> Ultimately journalism is about informative storytelling. I don’t know that > a wall of jumbled images from around the world will lead to better stories > being told.
Exactly. It looks like they're trying to solve the usual problem of making continuous coverage seem interesting while no new information is being added. A couple of notes from the article: "CBS News has for decades served as the *ne plus ultra* of TV journalism. This is the news unit that has boasted of Cronkite, the unflappable presence who told the nation of the assassination of President Kennedy or of the toll of fighting in Vietnam; the longform newsmagazine '60 Minutes'; and heartwarming 'On The Road' vignettes from Steve Hartman." Nothing against Hartman, but Charles Kuralt's name belongs there. "New augmented-reality graphics the company is rolling out can put a meteorologist in the middle of a mountain pass, in a patch of fog or under replicas of the actual clouds floating by over a particular city. It can also be used to make a news host appear to be standing on an island in San Francisco Bay or alongside a major landmark about to undergo renovation." This is more serious. A good way for a news operation to lose credibility is to act like their reporters are somewhere they're not. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKSNnOE_oMnk%3DVCJ8cJeqV1LEn2giGBbZ7EwdptJ1Y_4aEAnMw%40mail.gmail.com.
