FRIDAY’S LOST POST
by A.man.I (This is a repost from Friday titled “What Were They Thinking”?)
JESSE JACKSON
Come on brotha! You’ve been dealing with the media for years. Do you think that a whisper won’t be heard when you’re mic’d up?
Your comments showed a lack of respect for Sen. Obama. It sounds like you’ve got some Willie Lynch in your blood, or maybe you just had a big glass of Haterade.
The crazy thing is, an employee who was training at Fox is the one who noticed the comments, and it took several days for Fox to air the clip.
Check out Journal-isms for the story behind the story.
WTSP TAMPA BAYS 10 NEWS
This Tampa CBS affiliate just started a citizen journalism program. Though citizen journalism gives the public a great opportunity to participate in news, it seems that some outlets are using it as a low cost way to gather content.
Channel 10 plans to supply people in the community with the equipment, and every three months the citizen producers will be “required” to submit content.
Each time you send me a video story that either makes it on the news or on our web site, Tampa Bay’s 10 will pay you TWENTY DOLLARS!
A whopping $20 bucks. With the price of gas! When I was developing a citizen journalism show for Black Family Channel, we were going to pay $250.00 per segment. $20 bucks is more than people get when they submit to CNN’s iReport, but then again most people are shooting on their personal cell phones and still cameras, and not getting station issued equipment.
I don’t think tampabay10’s “citizen journalism team” has taken the right approach. It’s great to encourage public participation, but this initiative sounds like a low paying job. Stringers can make up to $500.00 bucks for each piece of newsworthy content they capture, and sell.
I wonder what Eamon is thinking? Hernando Bob (RIP) is probably rolling in his grave (Thanks for the link L.T.)
Media 1938
Michael Richards, Don Imus, now there’s a social media player to add to the “racist jokes aren’t all that funny when some people say them” list. Loren Feldman, the owner of Media 1938 just lost a deal with Verizon over a video he produced called “TechNi@@a.”
Feldman calls himself a professional comedian, but I’m not so sure of that. While it certainly may seem fun to portray black men as womanizing, weed smoking, hoe slapping, techno-thugs, some folks have been offended by it.
Here’s a portion of Feldman’s explanation:
TechNigga was part of a weeklong project that reflected on numerous issues in our culture. Across the series I make fun of jews, psychologists, scientologists, celebrity rehab, nerds, nazis, tech culture, 70s movies and, yes, black people.
I personally didn’t get the “joke,” and can understand why people would call him a racist. Dave Chappelle could get away with it, but you’re no Dave Chappelle, buddy. It looks like some jokes are bad for business.
I have a question Mr. Feldman, have you looked for any urban tech bloggers? Here’s a start BlackWeb2.0.
PEACE!!
[...] Tampa Bay reporter Amani Channel doesn’t think that’s [...]
Re the Ch10 lame citjourn initiative: I offered to send clips — not fully-produced segments, just clips — for $50 each, using my own high-end professional video cameras and other equipment.
I also proposed a specific story, about a black church pastor in Palmetto (Manatee County) who is doing after-school and summer tutoring programs in an attempt to cut ignorance and therefore violence.
The phone message I got back from Ch10’s Wallace said he’d gotten over 500 responses to his citjourn pitch so far, but please email him with a coded subject line so he could get back to me.
Now, you’re right about skilled video stringers getting more like $250 per story than $20. Indeed, my typical shoot, including editing, actually runs closer to $600, but that’s typically for a 3 – 5 minute “mini-infomercial” or training video that runs on the client’s Web site.
But that’s all okay. A clip is just a clip, and I figure all I’d give Ch10 for $20 — or even $50 — is just that: a raw clip. And the real, complete story would then go on my personal site, which is currently ad-free but has enough traffic that I could make $500+ per month by adding Google or equivalent ads.
It’s all fun.