Thursday, October 2, 2008

Michael J. Fox feature

As mentioned previously, USAToday.com has a featured video section on its website. One that stuck out to me today was one on Michael J. Fox speaking about Parkinson's research.

I only clicked on the story to see his speech since I figured it'd be powerful. It certainly was, whether you agree with his message or not. In this case, the video was really the only way to convey the emotion of the event.

I think the editors made the right call going with a video feature rather than a more text-based story since it only required a short piece and text would lose the gravity of his speech.

One downside is you have to scan through a bunch of videos on the election that are of dubious necessity to even notice the powerful video, so maybe this is a case where less would be more?

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