The pitfalls of VJ's

Anonymous commenter from the SFPPC blog on my Jeffrey Schaub/Anna Duckworth post and the pitfalls of the VJ format.

"The 'whole reporters being vj's is really going to 'backfire."



1) You don't do either job very well.



2) You stand in front of your own camera and try to get the shot, but it never looks very good.



Note: when a real photog does the shot they frame up that flag behind you just right or catch the background scene of that cliff perfectly. You can't do that when you put the camera on a tripod and try to guess where to stand.



3) Opps, this is a visual medium in High Def these days. Guess whose show is going to kill the competition when only one station still has pros on the other side of the camera?



4) The bosses will remember the phrase "penny wise and pound foolish" when the sales department starts screaming about the crash in the ratings.