Common Sense Journalism

An extension of the Common Sense Journalism monthly column by Doug Fisher, former broadcaster, newspaper reporter and wire service editor. From new media to old, much of journalism is just plain common sense.

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Unknown (often improperly attributed to Thomas Jefferson)

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

"Common sense is not so common" - Voltaire "Common sense is instinct; enough of it is genius" - George Bernard Shaw

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Online video vs. TV video

Following up on the discussion here and elsewhere about how to judge online video ...

Before we got into it here, Mark Cuban had an interesting analogy: online=snacks vs. TV=a meal.

Meanwhile, Mark Hamilton may have hit on a good distinction: story-showing vs. storytelling. The "showing" is the 10- or 20-second video clip that augments the rest of the online story. The "telling" is the fullly produced package. I like that terminology.

Labels: newspapers, TV, video

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Saturday, March 10, 2007

Online video vs. TV video

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