In recent years, the video industry in hong kong has been caught in a cold winter. As powerful as hong kong's film tycoon tycoon has had to reduce its investment in films and its frequency; the big tvb is also facing a sharp decline in production from the drama, and must rely more on co-production partner support, and “activismless” is becoming a common phenomenon. Today, the recession has spread to hong kong entertainment media — the hong kong circle — and is becoming less newsworthy。
This “famine of material” presents three deformities in hong kong's media today:
I. Old bottled new wine: infinity "back with" fried rice
If you look at the daily delivery of hong kong entertainment media such as entertainment 01, aam730, star island recreation, new holidays, east new land, you will find that recent reports are increasingly tending to dig up old tvb materials and dig deeper into old rumours about the past in the city. Some of the so-called “new stories” are simply updates to past dramas or bouquets, so that many internet users can't stop looking at them and saying they know each other。
In the east new land, for example, its facebook account often presents old stories. Last year, when wang ho-shin danced live in a tremor, the media immediately launched an “archaeological model” and successive stories of his marriage with chen were transmitted years ago. The whole story was just a few sarcasms at the beginning and at the end, and 90 percent of it was a replay。
In addition, some of the youtube channels run by former tvb performers, the shivering accounts, have also been the main targets of these recreational materials. For example, lepeter, o'kinnon, wu kailler and others have been on the page because they often talk about tvb. In particular, when they refer to such radio highs as leighing and jin-jin, the media can even provide extensive feature coverage for this purpose, constantly updating the “squeeze tooth”。
Ii. Useless news: a scrap of wool
In the past, the production of video productions in hong kong was high, and it was possible to produce big news through new film openings, expeditions, killings, premieres, and premieres, supplemented by the gossip of a big star, singers and singers, who staged red concerts. But now that the current line is completely out of order, once the media has caught a piece of news, they have to stare at it。
For example, the previous zhongsumi affair, the lee family dispute, and the rumour that yang si qi had been bullied for at least half a month in each of the media, with more than 30 articles and a complete chewing of one thing。
Of course, passive journalism is not the style of hong kong media. In the midst of a lack of focus, the social accounts of artists have become a living straw for journalists. With a few photos of life or a single word of emotion from instagram, threads, the media have been able to extend to an unlimited number of horror stories about “shattering thinness”, “state courage”, and “suspect marriage”, to the limit of “intuitiveness”。
Introduction of “external assistance”: large-scale inland heat search
There's no news in the local entertainment business, so we'll introduce entertainment news in the interior. In the past, mainland entertainment or overseas stars had only a small corner in hong kong and were quite marginal; but what now? Local traffic stars often come to hong kong's front page。
For example, zhao ruth's disputes with the brokerage company, the list of guests that come out of every " wind break " or " snacks " , the layout and attention given by the hong kong entertainment media are even more exaggerated than some of the mainland entertainment media; prior to the nan ningwanyo city zhang linghe fan incident, hong kong media coverage was equally high。
These three deformities reflect deeply the cruel reality of the extreme scarcity of local entertainment material and the overall contraction of industry in hong kong. There is no doubt that the winter of recreation in hong kong may be longer than we thought when an old hollywood in the east was almost lost to the paparazzi。
