I’m so damn sick of the predictability of the news and the predictable people who react to it. Here’s a sampling of two news stories I found in about 90 seconds this afternoon:
Predictably, every shuttle mission is now about what kind of condition the thermal tiles are in. Until the next catastrophic shuttle event, the thermal tiles will always be the focus of the painfully predictable media. And NASA will have to play along to prevent the predictable media from attempting to whip up the public into a predictable frenzy about allegedly neglected thermal tiles.
And it’s also time for the predictable semi-annual “OMG!!1! TEH I-POD IS DYING111!!!” article by a major news outlet, or perhaps several, if they decide to predictably echo each other. And the predictable responses.
“People hate DRM!”
“It’s just a fashion accessory.”
“It only sells because of marketing.”
“The batteries suck.”
“blah blah the iPod bubble blah blah” (everything’s a bubble now)
“blah blah [some personal comment about Steve Jobs] blah blah”
Predictable. Tired. Annoying.
Is there anyone reading this article who can’t predict, with some degree of accuracy, what the usual politicians will say tomorrow? How about Al Qaeda? News pundits? Talkshow hosts? All predictable. How about the vapid man-on-the-street interviews your local television station will predictably conduct, where they seem to find the stupidest possible people to say the stupidest and most factually bereft possible things? Will you be surprised tomorrow when it happens? Are you looking forward to it?
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September 16th, 2006 at 9:57 am
What about this headline on the bbc news web site today?
“”"iPod fans ’shunning iTunes store’
Despite the success of Apple’s iTunes, few people stock their iPod with tracks from its online store, a study says.”"”
This is crazy: I’ve bought quite a number of tracks from the iTunes store but it’s still true the majority of tracks on my ipod are from my own cd collection. Of course I want to have my cd collection on my ipod. If I get a track from the iTunes store I really like I very likely want to buy the cd.
Headlines like that are written just to make headlines: there is no way you can say people are shunning the iStore just because they mainly rip their cds to their ipods: I wish to state that I am a great enthusiast for the iTunes music store, it does a great service — and I still like having my cd collection on my ipod.
[And I am not in any way in the employ of the company that runs iTunes, before anyone asks....]