The Fall of Print Based Media as the Power of the Internet Rises; Documentary Script

Below is the first five minutes of as documentary I wrote about a year and a half ago about the fall of print based media as accessibility and usage of the internet increases.

AUDIO 0.0     – 0.20 MAN Facebook WOMAN Twitter MAN YouTube        WOMAN Google WOMAN Hotmail MAN MySpace GIRL Yahoo BOY Wikipedia GIRL Instagram WOMAN BlogSpot WOMAN Tumblr MAN Amazon MAN eBay WOMAN Internet Movie Database MAN ITV Player WOMAN 4OD MAN BBC iPlayer MAN AOL WOMAN Vimeo MAN Facebook GIRL Twitter WOMAN YouTube WOMAN Google MAN Hotmail WOMAN MySpace WOMAN Yahoo GIRL Wikipedia MAN Amazon WOMAN BlogSpot MAN eBay MAN Instagram WOMAN Tumblr MAN Internet Movie Database WOMAN BBC iPlayer MAN ITV Player WOMAN 4OD MAN VIMEO WOMAN AOL WOMAN Facebook MAN Twitter WOMAN YouTube MAN Google WOMAN Hotmail MAN Sky Sports Online BRONTE What about print based media? 0.20 – 0.30       THEME TUNE Alex Clare - Too Close (Instrumental) 0.30 – 1.15 BRONTE       Hello, my name is Bronte Dawson and throughout      this documentary I am going to reveal to you the truth that is right beneath every one of our noses... but no one is realising.       The internet is an incredible source, you can get anything you want from it; shopping, socialising, research, information, music… but is it getting to powerful? And are we forgetting some of the world’s most reliable resources – in print based media? Each of us will have our different opinions when it comes to the Internet and print-based media such as newspapers and magazines. This documentary will explore different views and hypotheses and maybe, just maybe, together we can see the truth, the reality.     It’s internet vs. print based media. Who will win the final battle?       To start it all off, I have taken to the streets to see what the public think. Here is what they said. 1.15 – 1.17 BACKGROUND NOISE OF BUSY CROWD 1.17 – 2.17 DEBBIE HARRIS       To be quite honest, you can’t really believe anything you read in the newspapers these days. No wonder print based media is going bust, what do you expect with such a bad reputation?     I guess it’s wrong to stereotype all printed publications by the few tacky and badly written ones, but the quality is really gone for most. Most newspapers just contain gossip, scandal and lies. I don’t understand why people would buy it – just the same as most magazines. Hardly any of its true and even the very little that is true is exaggerated.       Local newspapers don’t contain as much nonsense but they don’t contain any real news anymore, they don’t reach the real needs of the audience. People like me wouldn’t go out of our way to read about the local fate at the church or want to pay £3.50 to vote for a local girl in a scam of a modeling competition. Local newspapers used to bring the community together but don’t even get paid attention anymore and it’s not surprising.       As for the internet, I’m not naïve enough to believe everything I read but it’s so much easier to search for something I am actually interested in and find a decent source straight away – it’s cheaper, more reliable and easier to access. 2.17 – 2.19 BACKGROUND NOISE OF CARS AND PEOPLE 2.19 – 3.19 MARTIN HEALY      Who cares about printed publications these days? Like really, what is the point? I don’t understand why anyone would want to go out there way to go to a shop or a newsagent to get a magazine or a newspaper when it is so easy to get it online. I mean I could pull out my phone right now and find what’s going on right now on Twitter or even Facebook; I could watch videos about it on YouTube. I’m pretty sure there is an app for iPhones and iPads that lets you read the news easily, without having to pay much or go out your way to get it.      The same goes for magazines, pretty much all decent magazines have a website which is free or an app which costs much less than having to go out and buy it every week, or fortnight, or month, or whatever. It’s just so much easier to get exactly what you want.      The only reason I could justify someone going to the shop to get printed publications is if they don’t have a smartphone, laptop, PC, computer, iPad, tablet or a Mac. And really, how many people don’t have at least one of them? 3.19 – 3.21 BACKGROUND NOISE OF AN ECHOED PIANO AND CHOIR SINGING INSIDE BUILDING 3.21 – 4.21 PATRICIA BOURNE      I don’t see what the big deal is about the internet. Instead of going out and having a coffee with a friend and being socialable, people are spending all day on their computers and phones and the rest of this technology.      It’s not bringing the community together like it is meant to, it is tearing it apart. People don’t have time to take part in local plays like they used to, the numbers here have dropped from around 100 attendants to about 27. People don’t seem to have any need to come together and entertain eachother when they can find it all online.      As for local newspapers, they have gone from the most important news source to the least. I used to go out my way to get a local newspaper and I really appreciated it, and now people get them dropped through their front door and don’t bother to pick it up.    It is a real shame that today’s society has let this technology rule our lives, but that is just the power of the internet. 4.21 -  4.46 BRONTE There is quite clearly very mixed opinions amongst the public, all of which seemed inconclusive, so I decided to take my search for the truth a bit further and decided to talk to the people involved. Journalists.      I got in touch with one blogger, one local journalist and one national journalist to see what they thought about the matter. Here is what they had to say.

