the zeitgeist report

The NYTimes found a blog about the death of TV:

ONE recent week, the video blog Rocketboom drew an average of 200,000 people a day to watch its short daily news reports on technology, the arts and other topics.

"The Abrams Report" on MSNBC, meanwhile, drew 215,000 viewers to its weekday hourlong show about legal issues.

Does this anecdote — that an unpopular cable news show and a wildly popular Web site draw similarly sized audiences — prove that the Internet is upending the economics of the television business? It does for Prince Campbell, a former media executive who runs the Chartreuse (BETA) blog.

Mr. Campbell wields superlatives in a particularly bloggish manner at chartreuse.wordpress.com . "Broadcast television is dead," he declares. "Just like the Internet killed the music industry, it's about to do the same thing to broadcast TV."

There are some interesting ideas. Check it out!

This on the success of American Idol, which is frequently sited as evidence that TV is alive and well:

American Idol is not Television.

American Idol is MySpace under the guise of a TV show.