What is Video Journalism?

Video Journalism is written journalism in video form.

It combines the elements of a written article and some elements of broadcast news into one package.

But what separates it from broadcast news is that its organic than processed.

While broadcast news may be washed in glitter graphics.

Video Journalism takes the home movies approach where things are not heavily refined as what we see in broadcast news.

It’s here to tell a story in the way a written article is presented, but with visuals and sound instead of the usual text, photos and illustrations that accompany it.

What video journalism provides is a middle ground for written articles and broadcast news. With the advent of video sharing sites, this method has become an effective way of reporting the news than the current broadcast news methods.

Going forward, this method will be the more of the norm as the 21^st Century moves along for as long as the channels remain free.

The News Industry

What I don’t like about the News Industry is active Censorship.

The News Industry claims they are always telling the truth. But from the 7 years I spent working in those offices, that is far from the truth.

The news industry only panders to advertisers who have paid the publications whatever amount of money to pander out whatever they deem to be “truth.” If the advertiser is not the issue, then some government agent who embedded himself/herself into the industry to suppress it from within.

There are many news stories that would have made it into the paper; but were denied publication just because of those two factors. Even if the publication wanted to publish it, the editor would get death threats out the nose or be discredited by other publications that were paid off.

Classic William Randolph Hearst tactics. Run the papers, rule the narrative.

That is what one must consider when examining the news as do all other forms of published material.

Seeing through the veil of deceptions is the toughest thing people have to realize before progressing the plot.

It may be difficult and hard to do.

But once done, there is nothing anyone can’t do.

AK-47s don't belong in the hands of soldiers, but everyone!

To continue what I said about Ronald Reagan, I must decree the following thing in opposition to his anti-2^nd Amendment position:

AK-47s don’t merely belong in the hands of soldiers. It belongs to every man, women and child who will ever live in this universe.

The AK-47 and so-called “assault weapons” were not merely built for soldiers alone. They were built to protect all that we hold dear from all enemies foreign and domestic. The 2^nd Amendment protects our right to own any weapon we want, whenever we want, for as long as we are not misusing them for malicious intent.

How dare Ronald Reagan piss on the 2^nd Amendment, while masquerading himself as a defender of liberty.

Reagan was never a defender of liberty, yet the GOP parade around him as if he were one.

What the GOP don’t realize is that their lord and savior is nothing more than someone who betrayed the cause of liberty in the name of security. They may masquerade all they like behind the notion that Reagan was the greatest President since Abraham Lincoln. But when truth be told of his actions is when they crash in a pile of broken glass.

It costs a whole lot more to maintain a standing army than it does to allow the everyday people to keep and bear arms. What Sun Tzu said about standing armies remains to be true. Yet the GOP think that more military spending is going to solve all of our security problems. Well it doesn’t, and never had. Instead it runs up the National Debt and causes countries to go under from within.

When everyday people are allowed to keep the same kind of weapons on eye level with the government, we get true national security. When government has vast overwhelming advantages over its everyday people, we have untold tyranny.

The 2^nd Amendment was built to prevent government from having monopolies on weapons whether it be guns, swords, knives, mechs or missile systems. It was never meant to protect people’s rights to merely sport or hunt game.

Let us sing the praises of the good Russian General who brought us the greatest gun ever made. Let us not forget his noble cause and what he stood for when the world was coming to an end.

The AK-47 shall remain the world’s greatest innovation for generations to come. Thou it has freed the world more than any military force the world could ever boast.

Fire Emblem Fates, a year after international release

The release of Fire Emblem 14 (IF/Fates) was a total disaster in both the U.S. and Europe.

When that game was released to the general public, no one could get the whole game on release day.

What Nintendo had people do was have them buy the desired one-third of the game on the cart, then force them to get the other two-thirds as DLC.

The only way to get the entire game on a cart was through the Special Edition.

Not a single store had a copy of the Special Edition on release day. Even if the store did, the store would only be supposedly allocated 6 copies according to one YouTuber who went to a Fry’s Electronics store to buy it on release day in the San Jose area.

For months after release in both regions, Nintendo was seen in a less favorable light about this decision despite the silly PR videos about splitting the game up into thirds. The statements they put out was to “save up on costs.” Then assumed that everyone had outstanding internet connections as they do in Japan.

Well for us other people in other parts of the world, we were willing to pay 80USD for the complete game on release day. It’s not that difficult. People in other parts of the world want to be complete with what they do.

By splitting the game, Nintendo told the general public that ‘if you don’t have the net connections nor the electronic payment means, then you don’t matter.’

The major issue with force downloading the other two-thirds is that not everyone has a good internet connection followed by reliable electronic payment methods. Especially people who live in rural areas. Then if someone were to pick up the 14^th installment decades after release, and reached the decision point, they are most likely not going to continue playing Fire Emblem after they find out that what they picked up is only a third of a game. More the reason why all three thirds should have been released together on a cart.

