Have We Simply Substituted Façade for Substance?
David Hajdu, the music critic for The New Republic, seems to think so, as he addresses the recent sale of YouTube for mega bucks to the guys at Google, in an op-ed piece in today's New York Times. Let me spoil his joke by revealing his punch line: "Like a great many of the people on YouTube clips … Chad and Steve [co-founders] treat themselves as a joke without bothering to be funny."
Hajdu's thesis is that the tell all medium reveals little more about us than that there seems little enough to reveal. But then maybe Hajdu is just jealous of that $1.65 billion payday the boys just walked into, provided Google's stock value remains high.
David Hajdu, the music critic for The New Republic, seems to think so, as he addresses the recent sale of YouTube for mega bucks to the guys at Google, in an op-ed piece in today's New York Times. Let me spoil his joke by revealing his punch line: "Like a great many of the people on YouTube clips … Chad and Steve [co-founders] treat themselves as a joke without bothering to be funny."
Hajdu's thesis is that the tell all medium reveals little more about us than that there seems little enough to reveal. But then maybe Hajdu is just jealous of that $1.65 billion payday the boys just walked into, provided Google's stock value remains high.
posted by Jim | 1:49 AM
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