To explore further where the media industry is going I started this blog. I work in the media industry. I’m not convinced that mainstream media does the good job it claims to. In fact my own experience of it has been a story of moral compromise. I only came back into journalism and TV three years ago, after a twelve year stint in industry. I’m surprised by what I see. People prepared to work for nothing, people forced to work for very little, people prepared to treat the creative process as a production line.
Last year I completed a film that drew an audience of 3 million on the BBC, and my press articles are read by an audience of half a million, then they get circulated around the web.
So far this blog has had 36 visitors. In terms of exposure to an audience it is the worst investment of time I could make. On the other hand it gets me asking questions about why I write and what I’m trying to achieve. I know I’m a net gainer by writing it, but have yet to work out exactly how.
