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.
Yeah, even this statement is starting to sound cliche, but the only TV “news” I really watch is The Daily Show. Besides that I rely on other individuals to collect information for me when it comes to television, then I catch the hightlights (or lowlights) on youtube or vimeo or some such thing. I don’t have the time to watch a half hour of crap to get one relevant report.
I saw this on reddit earlier, so fucking hilarious.
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Comment by zach — January 28, 2010 @ 8:44 pm
haha – that’s great
and so true.
It’s like a template.
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Ian Aleksander Adams Reply:
January 30th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
yeah – a lot of stuff on mainstream news is really predictable. sort of sad.
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Comment by Mari — January 28, 2010 @ 11:00 pm
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
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Ian Aleksander Adams Reply:
February 18th, 2010 at 5:46 am
Yeah, even this statement is starting to sound cliche, but the only TV “news” I really watch is The Daily Show. Besides that I rely on other individuals to collect information for me when it comes to television, then I catch the hightlights (or lowlights) on youtube or vimeo or some such thing. I don’t have the time to watch a half hour of crap to get one relevant report.
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Comment by Ian Aspin — February 4, 2010 @ 7:47 am