The Cart did have space to accommodate all three paths with leftover space for the DLC content.

What Nintendo should have done was allow everyone to buy the entire game on one cart than cut it up.

By doing so, this problem is null and void. But since they did what they did, it’s just a sign that Nintendo is willing to sell people a fraction of a general release title, then force you the consumer to force download the rest of the game at extra costs. Much like what Capcom recently did with Street Fighter V.

Whoever at Nintendo came up with the idea to split the game has to be fired at this point.

The idea may have worked in Japan. But for the rest of the world, they want to be complete with everything they do.

This kind of behavior is unacceptable. Imagine if Westwood Studios in the 1990’s forced you to choose between GDI or Nod when C&C was released for 80USD retail? Imagine how long Westwood Studios would have lasted if that decision was made? They wouldn’t have made it very far and C&C would have been another blip on the map for this kind of behavior.

If Intelligent Systems develops another Fire Emblem game that has a decision making component that alters the game by leaps and bounds; keep it all together. People are willing to pay the extra cost to get the entire game on a single cart. Don’t force everyone to download the other fractions of the game as DLC. Be complete with what you do Nintendo.

Don’t cut games up out of convenience believing that the public will go along with it. Because now the public has record that Nintendo is willing to cut corners to make fast cash. It’s nice that Nintendo fixed it with the South Korean release of the game, but the negative reception shall remain.

Ronald Reagan, the greatest manipulator of all time

Ronald Reagan was not the constitutional guy he made himself out to be.

He was an opportunist and the greatest manipulator in U.S. History. He did whatever benefited he and his constituents the most and left the mess for everyone else to clean up.

While he was Governor of CA, he laid the groundwork for the most Draconian Gun Control Laws in America. Everything related to those anti-2^nd Amendment laws original that are associated with California in today’s America stem from him.

The reason he passed those laws was to discredit the original Black Panther Party as a group of violent thugs bent out on spreading Communism. As he feared that if regular people in California were allowed the same kind of access to weapons as the military, California would become a Communist State.

The original Black Panthers may have been socialists, but they were also true champions of the Constitution. Every part of Constitution up to the 1960’s was enforced even when the authorities were out of control. What the original Black Panthers did for America benefited the country more than what Reagan did while he was in both Governor and later President.

Then when Reagan was a President in the 1980’s through the end of his days, he promoted gun control like no one’s business. He may have been a pro-gun traditionalist, but was not pro-2^nd Amendment. During Reagan’s presidency, he past the Firearms Home Protection Act. The Act may have been past with good intentions, but with the inclusion of the Hughes Amendment in the bill is what proves that Reagan was not as pro-2^nd Amendment as the GOP makes him out to be.

Even after he left the White House he promoted his anti-2^nd Amendment views. In the following video and NY Times op-ed, he openly brags about his anti-2^nd Amendment with no regard for the consequences:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/29/opinion/why-i-m-for-the-brady-bill.html

 

If that doesn’t convince you enough, here are some other people including Barrack Obama (when he was still President) who have looked into the matter about Reagan being as anti-2^nd Amendment not so long ago:

 

 

Reagan is also known as the guy who escalated U.S. Military spending without telling the public how America was going to pay for it through Reaganomics. Military spending was out of control under Reagan in his mad dash to collapse the Soviet Union. He may have succeeded in dissolving the Soviet State, but by doing so cost the U.S. a few trillion dollars when everyone adds up all the costs that are both on and off the books.

In addition, he is also the guy who escalated the War on Drugs. Instead of using medical solutions to solve the problem, he in place made it a criminal offense to possess any substance the DEA deemed “illegal”, so that the Prison Industry had a huge leg up against American Manufacturing.

In the link bellow is a written piece on the aftermath of such policies:

http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/nancy-reagans-role-disastrous-war-drugs

 If that is not enough, here is a video by Judge Jim Gray confirming the War on Drugs as a failure:

 

 

Ronald Reagan by escalating the War on Drugs and giving the kinds of benefits that he did for the Prison Industry in turn destroyed American Manufacturing.

As to what everyone could see, Ronald Reagan during his lifetime was more against the Constitution than he was for it. He was in favor of Gun Control as much as Barrack Obama was in the 21^st Century, he was a big government spender despite claiming he was not, and the one who escalated the War on Drugs which has created more problems in the Post-Cold War than what real Communists could have done in a lifetime.

It’s as what Dr. Ron Paul has said many times “you can’t be a Conservative if you are liberal on military spending.” From all the data examined from what I have been able to get my hands on is proof that Reagan was more of a manipulator than a true Conservative.