Rji-storytelling

Websites not designed to do good thoughtful reading. Most video online is not story. Newspapers are losing their ability to do story telling.

Fancher says why extend storytelling online? Jackie says because that's the way we pass along culture and if we can't do that, we die as a culture. It's like the troubadors had to learn how to do writing and the people who developed the Gutenberg Bible had to learn how to do mass-market publications outside the church.

Jackie:

With the decline in storytelling, we have lots of information, but few stories. And we are less informed because of it. Know too much and know too little.

A home for the craft of story

Peggy: It's the transition to a new age and the forms that sreve the basic human need.

Jackie thinks somewhere at the base of that has to be the written word.

What about interviewing for print, video, audio. Each are different.