That’s a sad but realistic view of our society that tolerates ignorance despite our taxpayer funded public education.   Our massive immigration invitation to the worlds poor and illiterate combined with acceptance of their refusal to learn how to read and write has become a major crisis. Too many of our own children, particularly Blacks and Hispanics are allowed to reject the tools needed to escape a lifetime of financial dependency.   Our illiterates are doomed to only receive communication rather than creating and influencing their world.   The future is in clearly creating watchable video.  Government, businesses, news providers and entertainers must cater to our illiterate society.  Of course video communication is now superior to any other form.  Being able to create exceptional video will be the ultimate influencing skill.   We must equip our children with the tools and resources so they are not allowed to fail. The best ca...

Los Angeles, CA —With the shrinking TV audience brought on by competitive cable TV channels and unlimited Internet sources technology determines everything. TV news once provided terrific jobs for photographers, producers and reporters.   Pink slips have been raining in newsrooms all over the world.   Newspapers were limited to putting words and pictures on pulp newsprint and even that was difficult and expensive. The sheer competition has dramatically reduced the revenue that feeds news providers and their workers. Now they all are scrambling to stay in business, keep roofs over their heads and food on their tables. Newspaper and television executives are slowly learning that putting their content on the Internet is the only way to survive.   Suddenly anyone who can write, shot still pictures and much better yet video can compete with the incredible shrinking big boys of television. With these changes newspapers have actually bagged some Emmy...

Boston, MA —Times are changing faster than even the news productions experts could imagine.  Ordinary people are carrying smart phones and sophisticated cameras that can even upload instantly to sites like UStream .  Yesterday the bombing was covered from nearly every conceivable angle by hundreds of cameras shooting high-resolution images.  These images undoubtedly captured the criminals responsible for this mad and cruel act. There were numerous mainstream photojournalists on the scene shooting but for few if any live broadcast cameras their images were not broadcast or published until they were first transmitted to their electronic news gathering hubs for redistribution. Some people were uploading still and video images to Internet sites as they were actually happening.  One thing for sure the world will not have to guess what happened because of the massive presence of cameras.  Courts and the jury will also see many of these images as critical e...

Racliffe Haughton Google+ Brookfield, WI -Yesterday, Radcliffe Haughton , 45 went to the spa where his wife worked, gained entrance and began shooting women.  This was a Sunday when the people responsible for the heavy lifting in the news business were home with their families.  TV stations keep only minimal crews working on the normally slow weekends.  Local police put out a description of this Black male and his automobile complete with a license plate number. Soon broadcasters were claiming that the police got the suspect’s race wrong in a misguided effort to shield the Haughton’s actual race from disclosure.  We can only guess what that was about. TV stations began non-stop broadcasting and webcasting misinformation loaded with buzzwords and gibberish.  This while police were slowly entering offices looking for suspects and victims as they were yet unaware that their suspect lay dead in the building. The media reporters and anchors s...