Digital Celebrities

partridge writes "Carson Daly's simulacrum is the new Max Headroom. I guess this makes Clear Channel Communications the current embodiment of Network 23? Now we just have to wait for the blipverts to start making consumer's heads explode."

Comments

The long, slow, death of the DJ.

[Fugly]

The on-air personality is inches away from being a thing of the past. I have a lot of friends that work in radio. Most of them have had the stations they work for bought by clear channel. Most of my friends that are still on-air personalities (many are unemployeed these days) are being pumped out to at least 3 stations with little tweaks being done to the audio to make it sound like they are local. Frequently celebrity interviews are mocked up from a stock tape of the celebrity answering questions with the DJ's voice dubbed between even.

I keep hoping that eventually people will notice how sterile, packaged and crappy it is and that independent stations will be able to compete by way of superior programming. However, apparently people don't give a rats ass. They don't even notice how shitty radio is these days.

Re:porn stars

[stratjakt]

>>Is it still cheaper to pay real people to do it all?

Let's see..

CGI rendered porn model - millions in development, artwork and rendering time, plus expensive render farms to do the computations.

Drug addict in her late teens - $20 worth of crack and a Sony Handycam.

Yes, it's cheaper.