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Playing the devil's advocate here. What is wrong with the Sun-Times making this decision if it is shown that having a staff trained in 'iPhone photography basi
by mcphilip 13y ago
Playing the devil's advocate here.
What is wrong with the Sun-Times making this decision if it is shown that having a staff trained in 'iPhone photography basics' allows the ST to cut costs without hurting revenue? An iconic photo (e.g. Tank Man photo [1]) opportunity is a black swan event, after all.
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
- astrodust 13y agoWhy not go one further and train their staff to search Flickr and Twitter for images instead? What about firing all the editors and teaching the writers to do that themselves? Get rid of all the janitorial staff and mandate everyone spend more time cleaning up.
- parsnips 13y agoWell...
- kfury 13y agoYou think you're using hyperbole but many articles going out nowadays never get read by an editor who actually edits for tone, readability, spelling, or even accuracy. And the janitorial staff? You might be surprised to know how many of the actual journalistic sites you read don't even have offices, or at least not ones with desks for writers. Most of these people work at home.
- anigbrowl 13y agoAn iconic photo (e.g. Tank Man photo [1]) opportunity is a black swan event, after all. The photo opportunity is, but the ability to exploit the opportunity and get a good photo is not.
- tptacek 13y agoWhoah, you're back. Come down to MTV this week to see me and Patrick (and whoever else shows up). Good to see you here again. (Apologies for off-topic comment).