Poor Sad Pathetic Little Fox News


laughable and lamentable.

Poor, pathetic, sad little Fox News.

They clearly don’t get it at all.

Fox recently annouced a new category of reporters:

Junior Reporters

Says Fox: “The idea behind the program is to give the reporter enough cutting-edge gear that is portable enough and easy enough for them to be a one-person band,” says Sharri Berg, senior vice president of news operations and services at Fox.

Yes – Junior Reporters

These reporters will carry their own cameras, shoot their own stories, edit them and produce them.

You know… JUNIOR REPORTERS.

Real reporters, as we all know, have make up people, hair people, people who shoot their stories for them, who write their copy for them and an assignment desk that finds their stories for them.

We call these people – at least around here – actors.

In the meantime, we like a few JUNIOR REPORTERS.

Junior reporters like Michelle Michael who just won the NPPA VJ or the Year Award.

We also like JUNIOR REPORTERS like Raul Gallego Abellan who stopped by here to pick up his Royal Television Society Award.

He stopped off between reporting from Cairo. He was on his way to Tripoli.

Oh yeah….

JUNIOR REPORTERS.

Says Fox of the JUNIOR REPORTERS:

All five of the reporters were put through an extensive training program in New York to learn everything from camera operation to editing. They not only come up with the stories but will produce, write, film and edit each report.

WOW!

Mayby, just maybe, FOX NEWS should put some of their SENIOR REPOTERS through such training so they have some basic working knowledge of the medium in which they are supposed to be working.

Of course, if Fox New doesn’t have that kind of training, I know where they can get it.

Michael Rosenblum

For more than 30 years, Michael Rosenblum has been on the cutting edge of the digital video journalism revolution. During this time, he has lead a drive for video literacy, and the complete rethinking of how television is made and controlled. His work has included: The complete transitioning of The BBC's national network (UK) to a VJ-driven model, starting in 2002. The complete conversion of The Voice of America, the United State's Government's broadcasting agency, (and the largest broadcaster in the world), from short wave radio to television broadcasting and webcasting using the VJ paradigm (1998-present). The construction of NYT Television, a New York Times Company, and the largest producer of non-fiction television in the US. Rosenblum was both the founder and President of NYT TV, (all based on this paradigm (1996-1998). The President and Founder of Video News International, a global VJ-driven newsgathering company, with more than 100 journalists around the world. (1993-1996). Other clients include Spectrum News, Verizon and CBS News.

1 Comment
  • invitedmedia February 25, 2011

    i realize their $ is as green as anyone’s, but you’d probably get better results teaching the “stars” of the soon-to-be-hit new canadian cable launch “the rotisserie channel” than you would most of fox’s SENIOR REPORTERS.

    (you simply gotta google ‘the rotisserie channel’)

    fox vs poultry.