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NewsGenrePresentationA Brief Timeline of Broadcast News History 1908 – News reels invented by Pathe Freres 1930 – First TV news broadcast 1940 – First regular TV news broadcast 1963 CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and Huntley-Brinkley Report both expand from 15 minutes to 30 minutes. 1980 – CNN, founded by Ted Turner, becomes the first 24 hour cable news station. Current cable news stations include Headline News, Fox News Channel and MSNBC. 1994 – The News and Observer, a local North Carolina newspaper, becomes one of the first to publish an online version. The New York Times, CNN, and BBC News soon follow. 2005 – Youtube is founded and clips from broadcast news are posted online. Currently all major news shows and most national and local papers and magazines have websites, many of which include video. Many of the websites of the big players have clunky interfaces involving a "player" which opens in a separate window. Many also feature annoying ads that run before the video you've selected. There also seems to be a reluctance to have the video be too prominent on the site. Perhaps this is due to a fear of having people watch the video online instead of on tv? Several sites had videos that were very slow to load. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8004316/ http://video.on.nytimes.com/index.jsp http://abcnews.go.com/nightline http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/video_and_audio/default.stm Foxnews.com's and CBSnews.com's video sections are better organized than most but they still have those annoying ads. http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html http://www.cbsnews.com/?source=homepage_refresh So what about the new more independent news sites? Independent Sites Youtube's news section struck me as more a place to find a video you've already heard about than a place to find breaking news. http://youtube.com/categories_portal?c=25&e=1 http://blip.tv/posts?search=news Rocketboom is an interesting combination of comedy and news. Recent stories about the Rawandan Genocide Tribunal and Sudan were straight news but the stories tend to be pretty goofy. Ads are displayed on Rocketboom on the bottom of the screen at the beginning of the episode. I found this much less obstrusive. http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/archives.html There has been a lot of interest in news satire recently. To give a brief history: In the 19th Century, Mark Twain would publish spoof articles for a Nevada newspaper. In 1934 MGM came out with a series of newsreel parodies called "Goofy Movies". In the 60's Rowan and Martin's Laugh In featured a satire news segment. Starting in the 70's Saturday Night Live has featured the news satire, "Weekend Update". The most prominent contemporary news satires are The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Comedy Central posts clips of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report online with ads at the beginning of each clip. You can also see clips from these shows on the politcal video website crooksandliars.com, which I mention below. http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml One Minute News http://blip.tv/file/13878/ Big News Report http://blip.tv/file/374600 Bikini News http://blip.tv/file/246499/ Hoos News http://blip.tv/file/85556/ GVTV News http://blip.tv/file/247894/ GVTV news was one of the only amateur news shows I saw that was not a satire show despite its odd trappings. I mean, I dont think it's a joke. Certain genres have a tendency to bleed into each other. An example of this, as noted last week, is celebrity gossip and news. The same is true of news and politics. Many consider Fox News to be the propaganda arm of the Republican party. Crooksandliars.com is an openly political site with an emphasis on videos that acts as a news site albeit one with a heavy left-wing slant. |