For anyone wanting a career in journalism, Charlie Booker gives a few valuable tips such as:
Show a familiar location, then have the presenter walk towards the camera ignoring all the pricks milling around him, like he’s glidingthrough the fuckng matrix.
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Having worked as a TV news reporter I found Charlie's piece very amusing – some of us have long believed reporting like this is a rubbish way to do things!
But even if a journalist wants to tell stories in a more authentic and engaging way, the constraints of the so-called “house style” in many news organisations make it difficult to achieve.
What's needed is a massive culture shift and a complete re-think of what we understand quality broadcast news reporting is.
And guess what? That's exactly what's happening, though you'd never believe it from what we're still mostly seeing on TV.
Anyway, the new digital technologies, and shake up of “old school/old mainstream” journalism means new platforms and styles of “news” storytelling can now emerge.
Let's hope fresh and appropriate ways of funding appear too, so we can kill off this dreadful formulaic reporting and delivery, and clear the way for more natural and interesting ways to treat stories and content.
Much love,
Ian Aspin. http://www.twitter.com/ianaspin
Hey Ian, really insightfull comment. But I've seen you left this comment on every other blog post on the net that supports Disqus commenting, an easy Google Search helped you out no? “How To Report The News” Disqus–. Nice spamming, and you almost got away with it here.
Hi Wes,
Thanks for your comment.
I love your humour/humor! Oh how you make me laugh! Thank you!
If a person is passionate about a particular idea, then that person may want to share comment on a particular video, even when that same video appears in multiple locations. Same video, same comment, for the benefit of different readers reading different blogs.
All the best and much love,
Ian.
Ah OK I see where you're coming from, and you have nothing to really spam about. Anyways thanks for the comments.
Wes