Topic: So there I was tootling along in my Roller...

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Also, in what way has Mr. King remained the same, and how has that been achieved?

[Jemble Fred]

Speaking as someone who's been working full time in magazine publishing for ten years, with seven years experience beyond that, nothing is the same – absolutely no element of how anything is approached, carried out, paid for, researched, sold – everything is completely different. That's only one form of media, but the idea that 'everything remains the same' is unquestionably nonsense for magazine publishing.

[copylight]

but the idea that 'everything remains the same' is unquestionably nonsense for magazine publishing.

I appreciate your credentials Jem but you make the point yourself that the face of the media is always changing, regardless of decade-like distinctions, and that was my point to begin with. Mcluhan notwithstanding, the media has laws of psychology and commerce that have also been around a long time.

[Jemble Fred]

But it's the nuts and bolts, the actual physical way in which media products are created, marketed etc, that's changed beyond recognition. Which is rather annoying if you signed up for a job in a certain media long ago, when things were easier, jollier, more artistically fulfilling.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Jemble, what he means is...

Dealers keep dealin’
Thieves keep thievin’
Whores keep whorin’
Junkies keep scorin’
Trade is on the meat rack
Strip joints full of hunchbacks
Bitches keep bitchin’
Clap keeps itchin’

Ain’t no use in prayin’
That’s the way it’s stayin’, baby
Johnny ain’t so crazy
He’s always got a line for the ladies
(yeah, yeah, yeah)

Get your rocks off
Get your rocks off, honey
Shake it now now
Get’em off downtown
Get your rocks off
Get you rocks off, honey
Shake it now now
Get’em off downtown

Creeps keep crawlin’
Drunks keep fallin’
Teasers keep teasein’
Holy joes are preachin’
Cops keep bustin’
Hustlers keep hustlin’
Death keeps knockin’
Souls are up for auction

Ain’t no use in prayin’
That’s the way it’s stayin’, baby
Johnny ain’t so crazy
He’s always got a line for the ladies
(yeah, yeah, yeah)

Get your rocks off
Get your rocks off, honey
Shake it now now
Get’em off downtown
Get your rocks off
Get you rocks off, honey
Shake it now now
Get’em off downtown

[copylight]

J.K is Scottish?

[Jonathan King]

Media has changed in it's now far more powerful but also there is more of it - so alternate views and evidence can be presented... and the power is in different areas... internet has radically changed things, so has the new technology (a news room is no longer the noisy place it used to be). Morality has altered both for good and for bad. It's harder to get away with things (like tapping phones). DNA has both captured the guilty who thought they had got away with it and wrongly helped convict the innocent. Media condemns people like Sally Clark then finds it harder to pretend they never did - evidence lasts longer online. It's a totally different world.