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Undertoad · 05-01-2004, 03:04 PM

Offhand: looking at these thngs for so long for IotD

Most people still face a certain amount of bandwidth woe (60% still using modems in the US?) and won't care to go through to many large, detailed images unless there's something really compelling behind them.

What's supposed to be compelling, in journalism, is the big picture story, the insightful narrative, told in an interesting way or at least as well as possible. (What we get instead is a few lines of facts churned out of whatever rumor's going around, framed by a few lines of total conjecture about what it all means. With a stand-up done near where the actual event occurred, to suggest that maybe some actual reporting and discovery of fact was actually done, and the words weren't simply fed back to the on-site reporter from the central office.)

Can there be that many truly compelling images shot in a week? That tell us something fresh that we didn't know before? That tell a better or different story than the AP/AFP/Reuters photographers are shooting?

05-01-2004, 03:04 PM	#8
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Offhand: looking at these thngs for so long for IotD Most people still face a certain amount of bandwidth woe (60% still using modems in the US?) and won't care to go through to many large, detailed images unless there's something really compelling behind them. What's supposed to be compelling, in journalism, is the big picture story, the insightful narrative, told in an interesting way or at least as well as possible. (What we get instead is a few lines of facts churned out of whatever rumor's going around, framed by a few lines of total conjecture about what it all means. With a stand-up done near where the actual event occurred, to suggest that maybe some actual reporting and discovery of fact was actually done, and the words weren't simply fed back to the on-site reporter from the central office.) Can there be that many truly compelling images shot in a week? That tell us something fresh that we didn't know before? That tell a better or different story than the AP/AFP/Reuters photographers are shooting?