VISUAL INT: WORK OFFICE MS of 30 year old man wearing a suit, centre screen. EXT: OUTSIDE TOPSHOP MS of 23 year old woman wearing casual clothes, centre screen. EXT: OUTSIDE A COLLEGE MS of 19 year old man wearing casual clothes, centre screen. INT: IN LIVING ROOM MS of 42 year old woman in relaxing clothes, centre screen. EXT: IN PARK MS of 32 year old woman in winter clothes, centre screen. EXT: OUTSIDE MUSIC VENUE MS of 27 year old man in punk clothes, centre screen. INT: BEDROOM COVERED IN BOYBAND POSTERS MS of 15 year old girl in school uniform, centre screen. EXT: ON SWING MS of 16 year old boy casual clothes, centre screen. EXT: IN PLAYGROUND MS of 14 year old girl in posh school uniform, centre screen. INT: IN CAFE MS of 27 year old woman in casual clothes, centre screen. EXT: ON HIGH STREET MS of 18 year old woman in fashionable clothes, centre screen. INT: IN CAR MS of 35 year old man in work clothes, centre screen. INT: SAT BY COMPUTER MS of 21 year old man in geeky clothes, centre screen. EXT: OUTSIDE LESUIRE CENTRE MS of 28 year old woman in gym clothes, centre screen. EXT: ON TOP OF RAMP AT SKATEPARK MS of 18 year old man in skater clothing, centre screen. INT: IN QUEUE AT CINEMA MS of 24 year old woman in evening clothing, centre screen. EXT: OUTSIDE NEWSPAPER OFFICES MS of 37 year old man in suit, centre screen. INT: IN NEWSAGENTS BEHIND COUNTER MS of 52 year old man in casual work clothes, centre screen. EXT: OUTSIDE CLUB MS of 21 year old woman in clubbing clothes, centre screen. INT: IN PUB MS of 45 year old man in typical pub clothes, centre screen. EXT: ON BENCH IN TOWN MS of 17 year old girl in casual clothes, centre screen. INT: ON TRAIN MS of 30 year old woman in summer clothes, centre screen. INT: AT DINNER TABLE MS of 38 year old woman in casual clothes, centre screen. INT: IN LIBRARY MS of 24 year old man in casual clothes, centre screen. INT: IN SWIMMING POOL MS of 25 year old woman in swimming costume, centre screen. EXT: OUTSIDE BULL RING BY BULL MS of 21 year old woman in warm clothing, centre screen. EXT: STANDING BY SCHOOL GATE MS of 14 year old girl in school uniform, centre screen. INT: IN COLLEGE REFECTORY MS of 18 year old man in casual clothing, centre screen. EXT: ON HORSE IN RIDING SCHOOL MS of 32 year old woman in smart riding clothes, centre screen. EXT: STANDING BY TREE MS of 45 year old man in warm clothing, centre screen. INT: IN RECORDING STUDIO MS of 25 year old man in rock star clothing, centre screen. INT: IN GYM ON ROWING MACHINE MS of 18 year old woman in gym clothing, centre screen. EXT: OUTSIDE TOWN HALL MS of 55 year old man in a smart suit, centre