Being able to see facial expressions and hear inflection allows for a deeper experience. I tend to read transcripts most of the time because it’s just faster. But for understanding who Mamdani is as a full introduction, text alone won’t get you all the way there, and I’d only so far seen clips.
sure, but even the NPR article opens with a video of the interview. You can certainly choose to share a YouTube link instead of a written article, and you make great points for why. But for maximum reach and accessibility, I generally lean towards sharing text instead of video or audio, if the option is available. There’s a reason NPR puts all that work into transcribing the highlights!
In my defense, this was just a YouTube suggestion after finishing another video. I do share NPR text links here regularly, but only when the text version is what I run into. This is somewhat the difference between being paid to provide news and volunteering. But I get where you’re coming from.
Being able to see facial expressions and hear inflection allows for a deeper experience. I tend to read transcripts most of the time because it’s just faster. But for understanding who Mamdani is as a full introduction, text alone won’t get you all the way there, and I’d only so far seen clips.
sure, but even the NPR article opens with a video of the interview. You can certainly choose to share a YouTube link instead of a written article, and you make great points for why. But for maximum reach and accessibility, I generally lean towards sharing text instead of video or audio, if the option is available. There’s a reason NPR puts all that work into transcribing the highlights!
In my defense, this was just a YouTube suggestion after finishing another video. I do share NPR text links here regularly, but only when the text version is what I run into. This is somewhat the difference between being paid to provide news and volunteering. But I get where you’re coming from.
Maybe I just put too much thought into this because I’m always scrolling Beehaw to avoid work 😂
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