Re:News Corp's iPad newspaper 'The Daily' shutting down Dec. 15
by ZeroGravitas on Monday December 03, 2012 @02:55PM
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If recording what happens matters then cheap recording devices in the hands of locals or volunteers should suffice. I'm not seeing how live satellite broadcasts of a talking head from the roof of a 5 star hotel in a warzone or a suburban street as bodies are dug up adds anything but verisimilitude to whatever soundbites theyre spouting.
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Re:News Corp's iPad newspaper 'The Daily' shutting down Dec. 15
by untog on Monday December 03, 2012 @03:30PM
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You're talking about very different things, though. Not every journalist is a TV, camera-facing talking head. Are you really suggesting that the most journalists ever contribute is the 45 second segments on the evening news?
What about the written reports? The field journalists in Gaza, talking to the groups on the ground and giving first-hand accounts of the violence? That's important. Relying on cheap recording devices in the hands of locals is a terrible idea- they are the very people least likely to be impartial. To use the Gaza example, there would be thousands of recordings of Israeli strikes, but very few of missiles being launched the other way because no-one would want to record it. We'd end up with entirely biased coverage.
Who would be writing something like this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/world/middleeast/israel-ga...
?