Top 10 Reasons Not to Learn Multimedia Skills
After reading a post from fave blog The Editorialiste commenting on the troubles of budding multimedia journalists, I understand. Multimedia is hard. It's different. That's why I've written a list of reasons why you shouldn't bother with multimedia.
1. The extra hours spent on multimedia will preempt any pressing games of Solitaire.
2. Backpack journalism requires backpacks...which are heavy.
3. Asking a journalist to multitask is like asking Bo Jackson to play more than one sport, I mean come on.
4. The hundreds of voices on a website can't compare to the two quality experts in a print or broadcast story.
5. Who needs to learn how to record audio when you can write?
6. Interactivity is just a fancy word for communism.
7. There will always be an intern that will do it for cheap.
8. The Pulitzer committee won't see your story if it's on the net.
9. Computers cause cancer.
10. Journalism is dead anyway.
1. The extra hours spent on multimedia will preempt any pressing games of Solitaire.
2. Backpack journalism requires backpacks...which are heavy.
3. Asking a journalist to multitask is like asking Bo Jackson to play more than one sport, I mean come on.
4. The hundreds of voices on a website can't compare to the two quality experts in a print or broadcast story.
5. Who needs to learn how to record audio when you can write?
6. Interactivity is just a fancy word for communism.
7. There will always be an intern that will do it for cheap.
8. The Pulitzer committee won't see your story if it's on the net.
9. Computers cause cancer.
10. Journalism is dead anyway.
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2 Comments:
I seem to have missed the 30-second video clip that is supposed to accompany this post. I also seemed to have missed the interactive graphic...? I guess some of the cheap intern labor wrote this post.
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Anonymous, 5:32 PM
Anonymous, 5:32 PM
Re: the last comment --
The very act of leaving a comment on a blog - your interaction - adds your voice to the multimedia platform that is the Web. No one is arguing for video or Flash all the time, just when appropriate.
Thanks for helping to make the point.
The very act of leaving a comment on a blog - your interaction - adds your voice to the multimedia platform that is the Web. No one is arguing for video or Flash all the time, just when appropriate.
Thanks for helping to make the point.
