Comments on: Diss-Content… as only the SABC can

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:01:24 +0000

eloquently put – well played

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By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:59:28 +0000

Go Brandon! Write about cricket so you can reference Palahniuk. Tolstoy for the SABC. How ingenuously po-mo amigo. What’s next? Well the cops are cooking the crime-stats now that’s just dripping with potential for pearls from Chomsky, Foucaul, Orwell and then some!

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:10:47 +0000

Great article; very good and entwertaining read. All I want to know is ;WHEN AM I GETTING MY MONEY?! Jeez,man. Just pay us,guys!

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By: Testing

Testing — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:34:49 +0000

At the risk of being a snob, there are alternative voices, telling great stories, with powerful and invovating non-cliched.. visual metaphors etc.
One can see a lot of this new cinema at the Durban International Film Festival and Encounters and other fine festivals, and it is even possible to meet the creatives!
Independent cinema, and new voices must be heard. And yes if we ever get good internet these and other voices will be readily available.
Who can give these fine voices a space on the tube? Only with the hegemony of commercial support can they get on TV and these forces will only support stories that tell the lies that make us all buy and buy more. Thanks for the great reporting and comments thus far.

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By: Dolla

Dolla — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:26:55 +0000

On point.

Have to disagree about one thing though: a slice of melktert does makes everything better.

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By: Nathan Zeno

Nathan Zeno — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:05:56 +0000

The problem with just getting all your shit on the net or off hard drives is essentially it’s all from another country that finances that stuff through television broadcasts and cinema distribution. As we know, nobody in this country watches enough local cinema because generally it’s not that good. Why isn’t it good, because TV is where you learn the craft of storytelling. And The SABC, ETV and MNET certainly aren’t helping that along right now by commissioning anything remotely individual or non derivative. So yeah, wo hoo! Lets watch shit on You Tube, one world channel here we come! You probably liked Transformers 2 for the story (Not the giant fighting robot breasts)

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By: Big Bob Igor

Big Bob Igor — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:39:03 +0000

Great article!

I personally have long abandoned broadcast television for:

-internet tv (watch a lecture on fusion one day, Obamas full inaugaration speech and mindless youtube the next)
-the video store (pick what you want to see) and
- (less ethically) harddrives full of stuff from friends.

I am not sure how long this type of viewing will take to saturate our population, maybe another 10 years? No place will exist for the Snukis of this world in that new order.

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By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:59:41 +0000

Hit the nail on the top bit. Being forced to watch SABC TV to research this piece musta been a living hell. Maximam respek

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By: Zoe

Zoe — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:24:09 +0000

Awesome article.

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By: Joerg

Joerg — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:22:40 +0000

Love the piece.

I wonder how much longer TV is going to be around for anyway. Does anybody still get value out of it? We’re in the middle of a paradigm shift – away from TV, and toward the Internet, where you don’t get dumbed-down “broadcast” shoved down your throat, and can actually participate in the culture. All the old media is now available on the Internet – from phones (Skype), to radio (last.fm) to TV (youtube) – where they all mix freely together – including email and messaging and social media. And YouTube is a lot more entertaining than SABC.

I can’t figure out what the TV offers me, that the Internet doesn’t. I downloaded all five seasons of The Wire.

I feel outraged filling the SABC’s board’s personal pockets. I feel outraged that the producers – the actual content providers – the doers – that they are the ones NOT getting my tax money.

It doesn’t make sense, and is unsustainable. Sure – not all of us have Internet – but that will change over time, while the Internet slowly replaces all old media from magazines, to radio, to telephone, to newspapers, to TV.

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