'All will be lost if we end up doing TV on the web'

The winners from the video photography category of the National Press Photographers Association has sparked a debate among US journalists about whether newspaper web video should be judged by the same criteria as television journalism.
Al Tomkins' post at Poynter sets the tone:
Poynter Online - Tuesday Edition: 2007 Best of Television Photojournalism Contest
And here's a sample of the ensuing debate from the Newspaper Video discussion forum:

I see online video and multimedia as more like underground cinema. More grit, more edge, your grandfather would not understand it type of thing. Arty. Like a quaint one of coffee shop. Not starbucks. Edgy. The story is told, but not by the numbers like the TV dudes are used to doing.Technically I am sure the best TV Journalists are better at this, than I can ever hope to be. I would hope I am a much better print photojournalist than they are. But both mediums are losing to a changing market place. A hyper fragmented market place, so they don't have the answers either.All will be lost if we end up doing TV on the web. It has to be more like short film. Maybe they would like us to do stand up interviews in front of a darkened courthouse under streetlights in the snow. I guess my bottom line is its not TV and never will be. This is why I have never got bogged down in the whole contest thing. Its all about a couple peoples tastes. The public will be your judge.

The winners from the video photography category are listed here
http://www.nasites.net/projects/1296/newsfeatureweb.asp
And it's certainly well worth taking a look at the winner of the news feature section, from the Washington Post, here. It's quite something. I'll be featuring this in the next vlog - which i hope to do tomorrow (once I've got through a vast mountain of judging of my own, from the rather more linear PPA awards).