I watched a video link on The New York Times online edition on the issues surrounding Mukasey's confirmation as Attorney General. Although the piece worked well as a supplement to the written article, I had a few problems with it as a stand alone piece.
For one, there was no video except for an interview with a political journalist. All images of Mukasey were pictures that had already been shot by several publications and wire services and pieced together to go along with what the journalist was saying. Another problem I had was it was the bias shown by having one source whose only qualification was that he reported in Washington.
Frankly, I think it is a waste of the Times' online resources to upload video features that do not include video or interviews with sources close to the story. We have discussed in class that most online publications have not successfully converged online, video, and print and I think this is a prime example of this. There was no reason why this piece couldn't have just run as a slideshow with the audio of the journalist playing. Why did we need to see the video of him talking and no video of anything else?
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