Law in Motion at KobreGuide
Are you spending too much time surfing channels or cruising YouTube for quality documentary film?
Absent my NetFlix picks, I'd be wailing 600 channels and there's NOTHING to see!
Now there's KobreGuide with its own law channel here.
The Guide takes its name from its publisher and editor Ken Kobré whose textbook (right) has been widest-selling text on photojournalism in the world for nearly thirty years.
I'd be excited about this new way to find quality moving journalism on the 'net whether or not my good friend journalist-mediator Jerry Lazar wasn't serving as Editorial Director -- a guy with some of the best instincts for quality journalism in the country. Here's how the Kobre Guide describes itself:
This project is an antidote to comprehensive Web video portals, such as YouTube and MetaCafe... We're focusing instead on handpicked, high-quality documentary-style journalism that is being produced primarily by major media outlets -- and frustratingly difficult for consumers to find...
We're a "curated" site (to use the latest buzzword, now that "edited" seems to have lost favor), which means that we're relying on discerning eyes and ears of people like YOU (and not search engines or web bots) to help alert and point us to the creme de la creme ...
We've already located scores of prizeworthy multimedia gems to showcase at launch, and now we're soliciting input from smart folks like you, who are in a position to know about and share the good stuff out there...
Criteria? ... Think "60 Minutes" TV newsmagazine-style journalism (NOT daily news or event coverage) -- but geared for the Web... Mainly video, but also compelling audio-slideshows, or a hybrid thereof...
In short: True (nonfiction) journalism Web multimedia stories of the highest professional quality...




Comments (2)
Read through and enter the discussion by using the form at the endJerry Lazar - September 20, 2008 12:23 AM
Thanks for your support, Vickie! Much appreciated!... We'll strive to make sure there's always plenty to see!... JL
Suzanne White - September 20, 2008 11:07 AM
This is way cool. I mean waaaaayyyy cool. As I just watched a five minute new documentary on French TV about Sarah Palin's Alaska, her family and their PRIDE in the fact that the gun merchant sells special guns for tots and teens. I always wish and wish for wider distirbution of those docu-videos that are made in France. They are highly professional and of fine journalistic quality and Americans and other web crawlers never get to see them. I wish you best of good luck with this new endeavor. Love, Suzanne