The Next Step in the History of News Reporting?

As the delivery of news has progressed over the past century or so, here are some questions that people might have asked as it changed.

…Why do we need to have news written up and posted somewhere for everyone in town to read, if we already have a Town Crier to read it to us (especially if he’s the best Town Crier in the world)?

…And then why would we want to print up and deliver thousands of newspapers, when all the important news is already being posted in the town square?

…Why would we need to listen to news in our home, if you can read it in a newspaper at our leisure?

…And why do they need to play news reels in movie theaters, if we can already hear news on the radio at home?

…Why would you need to be able to watch the news in your house, if you can already hear it on the radio or see it in the theater?

…And you can already watch news on television in black & white, so why would you need to be able to watch it in color?

…Since we can already watch the news in color, why would we need to be able to see it wider and in a higher resolution with even more color?

…And if you can watch the news in hi-definition on an HDTV, why would you want to be able to see it in 3D ?

“Radio has no future.”
- Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), British mathematician and physicist, ca. 1897.

“[Television] won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”
- Darryl F. Zanuck, head of 20th Century-Fox, 1946.

Right now 3D news content is a novelty.  Some might say a gimmick…but in 5 or 10 years, it will probably be expected.

The Kingston Herald has been experimenting with local news 3D video and photos since the summer of 2010.

Some of that content has been featured in our 3D section, and additional archived and upcoming 3D news will be added there in the future.

We plan to expand our 3D local news coverage beginning this spring.

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Composite photo sourced from Wikimedia

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