Reddit, PBS launch TV show
Social news aggregator Reddit, a less popular version of Digg that was bought by Conde Nast recently, announced with PBS today a weekly TV program called yourweek:
It's a weekly television news program powered by you (really). Material for the show will come from hot stories on the reddit front page every week. Meta discussions about that content and the show itself will all take place at yourweek.reddit, so please submit all your wittiest and smartest comments there. And don't worry, the pilot (and hopefully all the future shows) will be available online.
New Republic senior editor Michelle Cottle and the National Review's Rich Lowry will host.
I continue to be skeptical of meta-news wrap-up shows like these, simply because video is an inefficient way of collating news stories, relying on smarmy hosts to belabor tepid puns about current events. I shouldn't pre-judge; for all I know, yourweek will be well-produced and entertaining. But I still don't need video to recap the news I already read.
A bit like Current TV, no? I like the progressive, user-generated approach. Finding appealing content may be a problem, but the fact that an established institution like PBS is letting viewers set the agenda is noteworthy.
Posted by: Idil Cakim | May 28, 2008 at 08:21 AM