Re: How is technology changing media?

Description: The quantity of videos online represents 40,000 years of viewing, Cayla says.

Question: How is technology changing the media?

Transcript: Everybody can get some news from the Internet. I read somewhere that in 2006, the quantity of videos which has been put on the Net represents 40,000 years of viewing. So you can imagine nobody can watch so much. So which means that the politics today is not so much to retrieve videos – to retrieve images – but to select, to filter, to check images. And which means that ______, the work is more to be sure where the news comes from, where the images come from, where the ________. So some have been trapped already. I don’t know if you know that some channels have been trapped by some images of _________ supposed to represent hunting in Iraq. And it was both caused by some ______ in Europe. I don’t know in the U.S., but Europe ______. And after checking, it appears that it was a hunting in Scotland, not only in Iraq. And it was a fake made by a Scottish _______. So it means _____ of course, there is a lot of work to check. We don’t need to send out so many journalists on the field, because there is always somebody on the field who had a few who is already there. And he makes it. He takes a picture. Everybody has a good camera now. And he puts his video on the Net, so his image is out there. What does it mean? What does it represent? So that’s where the real work is, to check. And after that to offer to the customer, to the viewer, something which is checked. That’s . . . That seems ________.

In terms of broadcasting, I think that the _____ of broadcasting, watching the TV channel, _______ will also lose interest because you have already . . . if you subscribe to digital package like cable, or digital cable, or digital satellite, you have 200, 300 channels. You can’t watch all these channels. Even the news channels are too many. So I think the future lies in video on demand and video alerts. I think if we subscribe to video alerts, and we send you a message on your mobile, alert, you will watch a video which will show you exactly what the breaking news is. I think there is much future in that. So check information and video alert on demand.

Question: Do you feel a pressure to keep up with the blogoshpere?

Transcript: At least not from my show. _______ happy ______ we have. And the audience is growing without making such concessions, I will say. So we don’t feel a need of doing that, no. The audience we have wants to have serious news, I would say. ______. We are serious, maybe boring sometimes. But at least the people who watch us, _______ population , of course. It’s two or three _______ of the population which watch news channels and no more than that. It’s some kind of elite in some sense. But the people who watch news channels want to have something serious. And so we don’t feel any need of changing our identity to get an audience.

Question: Will user-generated news transform established media?

Transcript: Most of the material which is called news by Al Jazeera ____ is local, very local. And so ______ for local news channel for local distribution. If you put your videos on Yahoo, or Google, or whatever, that may have some appeal for local, you would say; or for France, for your community. But to get to have an international value is something else, you know? It’s a challenge for a video to have some value in the international market. It has to be something very specific, very rare in some sense. So if part of this user-generated content has some value, it will be selected by some ____, by some search engines, and we will use it if it has some value. But for the time being, it’s very rare. For the time being, in fact, the best we can get from user-generated content is through traditional agencies . . . through _____ and through the__ press. They use it, they select it. And when they provide it to us, we use it.

Recorded on: 7/2/07