I’m not a big fan of G4. I appreciate the effort they put into the programming, but in all honesty I’ve never been able to overlook the brazen pandering the network makes to the stereotypes of its audience. It bugs the hell out of me that G4 feels that in order to maintain its audience it needs to lower the bar, not raise it. What if ESPN had taken that approach to legitimizing sports broadcast journalism? Conversely, what if instead of putting so much emphasis on objectifying women and emulating l33t-speak on-air, G4 focused its creative efforts on real investigative journalism, and on lifting the veil off the secretive and enigmatic industry they’re supposedly covering?
Don’t get me wrong- I understand the need for ratings, and the need to fill programming slots with more than just Cops reruns and hard news segments. But there aren’t ANY real news segments on G4. At all. That’s a world of difference from a network like ESPN, which has struck a fine balance between news programming like SportsCenter and less serious content like SportsNation and Pardon the Interruption. That’s why ESPN isn’t just watched by sports fans- it’s respected by sports fans.
Maybe if G4 respected its audience more, it would stop trying to grab the low-hanging fruit and put more of its energy into actually winning the respect of the 18-34 year-old gamer audience it tries so hard to capture.
Kevin Pereira Also Out At G4 [Blip]Kotaku
Two weeks ago, we reported that Adam Sessler had parted ways with television network G4TV. Today, popular Attack of the Show host Kevin Pereira said he is also leaving the network. [G4TV] More »
How to Make XBMC Easier to Use (Especially for Non-Geeks) [Xbmc]Lifehacker
So you’ve created a kickass, play-anything media center with XBMC, but it’s a too hard for your less tech-savvy friends and family members to use. Here are a few ways to make your home theater PC so easy that your four year old could use it. More »
Bullshit on this one, EA. I can maybe see if at one point you were planning on shutting down your game, changed your mind, and some department just didn’t get the memo in time. But that’s NOT THE SAME THING as what you’re claiming. Considering how much flak you’ve been taking lately, and how much of it has been deserved, you would do well to just come clean and show some transparency on this one.
Yesterday, customers with the iO…
Who else would’ve come up with such crazy tech, especially so far ahead of their competitors? Sure, they’re still technically in the arcade hardware business, but that industry is a shadow of what it once was. Without a home console, SEGA can’t bring cutting-edge tech like 3D glasses to home audiences, a’la the most awesome game to play when drunk ever made?
Seriously, this figure is epic.
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Hey! I'm Mike, this is my blog. and my dream is to use my middling tech skills to make the world a better place (not in the techno-libertarian, "the world is a better place if I get mine" sense, but in the actual, "I want to help" sense).
