Walking in the crowd we know

June 30, 2009 at 6:58 am · Filed under our neighborhoods, our stories - story telling we need to do, our streets, videos as salvation

http://scher.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/the-parade/?th&emc=th

You are walking on a street. You know the man in the car repair store, and the two women in the bakery, and the old man in the grocery who smiles everyday to you, and who has been there for ever, and the shoe repair man who never has business but who is always happy, and you see one, no, two, no 10 people you know well from the neighborhood, and you see another 20 who you think you know and then you notice a few who must be new to the neighborhood and you study their faces and you wonder who they are and you keep staring and wondering as you walk on the street in your neighborhood that you know and that defines you and this is what a local newspaper, a radio station, a media connection does and can do when it talks to us in the places where we live – we look around us, as we walk in the crowd we know.

Read this small article in the New York Times and follow the video and I think you’ll get the message.

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Testimonial 1001 why local papers will survive

June 29, 2009 at 5:24 pm · Filed under Latino newspapers, videos as salvation

You want a picture of a parade in your neighborhood? You read your local paper. You want to know what’s doing at the new restaurant? And how about at the high school? You read your local newspaper.

It makes sense and that’s what this report says. While national papers are looking at the edge of the cliff and wondering how much time they have, local newspapers are hanging on in places long forgotten by the large newspapers.

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/emilyhenry/200906/1754/

And that’s why I put the picture of La Prensa here. There are a lot reasons why I like this paper. But one is that they have their own videos and a neat use of updated photos. Brilliante!

We have to talk more about videos as salvation.

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