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I wanted to focus on the following video:

It is close to 6 minutes long and for me underlines how the internet will change news reporting.
This is a piece about fast food workers, but all it is is the reporter talking to a woman at the drive-in window of Burger King in Dallas late one night. It is a spare but extremely powerful piece. It reminds me of the pieces city columnists used to do in newspapers, describing the life of an ordinary individual, painting the scene in which they lived and worked.
But what is so much more powerful here is that we see the woman's face and hear the emotion in her voice. We see the lone Burger King floating in a haze of lights by the side of the highway, isolated from everything else.

This kind of journalism couldn't exist on normal television, because normal television simply has no time for it. And it is too small of a story even for a show like Frontline to take on. It is at a small human scale. And I think that it is the kind of journalism we will see more and more of.

It is also fascinating to me because it shows how organizations like newspapers are increasingly becoming media providers as well. Perhaps they can create a new kind of television journalism on the web that their traditional counterparts in actual television simply cannot.