Text

I digress.
A couple of weeks ago, guest lecturer Skye Doherty explained the value of text in today's media.
Apprehensive at first, I began to understand that although we tend to associate online and TV Journalism with images, text really is the corner stone of any story, and will continue to be.

Doherty's explanation of this concept did not only provide incite to, lets be honest, a room of predominately internet focused students, but also provided detail into the set up of online articles. Fantastic.

In the future I maintain that the visual aspects of Journalism (i.e. pictures and video) will flourish in a  rich multimedia environment. There are many article written about the subject. I found one (despite being written in 2009) that suggests that rich media should be embedded in press releases sent to journalists. http://mumbrella.com.au/prs-urged-send-us-your-giant-emails-plain-text-journalism-is-dead-9430

However, after this lecture that image of mine seems a little hazy. Sure, vivid imagery can often provoke a far more intensive emotional response from an audience, yet when included with text can only enhance the experience.

I know this means physically reading it (pfft, reading. Who does that now days...?.) but to be honest, text can still rival images and is still most certainly needed in modern day media.