The Grammar of Video

Posted June 04, 2016
Share To
 
 

When Gutenberg invented the prinitng press in 1452, he could have gone down to his basement the next day and printed The New York Times. 

He had the technology.

What he lacked was the idea of what to do with it.  It would take 350 years to figure that out.

With video in all our hands now, we have the technology to do more than YouTube videos or CNN - we just have to figure out what...

 


Recent Posts

The world of television before cable had been limited to 3 networks and a handful of local TV stations. But the advent of cable meant that suddenly there were 60, 70 soon to be 100 or more new channels. And all of those channels needed content. But where were they going to get it from? A huge market for content had just opened up.


Q: What do TV news and Netflix have in common? A: They both appear on the same screen. They both tell stories.


This morning, I went out early to buy my copy of the weekend FT — a great newspaper, by the way. I was a bit surprised to see that my regular newsstand, on 6th Avenue and 55th Street, had exactly 3 newspapers for sale — one copy of Baron’s and two copies of The New York Post. That was it. No FT, no NY Times, no Washington Post, no… nothing.


Share Page on:

Twitter