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When video makes the news
Posted by Vera Haller on Mar 4, 2008 under: foreign news, online news, television, video
Anyone who has followed the news on television knows that decisions can be influenced by the type and quality of video that reporters bring back to the newsroom. For example, dramatic footage of a car accident or a police chase might make the air even if there is not much of a story to back up the video.The Web is no different. Yesterday, any number of news sites with a national reach had links on their homepages to video that an amateur videographer took of a near plane crash at Germany’s Hamburg airport.
Fox News and The New York Times in its blog, “The Lede,” were among those with stories and links to the video. When I looked on Google News for the story today, I found 247 links.
While the video is dramatic (it shows the plane wobbling and almost crashing right near the runway and then swooping up again), the incident would never have made news if that person with the video camera hadn’t been taping the landing.
The plane ultimately landed safely. No one was injured. So was it news? This story illustrates how – in the digital age — a good video clip can make news, not just on a local TV news station but on news outlets around the world.
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Sometimes great video or pictures can capture someone’s attention and attract them to the site, an they may end up browsing other articles. So although it may not be a “legitimate” news story, it can serve as bait for the viewer. Also, I believe it could have something to do with quotas. Some news mediums have daily or weekly quotas of news stories that they must meet as per contracts. This may be the reason for a lot of the “filler” stories we see.
Adding video can alter the public’s perception of what really happened. Remember that “Don’t Taze Me Bro” fiasco. The most popular clip was around 10-15 seconds and it shows a University of Florida student being thrown to the ground and tazed. It was very disturbing. It gives the impression that the student was a victim. The entire video, however tells the entire story…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVa6jn4rpE
Videos (especially edited or altered ones) has the ability to do what words cannot.
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