screen. INT: IN HAIRDRESSERS CHAIR GETTING HAIR DONE MS of 34 year old woman in casual clothing, centre screen. EXT: ON BENCH OUTSIDE PUB MS of 29 year old man in casual smart clothing, centre screen. INT: DOING MAKE-UP IN HOUSE IN MIRROR MS of 22 year old woman in lounge clothing, centre screen. EXT: OUTSIDE JACK WILLS MS of 19 year old man in Jack Wills clothing, centre screen. EXT: SITTING OUTSIDE STARBUCKS MS of 19 year old woman in summer clothing, centre screen. INT: IN NAIL SALON MS of 36 year old woman in glamorous clothing, centre screen. EXT: AT TENNIS COURTS MS of 30 year old man in tennis clothing, centre screen. INT: SAT ON SOFA IN HOUSE WATCHING TELEVISION MS of 25 year old woman in pajamas, centre screen. INT: IN UNIVERSITY LECTURERS OFFICE MS of 42 year old man in a suit, centre screen. INT: AT STUDENT UNION MS of 20 year old woman in casual clothing, centre screen. EXT: IN FOOTBALL FIELD MS of 22 year old man in a football kit, centre screen. EXT: TOWN HIGH STREET MS of Bronte, centre screen. INT: NEWSPAPER PRINTING ROOM WS of printing process.  A Dawson Productions Documentary enters from the bottom left hand side of the screen. INT/EXT: CENTRAL HIGH STREET IN CITY Camera work by Dean Smith enters from top left hand side of the screen. Edited by Julie Andrews enters from mid-left hand side of the screen. Produced by Thomas Scott enters from bottom left hand side of the screen. BACKGROUND: LOGOS AND TITLES OF DIFFERENT PUBLICATIONS Title of the documentary appears in centre screen. EXT: BUSY TOWN HIGH STREET LS of Bronte walking down the middle of a busy high street. Other people in the shot are sped up and blurred out, Bronte to be centre screen and the public to be on either side. EXT: OUTSIDE LARGE DEBENHAMS IN TOWN HIGH STREET MS of Debbie Harris, centre screen. Name Debbie Harris appears in writing on the bottom left hand side of the screen. INT: INSIDE DEBENHAMS CAFÉ ON SOFA MS of Debbie Harris, right hand side of screen looking central towards the camera. EXT: OUTSIDE LARGE CINEMA MS of Martin Healy, centre screen. Name Martin Healy appears in writing on the bottom right hand side of the screen. INT: INSIDE CINEMA, WITH BACKGROUND OF QUEUE WITH MAINLY YOUNG PEOPLE IN IT ON MOBILE PHONES MS of Martin Healy, left hand side of screen looking centre at camera. EXT: OUTSIDE SMALL TOWN HALL WITH SIGNS ADVERTSING LOCAL PANTOMIME Name Patricia Bourne appears in writing on the bottom centre of the screen. INT: SAT AT ENTERANCE OF TOWN HALL ON CHAIR TURNED AROUND FROM AUDIENCE CHAIRS WITH BACKGROUND OF CHOIR AND PIANO MS of Patricia Bourne on right hand side of screen looking central.

