Media Casualties of the YouTube Revolution
posted by on January 16 at 10:41 AM
The YouTube era has blessed our daily lives with an avalanche of riches, from the pleasures of instant replay TV to the ability to watch that woman fall through that trap door 500 times in a row.
One casualty of the YouTube revolution: slideshows, the parade-of-still-photos-on-a-common-theme which always kinda sucked and became 40 billion times less appealing once full-action footage was readily available.
Still, some media outlets are refusing to let slideshows go the way of the 8-track—most notably, New York’s WCBS-TV, which has upped the slideshow ante with a series of mildly salacious and spicily bizarre photo collections.
May I recommend Stars Killed By Gunfire? Or this parade of closeted gay stars of yesteryear?
Congrats to WCBS for their invention, and thanks to Defamer for the heads-up.
Hey David: If a YouTube is available of Sacha Baron Cohen's Golden Globe acceptance speech for best actor ("Borat") last evening, please post if possible. Insofar as I'm concerned, it's the first time the acronym LOL has ever been applicable.
Great. I had no idea Raymond Burr was gay, and now I'll be picturing him as a daddy bear for the rest of my days.
David,
As always, you are the diamond of the Slog, surround by the rough, consisting of post from the news chimps. They actually have Jim West in the Closeted Gay slideshow.
SD
the 'closeted' show is fucktarded...Capote was very out...
Apparently, Divine was closeted.
Okay.
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