Don’t Look At The Camera: Who came up with that stupid idea?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfPwR00HXM0[/youtube] Robert McNamara tells all… The clip above is from The Fog of War, a documentary film by Errol Morris. We talked a bit about Morris yesterday, and we’ll talk about him more later, but one of Morris’ great...
Read more60 Minutes Fails to Deliver
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jibdeQbh6Rw&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Hello? Hello? Anyone home over there? Last week, 60 Minutes, the CBS News program initiated an interesting idea. Shoot a video, tell us what you think or what questions you have and we’ll air and answer them. Fair...
Read moreWhy 60 Minutes is Great Television & Terrible Journalism
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jibdeQbh6Rw[/youtube] Chris Kohatsu tweeted me the other day. 60 Minutes was posting an invitation to people to question or respond to Lara Logan’s story on US forces in Afghanistan. As I had previously tweeted that Logan’s story was terrible,...
Read more60 Minutes is a Pile of Crap
CBS News ‘correspondent’ Lara Logan posing as a reporter… A few days ago we ran a clip from Newswipe, a BBC parody of ‘news programs’. It was funny. But last night 60 Minutes ran a segment on the war...
Read moreJournalists….. arise! You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Chains
I’m currently working on a piece about homeless people in San Francisco Why are we such wimps? Journalism is in utter collapse and we wander around asking whether perhaps the answer is not to turn the New York Times...
Read moreVideo Literacy – Part 2
tell me a story… In response to my last posting on Video Literacy (March 25, 2009), valid points were raised by both Marc Kusnetz and Martin Fletcher on what is meant by video literacy, exactly. Fletcher relates a story...
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