nytimes.com
In his New York column, Kurt Andersen takes a look at newspaper web video features, taking a particular interest in the NYT's raspy Oscar flaneur David Carr. He likes what he sees and pronounces thusly: "I can easily imagine newspapers' Web-video portals becoming the TV-journalism destinations of choice for smart people—that is, in the 21st century, the dominant nineteenth-century journalistic institution, newspapers, might beat the dominant twentieth-century institution, TV, at the premium part of its own game."
Of course, that's assuming that newspapers resist subjecting their web video experiments to the same kind of traffic sensitivity that some argue is impacting the rest of the online newspaper world (c.f. the recent death of you-know-who vaulting onto front pages everywhere). And if we felt like being jerky, we could come up with a couple examples of truly awful newspaper web video features. But how can we snark on Presidents' Day?
