Mediawhore living is…
Being called up out of the blue friday afternoon while at your hairdresser by a journalist from the national television broadcaster on a very short deadline.
Had been recommended by a friend – the journalist wants an “it-expert” to comment on record industry’s attitude towards downloading/cd-burning/filesharing/etc.
Asking for a 10 minute think pause to think it through. Frantically trying to reach some people who really should do the interview , consulting with a few friends whether one should do it.
Finally reasoning that if i didn’t do it only the record industry would get their view through in the news story and that i had some strong view points on the issue.
The mass media broadcast system is fucked as always. A journalist on a very tight deadline who allready has decided on the story/angle – only looking for a somewhat qualified “expert”-face to put his soundbytes into.
The well balanced reasoned analysis you very carefully prepared in the 15 minutes you got to prepare!, reduced to some naive simplistic 8 second soundbyte.
But what the heck – somebody had to do it and i made the call that i hoped that i could deliver it.
We’ll see tonight on the evening news together with 10-15% of Denmark’s population.
Fuck.