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Fortunately, what the media decides to take interest in does not necessarily coincide with what is actually cool, interesting, innovative, or profitable. But if

Fortunately, what the media decides to take interest in does not necessarily coincide with what is actually cool, interesting, innovative, or profitable. But if you want press for the glorification of your ego, there are a variety of avenues you can take.

jamesbritt 17y ago
We'd have a more interesting society if there was as much appreciation for biz mags proffering "30 over 30" gee-whiz start-up stories as there is for the more common "30 under 30". It's not a matter of personal ego (graying geekster though I may be) but helping more people doing more things get the attention they deserve. It's about broadening people's scope of the world they live in.
thwarted 17y ago
The rare event here is that a million pounds were made and how the person did it, not that the person who did it is a certain age. A 50 year old making a million pounds in the same way would be just as much of an interesting story. "The media" likes to present youthful success as an exception (perhaps because, as we all know, the youth of today are lazy do-nothings who need hair cuts and should get off my lawn), when it's just as much of an exception, at these levels of success, at nearly all age groups. You don't see stories with headlines like "50 year old computer geek makes £1m with online game", it would just be "online game makes £1m" or would mention the person's name rather than hiding their identity behind an anonymous age. It's semi-presented as though the young don't deserve success, or shouldn't be able to do something interesting because they don't have as much experience as people at some other random cut-off age, when really that has nothing to do with it at all. It's sensationalistic. Although, I admit that complaining about sensationalism in journalism isn't very interesting in itself. Maybe I'm too young to buck the trend and complain about something, and seek change, in an interesting fashion.

jamesbritt 17y ago

We'd have a more interesting society if there was as much appreciation for biz mags proffering "30 over 30" gee-whiz start-up stories as there is for the more common "30 under 30". It's not a matter of personal ego (graying geekster though I may be) but helping more people doing more things get the attention they deserve. It's about broadening people's scope of the world they live in.

thwarted 17y ago

The rare event here is that a million pounds were made and how the person did it, not that the person who did it is a certain age. A 50 year old making a million pounds in the same way would be just as much of an interesting story. "The media" likes to present youthful success as an exception (perhaps because, as we all know, the youth of today are lazy do-nothings who need hair cuts and should get off my lawn), when it's just as much of an exception, at these levels of success, at nearly all age groups. You don't see stories with headlines like "50 year old computer geek makes £1m with online game", it would just be "online game makes £1m" or would mention the person's name rather than hiding their identity behind an anonymous age. It's semi-presented as though the young don't deserve success, or shouldn't be able to do something interesting because they don't have as much experience as people at some other random cut-off age, when really that has nothing to do with it at all. It's sensationalistic. Although, I admit that complaining about sensationalism in journalism isn't very interesting in itself. Maybe I'm too young to buck the trend and complain about something, and seek change, in an interesting fashion.