My vote for newspaper opinion piece of the year goes to this video from Kansas.com, which is creative and witty satire — the kind of stuff that demonstrates a savvy undersanding of the web and especially web video.
Via Howard Weaver, who writes:
“As I mentioned to you when you were here, I think that to be worth a viewer’s time, an editorial page video needs to be funny or kick ass,” Brownlee reports. Mission accomplished.
I’ll second your vote. That rocks.
I loved it so much I should be using all CAPS here.
This is exactly the type of thing editorial pages should be doing. The standard faceless column of text isn’t going to cut it anymore.
Creative and witty?
Tired and trite in my take.
It may play in Kansas, but some of us don’t live there.
What’s sad is that both Howard (in the original post) and Joe are right.
[…] Here’s a funny, satirical op ed video. Is the music use legal? Will they get sued for copyright infringement? Link via Howard Owens. […]
OK Howard, since you’re a singer, what’s going to be your first political music video? And are you going to wear a wig??
I’m a singer?
I know several people who would challenge that assertion.
I’m sorry… a ‘crooner’…but not a croaker. That would be too frog-like :)