Day in the Life of Nadine Forshaw; WINOL

Meeting Susan Witt

Susan Witt is a Liberal Democrat local councillor in Winchester. Her ward is the St Barnabas which operates in the Weeke area and also includes fellow Liberal Democrat Councillor Anne Weir and Conservative Councillor Eileen Berry.

When last recorded, the area of which the St Barnabas ward has effect has 5,513 people living there with an average age of just under 45 years old, over 75% of which are Christian. Over 54% of the population are over 45 years of age. 

I asked the councillor about her ward and the main issues they faced.

"The main problem we seem to face is the public complaining about the parking situations, particularly outside the [Peter Symonds] college. We've tried to resolve this issue many times including introducing parking permits which didn't seem to work. We have had discussions about possibly building a new car park in the area but it is still in the discussion size. It is important never to make promises incase you can't keep them."

Witt, who has another job working at a primary school, was elected as a local councillor after working on a local magazine: "I saw what the other councillors were doing and I knew that I could do it better." The last re-election was in 2010.

When asked how feedback and comments are received from the public, Witt said: "We talk to the public in various ways. We go door to door dropping off surveys and then come back to collect them. They can also e-mail us and find details of the ward online. We like to sort out the current issues."

99 News Bulletin

The Dreyfus Affair

INTRODUCTION

The Dreyfus file, commonly known as the Dreyfus affair, is about a Jewish French artillery officer who was wrongly accused of treason after secret French military documents were found in a bin at the German Embassy in Paris in 1894.

By 1895, Dreyfus had been stripped of his army rank and sent to Devil's Island for a life sentence.

France was now divided; the army, the monarchists and the Catholic church stood in one corner and the  republicans, the socialists and the Jews stood another. At the time France was materialistic and considered the army as a symbol of French identity, there was also hope for vengeance and the army became a status symbol both collectively and individually. The army became the safe keeper of a close tradition society and was racist and anti-Semitic.

In 1896, the real culprit of the crime is found, French army major named Ferdinand Esterhazy, by a man named  Lt Col Piquard. However, high ranking army officials were content with the way things were and suppressed the evidence. Piquard was then sent to serve at the southern border of Tunisia. 

In 1989 a story was written by Emile Zola called J'Accuse. This is one of the most vital happenings for the media in history. It was one of the first stories that actually got shit done; it brought to attention to happenings and unveiled a political scandal. 

The Dreyfus Affair within the media was one which sparked the very nature of investigative journalism. on 28th October a letter was received at Le Libre Parole with information about the Dreyfus case, they proceeded to publish the article about the arrest questioning as to why the military authorities sought to keep it silent, this resulted in a violent press conference and subsequently produced what we know as investigative journalism today.

It worked though, it worked well, and today it is still newspapers uncovering political scandals and world news. For example, the watergate scandal was uncovered by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, which saw the only American president ever to resign, Richard Nixon and many other arrests.

There is also the example of the Daily Mail when they printed a front page with the pictures of five males, with the headline "The Mail accuses these men of killing. if we are wrong, let them sue us". They blatantly identified the murderers of Stephen Lawrence with pictures and names; using the media in a significant way to appeal for justice.

Back to Dreyfus, in 1899 he was pardoned but not acquitted but after no end of public campaigning, seven years later in 1906, he was acquitted, and given his job back with a promotion.

Anti-Semitism and Zionism

The growth of antisemitism has been virulent since the publication of Jewish France by Édouard Drumont in 1886 (150,000 copies in the first year). Jewish emancipation has evolved since the French revolution. Jews were killed in street and the press is virtually free to write and disseminate any information, even when offensive or defamatory. Legal risks are limited if the target is a private person. La Libre Parole newspaper: “France is for French”  allowed Drumont to further expand his audience to a popular readership. 

Bernard Lazare was a French Jewish political journalist and anarchist. In 1894 he wrote about anti-semitism, its history and causes, an in-depth study of the origins of anti-semitism. He believed Jewish assimilation and dissolution would stop such hate. He didn't want to be involved in the Dreyfus affair and said “ the Dreyfus family is wealthy enough to sort themselves out – mainly if he is not guilty”.

Bernard Lazare wrote The State of the Jews in 1896 which envisioned the founding of a future independent Jewish State during the 20th century; the believed the end to anti-semitism could only be achieved if the Jews had a land of their own.

Theodor Herzl was an Austro-Hungarian journalist and writer and is seen as the father of modern political Zionism. and in effect the foundation of the State of Israel, despite being entirely secular. 

HCJ: Karl Marx

Karl Marx

Karl Marx is someone everyone will know, he's a bit of a cliche. He's known as the nation's favourite philosopher. The Daily Mail even ran a double page spread titled 'Marx: The monster' and went on to tell how he was the most dangerous person to ever live.

He wrote the Communist Manifesto which is known as one of the most important documents ever written and is said to be the most dangerous thing that has ever been written down. It was 1848 when the Communist Manifesto was written and it was enough to get him kicked out of any country in Europe.

Marx is pretty different from any other philsopher, he wanted to change the world. He's a physcial and sensual philosopher. He concerns himself with the physcial being and real things; he's called the materialist.

