Xeni at Boing Boing gathers a couple of good links on the nominations for the "emerging media" category at the Emmys. It's mostly old media names, with multiple nominations for the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Perhaps more oddly than the slant towards newspapers is the fact that television was shut out on the category. The co-chair of the committee for the category observed that,
The traditional networks, if they send somebody out to do a story, essentially their priority for the moment is to service their primary outlet of television[....] Newspapers, I think have always wished they could be in television, but they didn't have a television network. Now they essentially have one: it's called the Web. [source: LA Times article]
So in a weird way, the newspaper industry's dynamic-media envy may make them better suited to thinking about the web.
There will be, I think, much handwringing over the fact that more edgy, new-media-native pieces from organizations or individuals who've never done print or TV or film weren't nominated. But we're talking about the Emmys; it's not like they're going to turn on a dime. Even in the age of the web, it's going to be a long revolution. If you think otherwise, you're not thinking critically about all those Microsoft and Apple ads you've seen.
[via Boing Boing]
Posted by johndanseven at July 6, 2006 01:32 AM