ex-CNN tokyo chief rebecca mackinnon on bypassing anchors with your newsreader:

I got even more excited just now when my Sharpreader notified me of the Reuters TV headline: “Congolese Soldiers, Hutus Clash”. Clicking on the link, I got to watch a raw Reuters feed of video and sound bites from the aftermath of the latest violent mess in Congo without some reporter’s narration, accompanied by a text story that explains what I am seeing. Somehow I doubt this story is going to be on the network or cable TV news shows this evening, or if it is, it will be a brief 30-second anchor-read.

tv might just have become a viable information medium again.

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