Key Points

He was living in an age of revolution, right across Europe there was revolution and revolt everywhere. Marx felt as if the world was changing and it'd never be the same again. He was strongly influenced by Hegel; everything is in a state of flux, everything is changing. He was also influenced by the dialectic. History was heading somewhere; teliology.

Marx believed everything was economically determined, meaning you're driven by money in a way. For example, if you're going town, it would be pointless if you didn't have any money, therefore, the only reason to go into town would be if you had money. This has been reflected in recent politics when Bill Clinton used the phrase "it's the economy, stupid". Marx believes we think we are happy but we're not really happy. Imagine you go to the country where you cannot speak the language, you cant communicate to people, you can't read the signs. People can appear to be free but are in fact in chains. We don't understand why we're unhappy but the capitalist would say you may have a menial job but you can go and buy something that will make you happy.

However, Communism was around before Marx, he didn't even invent Marxism. It was an idea he developed, but certainly not one he discovered. This became the solution to the problem.

Historical Context

Marx was born to Jewish parents that converted to Christianity. He was alienated in his own country due to the political state at the time in Germany in 1818. The mid 19th to the 20th century is seen as the German century. Hegel believed Germany was the instigator of change, it was the best nation on Earth and it was bringing the zeitgeist to it's eventual destination.

He met Fredrich Engles in Paris in 1844; Marx got kicked out of everywhere and eventually moved to London until his death in 1883.  Engles became Marx's benefactor. He lived longer and could interpret his writing. 

"Philosophers have only interpreted the world - the point is to change it." Marx didn't want people to be passive, he wanted them to be active.

"The theory of communism may be summed up in one sentence; abolish all property"; recalled Locke in Life, Liberty and Property.

For Aristotle man is the rational animal, for Plato the political animal, for Kant the moral animal, for Hegel the historic animal. For Marx man is the productive animal. Mankind creates the environment it inhabits – ‘not a figure in the landscape, but the shaper of the landscape’.

According to Engels, Marx achieved a fusion of Hegelian philosophy, British empiricism and French revolutionary politics, in particular socialist politics.

He was scientific, he liked raw and proper data; figures and facts. He came to the conclusion that the capitalist system was amazing, but in this was the seeds of it's own downfall because inevitably, it couldn't be maintained. There would be a moment when everyone would have money, then no one would and it would happen again and again and eventually the system would collapse. He believed that for the first time in history, the poor were organised in factories, working for the capitalist system.

The real dialectic idealism was based in the real world.

HCJ: Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

Schopenhauer is known as a more contemporary Hegel. Both were students of Kant but disagreed with each other's philosophies; Hegel's ideas were more influential and recognised whereas Schopenhauer's ideas were more similar to Kant. 

He is an immaterialist; he believes that the world doesn't exist independently of perception but does believe that their must have be something to start the world; an uncaused cause or a formless matter. He agrees with Kant's philosophy of the dual nature of objects; the phenomena and the noumena. However, he doesn't agree everything can be seen as a thing in itself, the only actual thing that can be perceived as a thing in itself is existence. He describes this as the will.

The will, however, isn't God or a purpose. Schopenhauer believed there was no purpose for life and everything was arbitrary. The will was just the driving force of the universe which he believed was a curse; the constant need for fulfilment. He thought life was nothing but misery, pain and eventually death. In fact, he even thought suicide was the best thing a person could do in life. You could fight against the will but you could never win as he believed the will was evil. There was temporary eases of the pain such as drugs or music but they didn't last long, and suicide was the easiest and most permanent escape.

HCJ: Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"Everything happens for a reason" is a phrase we all know, as essentially comes from Hegelian beliefs. He was teleologist, he believed the world was moving to an end and everything in it had a purpose that was willed by The Geist; the Absolute.

It is hard to define what Hegel means by the Geist; it is never referred to as God but more of a ghost or spirit. He believes everything is connected as one whole but reject pantheist beliefs, that the world is one simple being, but sees everything in the world as part of one complex system.

One of Hegel's key ideas was the dialectical thesis. It backs up his view the world is moving towards an end.  The idea combines a thesis and it's anti-thesis in order to create a synthesis. For example, combining the rise of Greece, being the thesis, followed by the dark ages, being the anti-thesis, and finally being followed by the enlightenment, being the synthesis. In very basic terms, it's combining an idea with the opposite of the idea to reach to compromise in between the two.

