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Re:My Web is Text Based by mixmax on Thursday February 19, 2009 @09:22PM (#488187)
Video is primarily for entertainment, text is for conveying information. At least on the net.

Newspapers don't seem to understand this - a lot of them are starting to have videoclips on their sites, apparently to grab marketshare from TV. It's much more expensive than writing an article, and it doesn't work. There are, of course exceptions: "nipslips", catastrophes and such call for video, but most news don't.

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Re:My Web is Text Based by brandnewlow on Thursday February 19, 2009 @11:09PM (#488278)
A-men! U.S. j-schools are obsessed with turning everyone into multimedia reporters...when people still just want great text stories.

The original post is great. I'm sending it to all my journalism buddies.

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Re:My Web is Text Based by KWD on Friday February 20, 2009 @07:19AM (#488603)
Agree. It's especially annoying when the video link is not marked as such on the newspaper site. I immediately bounce back. If I wanted video I'd be elshewhere.
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