I guess the good news for WCRS is that there really are a lot of things that other outlets are not reporting on and a lot of people out there care about those things.
Yesterday, a coworker said she liked one of my videos on my blog. It reminded me that maybe we should do a multi-media approach of (1) shooting video, (2) posting the videos to WCRS site and my blog, and (3) pulling audio from them for WCRS Conscious Voices content, and (4) generating print materials from this process.
What’s holding me up from doing that right now is the malfunctioning of my laptop. I expect to have a laptop I am buying from my nephew in a couple of weeks. It’s low-powered like my current laptop, but it might work for the time being. Also, I may be able to use my warranty for my current laptop to either get this one fixed or get a new one.
So, all of this shouldn’t really be that difficult. I think a multi-media approach is good in the sense of using whatever medium we have available to create communication between two or more people who would likely not communicate with each other on a particular issue had it not been for our reporting.
But regarding my own personal experience, I need to involve more actual writing so as to think more sharply as I go about reporting. Speaking for myself, there can be a sort of intellectual passivity and lack of intellectual vigor if all I do is hold a camera or hold an audio recorder and listen and talk. Reporting has to involve synthesis, and that requires writing, as far as I am concerned.
Thanks ,
Tom
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