Video

I found a video on CNN about a man who went on a gun rampage through southern Alabama, killing 10 people in small towns including his mother and other relatives. This video would not compare the text version because in this one, it has interviews from sheriff’s deputy Josh Myers who lost his daughter and wife in the rampage. His quotes simply would not have the same emotional effect on the reader if they were in a print story rather than a video story. In this video, he is holding pictures of his wife and daughter mourning the loss. The video story also allows the viewer to see exactly where the shooting happened and how it happened. Myers had another daughter who was saved by a neighbor, and the video shows her interview where she shows exactly where she picked up his daughter and where she went to hide from the gunman. These elements would not be accessible in a text version of this story, and that is part of why video journalism is essential in addition to print.