Hegel believes knowledge as a whole is also a tripartite system; first it starts with sense perception, secondly there is raw data gathered is subjected to sceptical criticism in our minds and finally there is self knowledge.

He says war in necessary, he doesnt say he supports it in any way but he think it will naturally happen and is a fan of Machiavelli. His views on seem to be human nature are similar. However, unlike Machiavelli, he was the only philosopher that believed America was going to be very important. Hegel also thinks time is part of alienation and not knowing the true meaning of things.

Five Things America Taught Me

Last month I went to America to visit an old friend of mine living in Michigan, Andrew Hill. I stayed for two weeks at his house with his absolutely incredible family and learned a bit about what it was like to be a true American. These are five of the most important lessons I learnt... roughly.

You can have bacon on anything.

As we all know, I'm a huge fan of bacon... and American's love it. And I'm talking the real bacon too, streaky and crispy. It's treated as a snack, like English people would treat peanuts. I had it at least once a day and I had at least a million different varieties. Chocolate covered bacon, desert bacon covered in brown sugar and almonds, bacon and syrup... you name it, it was available. I even went to one diner called Denny's who had a bacon menu including bacon milkshakes and bacon chocolate brownies. Amazing.

You can similarly have butter on anything.

None of this margarine crap, full fat, salted, proper butter. One thing I particularly loved it on was Pop Tarts. I know this sounds strange, and I was disgusted at the idea when I was first offered buttered Pop Tarts but it was so delicious. It takes away the sickliness and add a salty taste, making any tart the best treat in the world. I should have added bacon...

Beer pong is a necessary talent to have.

Why English people don't play beer pong, I'll never know. After going to a paint party (which was insane, shown in the video above), my friend and I went back to his friend's house and I was challenged to a game of beer pong, which shortly became a tournament with everyone in the house. American's take their sports seriously and beer pong should definitely be considered a sport. Learn how to play before you ever travel to America.... seriously.

Archer is incredible.

Imagine a mixture of the television programme American Dad and CSI. That is what Archer is. I watched one episode and was instantly addicted. It is based on a secret agent named Sterling Archer who is basically a dumb ass cartoon version of James Bond working for ICIS with a range of hilariously strange and offensive characters. Since leaving the states, I have in fact seen every episode of every season. Watch it.

Wendy's burgers are better than McDonald's.

I know there are those of you that may read this and think these are traitorous words... I'm sorry, but it's true. I had my fair share of Wendy's and McDonald's there and Wendy's wins hands down any day. Even a junior bacon cheeseburger is bigger than a standard size burger from English McDonald's AND they make the best spicy chicken nuggets I have ever tasted. I got six nuggets for something like $0.79, which is about £0.50. Plus, they definitely know what a large coke really is. 

Five Timeless Summer Anthems

The shirts are off, the Ray Bans are on and the music is up... this can only mean one thing, summer is round the corner!

The 2013 top summer tracks are still to come, but let's not forget the timeless anthems that you should be blasting out of your iPod docking stations whilst sunbathing in the garden, singing to with the windows rolled down driving home from work or simply getting ready with your laptop speakers almost blowing.

At number 5 we have Mumford and Sons with 'Little Lion Man'. The London folk quartet released the song in 2009 and it was soon to become a top hit, putting the band on the 'music map', if you will...

In at number four is the unforgettable Two Door Cinema Club with 'Something Good Can Work'. This is one of my personal all time favourites, nothing like a good old optimistic song to make you smile. It was the first song released by the Irish band and I have no doubt that they will be the sound of summer this year.

Next at number three is MGMT's song 'Kids'. It can only be described as ear-tingling, electro popping, weird ass goodness. Seriously, that's all I got.

Just missing out on the top spot at number two is Vampire Weekend with 'A-Punk'. Whether you like this song or not, it is undeniably catchy and will stick in your mind for an awfully long time. It's contagious... like an infectious, catchy and musical disease.

And finally, the number one timeless summer anthem that should be blaring from your speakers is Noah and the Whale's absolute tune 'Five Years Time'. If you can listen to this song without smiling, then something is wrong with you. If you manage to whistle along the entire away, I commend you.