grainy
resolution.  I find it embarassing and artless and can't understand
why this format has become so interesting to people.  Why not just
audio?  Why not--god forbid--typing it out.  I don't know that much
about the process, but I can't imagine that, once you spend the time
processing the video and uploading it you are saving all that much
time.  I really hope that this fad fades out soon because I really
find it repulsive.  There is so much more one could do with video
bandwidth--and so many other ways to say the useless comments these
things usually include.

On 1/13/07, Auguste Blanqui <blanquist at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070129/katrina_video
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