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Who is this mythical people who consume video news? I can't stand the slow pace and lack of details. I very much prefer text, where I can skip boring or redund

Who is this mythical people who consume video news? I can't stand the slow pace and lack of details. I very much prefer text, where I can skip boring or redundant parts, or radio where I can work in something else while I get updated on recent developments.

cuspycode 9y ago
Animals have grunted at each other for hundreds of millions of years, and human speech has slowly evolved from this. Text however was an instant revolution, a complete game changer. I don't think text is going away. The immediate benefits of text are that text allows information to be stored, verified, indexed, and searched (assuming it was indexed correctly). It's only very recently that these same benefits have become available for audio and video. But they are still way behind text. For example, it's a lot easier to quote a snippet of text than to cut and paste a scene from a video sequence.
braindongle 9y ago
Tangential: I follow cnn.com because they matter and I think we need to read widely these days. I just couldn't deal with the aggressive, auto-play video all over the place, so last week I wrote a userscript to monitor all of their pages for video and strip it. My cnn.com experience jut got a lot better. https://openuserjs.org/scripts/braindongle/CNN_remove_video/source https://openuserjs.org/scripts/braindongle/CNN_remove_video/...
- banku_brougham 9y ago
  I don’t know how to break this to you, so here text only cnn from cnn: http://lite.cnn.io/en http://lite.cnn.io/en
  - braindongle 9y ago
    I was aware. Thanks for mentioning that. Personally, I think that the layout of the site, the size of things, the number of clicks it takes to get to particular information are all important when my goal is to understand what messages they are selling, not just to consume their content.
ptr_void 9y ago
I watch the full pbs newshour video on youtube everyday — it’s a good general overview of daily happenings, if I want details for anything I can look up texts

cuspycode 9y ago

Animals have grunted at each other for hundreds of millions of years, and human speech has slowly evolved from this. Text however was an instant revolution, a complete game changer. I don't think text is going away. The immediate benefits of text are that text allows information to be stored, verified, indexed, and searched (assuming it was indexed correctly). It's only very recently that these same benefits have become available for audio and video. But they are still way behind text. For example, it's a lot easier to quote a snippet of text than to cut and paste a scene from a video sequence.

braindongle 9y ago

Tangential: I follow cnn.com because they matter and I think we need to read widely these days. I just couldn't deal with the aggressive, auto-play video all over the place, so last week I wrote a userscript to monitor all of their pages for video and strip it. My cnn.com experience jut got a lot better. https://openuserjs.org/scripts/braindongle/CNN_remove_video/source https://openuserjs.org/scripts/braindongle/CNN_remove_video/...

banku_brougham 9y ago
I don’t know how to break this to you, so here text only cnn from cnn: http://lite.cnn.io/en http://lite.cnn.io/en
- braindongle 9y ago
  I was aware. Thanks for mentioning that. Personally, I think that the layout of the site, the size of things, the number of clicks it takes to get to particular information are all important when my goal is to understand what messages they are selling, not just to consume their content.

ptr_void 9y ago

I watch the full pbs newshour video on youtube everyday — it’s a good general overview of daily happenings, if I want details for anything I can look up texts