Good Video: https://nyti.ms/2z0KFqf
This is a NY Times video about the current independence situation in Catalonia. It gives the background in a way that's not confusing and has a clear focal point: the way separatists are using rhetoric to sell their idea. The video is high quality and the writing is full of imagery, putting the conflict in cultural and historical context. I was engaged the entire time I watched this, and I felt very educated at the end.
Bad Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVciU8ZUseY&feature=youtu.be
Completely separate from the political bent of this video, it does a bad job of telling the story of the Kevin Spacey scandal. The anchor/reporter's video is not high quality and his audio is muffled. The setting looks unprofessional, and he has no script. I think going off the cuff would work if he were talking with someone else, but his rambling left me very bored and disengaged from the story. The video he uses is all taken from the Washington Post and other sources, but instead of giving credit, he just uses an entire picture of their website. There's also a very long add inside the broadcast before he gets to the story. I know this is not meant to be news in the NY Times sense, but nonetheless, it is an attempt to tell a story and break it down that severely misses the mark because it does not use storytelling techniques like script writing or using actual gathered video.
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