# Am I alone in hating the rise in video for online news?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-hating-the-rise-in-video-for-online-news/758798>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 30, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-hating-the-rise-in-video-for-online-news/758798 "2016-06-30T18:05:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-hating-the-rise-in-video-for-online-news/758798/81 "2016-07-08T15:57:18Z")

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> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#):
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> One thing you can do with internet news that you can’t do with a newspaper or magazine is include video with your stories.

I hope I’m not contradicting myself by agreeing with this - videos can be a great adjunct to stories. Some things just gotta move. Car crashes. Fires. Explosions. Dancing tiger cubs. Just make sure it is _in addition_ to the text, and is optional to play, not autoplay.

But when the OP asked about video online news, most of the stories are talking head standing there basically reading a story. Nothing in what he or she says is that special that it has to be spoken. I can read the details faster than they can say them.

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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-hating-the-rise-in-video-for-online-news/758798/82 "2016-07-09T14:47:27Z")

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> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> I hope I’m not contradicting myself by agreeing with this - videos can be a great adjunct to stories. Some things just gotta move. Car crashes. Fires. Explosions. Dancing tiger cubs. Just make sure it is _in addition_ to the text, and is optional to play, not autoplay.
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> But when the OP asked about video online news, most of the stories are talking head standing there basically reading a story. Nothing in what he or she says is that special that it has to be spoken. I can read the details faster than they can say them.

Perfectly stated.

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**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-alone-in-hating-the-rise-in-video-for-online-news/758798/83 "2016-07-09T20:17:45Z")

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> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> And the incorrect assumptions would be…what…?

That companies are not aware that people prefer text.

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