Documentaries struggle for a place in new media world
Apr 25th, 2009 by Peter D. Marshall
Read this article from Baltimore Sun.
“Are media workers driving stakes into their own hearts by embracing shorter and shorter forms of digital storytelling – thereby helping create even shorter attention spans among young audience members?
That’s one of the questions posed by Leo Eaton, the Maryland-based producer of such high-end PBS and BBC documentaries as Michael Wood’s The Story of India, in an informal annual state of the industry letter sent to friends and colleagues Monday.
Eaton generously gave me permission to share what he said with readers of this blog. Here’a a bite that seems especially timely with Ken Burns losing his GM funding last month and PBS Monday night launching We Shall Remain, a five-part series on Native American history, the likes of which, some analysts say, we are not likley to see again.”
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