Saturday, October 31, 2009

Znaimer's Manifesto re Television

Znaimer's Manifesto re Television - implications for Mission ?. . .

1: Television is the triumph of the image over the printed word.

2: The live nature of television is flow, not show; process, not conclusion.

3: A global television expands the demand for local programming increases.

4: The best TV tells me what happened to me, today.

5: TV is as much about the people bringing you the story as the story itself.

6: In the past, TV's chief operating skill was political. In the future, it will have to be mastery of the craft itself.

7: Print created illiteracy, TV is democratic. Everybody gets it.

8: TV creates immediate consensus, subject to immediate change.

9: There never was a mass audience, except by compulsion.

10: Television is not a problem to be managed; but an instrument to be played.