Sir Elton John: "we must close the net"
By Jonathan Schlaffer
There will always be naysayers but who would have thought that Sir Elton John would come out and say that the Internet needs to be shut down. It may be his opinion but it simply isn’t going to happen. The Internet is not a centralized network though it can be severely crippled by shutting down certain areas of it, like sections of California, for instance. It could not be completely shut down, barring a global disaster of the EMP (electromagnetic pulse) kind.
He claims that the Internet is destroying good music. He continued by saying the world isn’t going to change with people sitting at home and blogging and that people don’t get out and communicate any more. Sure they do, instead of meeting in person, we IM each other which is a form of communication.
He doesn’t believe in technology, not owning an iPod or a cell phone and of course, opposes illegal downloads of his music from the Internet but that too would be difficult to stop. However, some of his music is available from several (legal) online sources not the least of which is the iTunes Store.
Overall he feels that all the new technology has degraded the quality of music that is released saying to The Sun, “In the early Seventies there were at least ten albums released every week that were fantastic. Now you’re lucky to find ten albums a year of that quality. And there are more albums released each week now than there were then.”
I’d tend to agree with that since JackFM is one of the most popular FM radio stations in my area, playing mostly classic rock and 80’s music, I do not think that’s a coincidence.
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August 2nd, 2007
This article did not meet journalistic standards or in any way represent any real information that we didn’t already know. Why don’t you have article ratings on here? Afraid of the backlash?
August 2nd, 2007
There’s a source, the information in the article is conveyed in this post and the information is real. Just because you already knew it, doesn’t mean others didn’t and Elton John commenting on the matter is slightly humorous to me.
If you could elaborate on your definition of “journalistic standards” I’d like to hear it.
We don’t have article ratings because the code is not ready to be deployed, that’s the truth, of course, I don’t expect you to believe me.
August 2nd, 2007
Hi KellyC… article ratings you say…
August 5th, 2007
Jon boy, you’re missing KellyC’s point. Your “articles” aren’t journalism, even in Web 2.0. Just because you have a source with real information and decide to write about it, that doesn’t make it journalism, anymore than someone writing a letter to their mom about what they heard about on TV. Just the fact that you make it public over a web site does not mean that what you are writing is news. Fortunately, KellyC, there is already a rating system in place that is managing the flow of information for “articles” like these, I’ve alluded to it in other recent posts which I won’t bother to link to here, simply because the base “articles” are equally as bad as this one. Unfortunately for blorge, the rating mechanism is not one controlled on this board. The rating system is the spam filters out there on the ‘net. Most of my recent blorge newsletters, including this one, I’ve had to pull out of the spam bin, despite filters I have in place marking it as news and trying to preserve it. So apparently enough other people out there have been marking it as spam/junk that the decision on blorge content has already been made. I think the next time I see Blorge in my spam box, I’ll just leave it there. See KellyC, sometimes the best thing to do with a turd is simply to flush.
August 5th, 2007
Or we just have different definitions of news, it seems both of you fail to realize this was supposed to be slightly humorous… I guess not.
I’d remind you, we were not the only site to report on this so I guess all the others are just as lame and pointless as well.