Cameron’s post on the power of radio, and the power of the podcast “Giant Pool of Money” in particular, describes a discovery: radio can cover a topic that might normally put off the average person.
“But these guys presented the story with simple vocabulary, a cohesive them, vivid characters, and a presentation style that made the information digestible to the everyday man.”
He reminds us that we always need to be open for discovery from unexpected places.
It was with great empathy that I read Cameron’s thoughts about how the web may be destroying the originality of writers, given its emphasis on linking and readability by robots. As a print journalist by training and experience, I can understand how appalling it is to consider that much of what determines the audience for an article is not a clever headline but a literal headline that an algorithm can understand. Metaphors don’t work on the web.
I see the same things, but come to a different conclusion. The linking and collaborative aspect of online journalism has the potential to enrich a writer’s work and to bring it to a new, wider audience.
