Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

Publication Title

Bass World

Volume

35

Issue

1

First Page

4

Last Page

5

Abstract

With recent high-profile cutbacks in the arts making the news, I feel compelled to make some comments before I go on with my usual business as Editor of Bass World and OJBR. The recession has negatively impacted the professions where bassists exercise their art and make their Jiving. The arts have been through this before, and most artists always seem to come out of it OK. One thing we need to remember is that most media outlets are commercially driven, and as a result, they tend to focus their reports on gloom and doom in order to capture and hold readers' and viewers' interests. Conventional media outlets tend not to focus on the good news because good news does not grab the public's attention and is not as good for the web analysts' sales and marketing statistics for advertisers. Holly Mulcahy, Concertmaster of Orchestra Iowa and blogger, sums it up best, in her reaction to a New York Times article bemoaning the downfall of orchestras when she states "bad news travels faster and more passionately than good . .. there are some very good things going on in the orchestra world that never see the light of day." The Jeremy Baguyos in the Recital Hall of the Strauss Performing Arts Cente,; University of Nebraska at Omaha bias towards bad news, crisis, and By Jeremy C. Baguyos With recent high-profile cutbacks in the arts making the news, I feel compelled to make some comments before I go on with my usual business as Editor of Bass World and OJBR. The recession has negatively impacted the professions where bassists exercise their art and make their Jiving. The arts have been through this before, and most artists always seem to come out of it OK. One thing we need to remember is that most media outlets are commercially driven, and as a result, they tend to focus their reports on gloom and doom in order to capture and hold readers' and viewers' interests. Conventional media controversy, however, creates the impression that all is lost and sometimes exacerbates the problem. Fortunately, Bass World is part of a non-profit organization, the ISB , so we don 't have to resort to the same methods as our forprofit counterparts. And as a side-note, thank you for renewing your membership, since it is your membership that helps make Bass World and its optimistic voice possible.

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© 2011 Jeremy C. Baguyos

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