Rick Sanchez Mixes His Medias

Just wanted to start off by saying Happy Halloween! Probably the best holiday of the year, if you're asking me.

Anyways, yesterday I mentioned Rick Sanchez. Rick is a CNN news anchor who is famous for incorporating social media outlets into his newscast. Readers can send him messages on Myspace, Facebook, or Twitter and some or them will be read on the air.

At first I felt that he seemed to be simply leveraging the new media simply because it seemed to be the hip thing to do. In addition to that, it felt like he was, in a way, cheapening new media by putting it on the same level as the blunderous mass. It came off as an uncomfortable and awkward mix of medias, that didn't really contribute anything more to the show.

Anyways, a little while ago, I noticed that Sanchez was not only getting on the social media bandwagon, but possibly jacking one of it's favourite phrases and slapping it over the that famous CNN ticker. Frankly, that got me a little ticked myself.

On the other hand, his heart seems to be in the right place. And as I commented on the cloudid article, anyone that is recognizing the significance of new media and utilizing it help modernize age-old things like the typical newscast, well that smells like progress to me.

So Rick, I think your alright.

Yeah, maybe mass media and social media do mix like oil and vinegar. But it still makes for some good grub. ^_^

What do you think? Should we be using applications like facebook to help the get the public to be more involved in the mass media? Or are they seperate for a reason?

Speaking of Twittering, I just got my own twitter account. Feel free to follow me here. :)