A while back, Jake mentioned he'd done this piece (we put up a lot of Jake's early work on Transom.org and this piece is tied to that fact), but I just now got around to listening to it. It has a nice curve -- movement through time and space, a full outing, with commentary and revelations along the way. It's just self-deprecating enough to keep you from feeling that unfair potshots are taken, but it does look coldly at what passes for journalism. It made me think of doing an hour at our station on backstage media stories. I bet there are some other good ones here at PRX. Now, to find them...
Review of "Being Photographed"
Jay Allison
Posted on February 10, 2004 at 05:41 AM
A while back, Jake mentioned he'd done this piece (we put up a lot of Jake's early work on Transom.org and this piece is tied to that fact), but I just now got around to listening to it. It has a nice curve -- movement through time and space, a full outing, with commentary and revelations along the way. It's just self-deprecating enough to keep you from feeling that unfair potshots are taken, but it does look coldly at what passes for journalism. It made me think of doing an hour at our station on backstage media stories. I bet there are some other good ones here at PRX. Now, to find them...