Comments on: Radio with Pictures http://www.newradiostrategies.com/2008/11/06/radio-with-pictures/ A Think Tank for Radio in the Digital Age Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:11:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: benjamin http://www.newradiostrategies.com/2008/11/06/radio-with-pictures/comment-page-1/#comment-29 benjamin Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:55:53 +0000 http://newradiostrategies.com/?p=178#comment-29 I'm just picking myself off the floor with laughter. CT I know Sam to be a very nice man, this is most out of character. As for being a wimp? Fair comment but if Sam really wanted to draw the readers in he could have featured one of those shots with him and all his lovely dancing girl friends from Memos in Addis Adaba. I’m just picking myself off the floor with laughter.

CT I know Sam to be a very nice man, this is most out of character.

As for being a wimp? Fair comment but if Sam really wanted to draw the readers in he could have featured one of those shots with him and all his lovely dancing girl friends from Memos in Addis Adaba.

]]> By: sam http://www.newradiostrategies.com/2008/11/06/radio-with-pictures/comment-page-1/#comment-28 sam Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:52:54 +0000 http://newradiostrategies.com/?p=178#comment-28 Boo hoo.. A dramatic picture featuring the posts main subject while working for the BBC WST is used and you get all precious. What do you expect - a photo essay? Actually the writer did have other pictures at hand, but they were all rather boring. I'd rather use a provocative image to stimulate interest instead of following CT's (yawn) predictable path. The fact that the picture made you want to find out more is exactly its strength. Job done. As for you Chesterton - you wimp - your comments simply illustrate the importance of editorial freedom. PS. I'm not changing it either - so actually, I did get away with it. Ha! Boo hoo.. A dramatic picture featuring the posts main subject while working for the BBC WST is used and you get all precious. What do you expect – a photo essay? Actually the writer did have other pictures at hand, but they were all rather boring. I’d rather use a provocative image to stimulate interest instead of following CT’s (yawn) predictable path. The fact that the picture made you want to find out more is exactly its strength. Job done.

As for you Chesterton – you wimp – your comments simply illustrate the importance of editorial freedom. PS. I’m not changing it either – so actually, I did get away with it. Ha!

]]> By: bejamin http://www.newradiostrategies.com/2008/11/06/radio-with-pictures/comment-page-1/#comment-27 bejamin Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:18:33 +0000 http://newradiostrategies.com/?p=178#comment-27 Hello CT, good comments. I didn't actually know that photo was going to be used and could have provided one from our training in Ethiopia or Kenya as that photo makes me cringe a little, but I think it was the only one the writer had to hand when he was doing the post. The photo was taken in Ethiopia at the Awash National Park. The man with the gun was our guide. The weapon is for security purposes, although personally I would have felt more secure without it in the back of the car whilst we were bouncing around! Your comments illustrate the importance of photographs, that you can't just place anything anywhere and expect to get away with it. Benjamin www.duckrabbit.info/blog Hello CT,

good comments. I didn’t actually know that photo was going to be used and could have provided one from our training in Ethiopia or Kenya as that photo makes me cringe a little, but I think it was the only one the writer had to hand when he was doing the post.

The photo was taken in Ethiopia at the Awash National Park. The man with the gun was our guide. The weapon is for security purposes, although personally I would have felt more secure without it in the back of the car whilst we were bouncing around!

Your comments illustrate the importance of photographs, that you can’t just place anything anywhere and expect to get away with it.

Benjamin http://www.duckrabbit.info/blog

]]> By: ct http://www.newradiostrategies.com/2008/11/06/radio-with-pictures/comment-page-1/#comment-24 ct Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:35:41 +0000 http://newradiostrategies.com/?p=178#comment-24 I greatly appreciate the information on the slideshow technique. As a listener of WBEZ in Chicago, I greatly enjoy finding such content accompanying a story. I've found some newspapers using this technique as well to great effect. However, I must add that I find it unfortunate that the sole explanation of the image at the top of the page is "so and so in Africa..." Where are we in Africa? Who is our producer posing with? Is there some reason for the weapon in this African fellow's hand? Why can't we have a photo with our producer training Kenyan journalists in the audio slideshows, which would be both more self-explanatory and much more appropriate to the actual content of the post? If we're learning here about using images to further enhance listeners' understanding of a story, why does this image do so little to enhance the reader's understanding here? I greatly appreciate the information on the slideshow technique. As a listener of WBEZ in Chicago, I greatly enjoy finding such content accompanying a story. I’ve found some newspapers using this technique as well to great effect.

However, I must add that I find it unfortunate that the sole explanation of the image at the top of the page is “so and so in Africa…”

Where are we in Africa? Who is our producer posing with? Is there some reason for the weapon in this African fellow’s hand? Why can’t we have a photo with our producer training Kenyan journalists in the audio slideshows, which would be both more self-explanatory and much more appropriate to the actual content of the post? If we’re learning here about using images to further enhance listeners’ understanding of a story, why does this image do so little to enhance the reader’s understanding here?

]]> By: Dubber http://www.newradiostrategies.com/2008/11/06/radio-with-pictures/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Dubber Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:10:40 +0000 http://newradiostrategies.com/?p=178#comment-25 This is a really great way of supporting (rather than trying to overshadow) the audio with images. I'm curious as to how something like this might be applied to music radio. Any ideas anyone? This is a really great way of supporting (rather than trying to overshadow) the audio with images. I’m curious as to how something like this might be applied to music radio.

Any ideas anyone?

]]> By: bejamin http://www.newradiostrategies.com/2008/11/06/radio-with-pictures/comment-page-1/#comment-26 bejamin Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:47:00 +0000 http://newradiostrategies.com/?p=178#comment-26 Who's that idiot posing with the guy with the gun? Who’s that idiot posing with the guy with the gun?

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