Kevin Site & New tools in Media
This is my response to the YouTube video Kevin Sites in the hot zone: interview (YouTube video above) & the week six reading New Tools.
Kevin Site is currently a Yahoo! News correspondent who was working as a solo journalist whilst covering about 22 war zones in a year.
Site, whom has said to have pioneered solo journalism, done a lot of war reporting in that year – about two per month!
Whilst he was covering the “hot zones” whilst with the NBC, a video filmed by him shows an US Marine shooting an unarmed Iraqi.
However, due to time limitations he felt that the video and the real side of the story needed to be clarified. This encouraged him to present his side of the story through a blog.
Site suggests that blogs and internet news provide new dimensions to the world of news.
They now offer not just one medium of news, but elements of video, text and still picture.
However, Site suggests there is a possibility for more confusion.
Blogs have been used for astro-turfing where brands are secretly promoting a product in disguise of a happy customer.
But now there are more ways then ever to present a blog.
Moblogs (mobile phones sending a message to their website), podcasting and video blogs (vlogs) are just some of the new tools that people can send their message across.
Websites such as YouTube (www.youtube.com) and podcasting places such as iTunes (www.apple.com/itunes) offer a chance for people to express their thoughts or even watch television episodes.
Personally, one of the most hilarious Vlogs I have seen is also one the most popular on YouTube. Watch it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWSjUe0FyxQ
(It is of course the infamous Chris Crocker!)
