When it rains, it pours.
Right right, this is the 18th post tonight, but like the post title, when it rains it pours. I’m just chockful of blogging material tonight.
When it comes to multimedia, HOLY hell am I a slow learner. But I’m loving it. I love writing for the Web and some broadcast and print and podcasts and trying to converge all my different classes together for one report.
And really love my radio class. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but radio is a much more effective media than I ever gave it credit for. And it’s so intimate and to the point, I’ve just taken to it. It’s making me want to do voiceovers for all of my reports, so now it’s about getting quality footage to go with it. Ack, I hate shooting video. My hand is unsteady and so it’s like “oh….grandma got the camera during the family trip and now we have a lot of shaky video, like Niagra Falls had an earthquake or something.”
However, I wish Columbia’s multimedia influence was stronger, and more organized. I know the program is just getting it’s sea legs in the multimedia ship, but it doesn’t help those students graduating soon and won’t be around for another two or three semesters to fully benefit from real multimedia education and experience.
As for the journalism world outside of Columbia, I think the journalism world needs to adapt to the “technology age” and the changes it’s brought (like blogging and citizen journalism). And it’s not like we haven’t seen these changes before. After newspapers, there was radio. So journalism adapted to include radio broadcasts as another, even more immediate, form of getting the news to the masses. Then TV—journalism adapted again. Now with internet and blogging, it’s just a matter of finding the right way to adapt. Journalists need to stop panicking and assuming “newspapers are dead.” Because if they didn’t go extinct after the inventions of the radio and the television, I can’t imagine that newspapers will die off now.
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