5Takes Rio
Here’s a promo (VJ – Fleur Amesz), for this show this week. Tune in. Saturday 10pm. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUKkvOhE5ZA]
Read moreWho Lost Afghanistan?
….jeez… it was here a minute ago….. There are several great advantages to living a trans-Atlantic life: You get to rack up endless frequent flier miles. You get to really understand your body clock. You get to see the...
Read moreYou Won’t See This on Local News….*
Just in from 5Takes Latin America….. Here is the most recent vlog from ‘tj’ Erika as she and 4 others make their way across Latin America. (Glad to see you found it) We supplied them with video cameras, laptops...
Read moreHillary, your web videos suck!
…anacin…anacin….anacin…… His name was Rosser Reeves and he changed the world. You may never have heard of him, but you should have. He created, to a large, extent, the world we live in today.
Read moreThis Is What Journalism Has Become….
June 8, 1972. Nick Ut, (Huynh Cong Ut), captures this Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Phan Thị Kim Phúc. The 9 year old girl running toward the camera to flee a South Vietnamese napalm attack on the Trang Bang village...
Read moreDetroit on the Hudson
What happened? Detroit once made the most amazing cars in the world. Truly works of art, as well as powerhouse machines. As a kid I can remember waiting for the new models to come out each year. Then, something...
Read moreAnd now… the ‘news’….
News you can use…… We have lived in the Soviet Union of television journalism for so long that we have actually come to believe that the ‘controlled’ system is ‘better’ than a messy system where anyone can produce anything...
Read moreThe Empire Strikes Back
“….gimme a sec Vader, and I’ll be right with you…..” A few days ago we wrote about the rise of the ‘peasants’ as they took control of the media. As in the 15th Century, the nobility is pissed off....
Read moreThe Case for Video Literacy
…..psst… on final cut pro how do you set the dissolve times again?…. The average American now watches more than 4.2 hours of television a day.
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