{"id":1060,"date":"2007-09-15T00:02:04","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T00:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2007-09-15T00:02:04","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T00:02:04","slug":"ny_times_publishes_first_video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/15\/ny_times_publishes_first_video\/","title":{"rendered":"ny times publishes first video letter to the editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/video.on.nytimes.com\/?fr_story=54a96b0d367da6ce96eb1401f0e127f76688ddd6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nytvideoletter.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/nytvideoletter.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" border=\"1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nThe <i>Times<\/i> has published its <a href=\"http:\/\/video.on.nytimes.com\/?fr_story=54a96b0d367da6ce96eb1401f0e127f76688ddd6\">first video &#8220;letter to the editor,&#8221;<\/a> a 10-minute mini-documentary by Charles Ferguson on the decision by L. Paul Bremer and other US officials to disband the Iraqi army shortly after the US occupation began. The video is posted as a rebuttal to a recent op-ed by Bremer that tried to redistribute some of the blame for that catastrophic blunder that arguably gave birth to the Sunni insurgency.<br \/>\nThis is no doubt a milestone for the paper, although calling it a letter to the editor is slightly disingenuous. Ferguson isn&#8217;t just your average concerned reader, he&#8217;s a highly respected filmmaker and author who has made a full length doc about Iraq, &#8220;No End in Sight,&#8221; from which much of this video&#8217;s material is taken.<br \/>\nMoreover, at ten minutes, and meticulously edited and produced, filled with interviews with top military brass and gov&#8217;t officials, the clip is more on par (at the very least) with a full op-ed. The main opinion page even features it as such &#8211; ?\u009dunder op-ed contributors &#8211; ?\u009drather than placing it down among the letters. Will we eventually see actual ad hoc video letters to the editor from &#8220;readers&#8221; at large? That could be interesting.<br \/>\nNomenclature aside, though, this is a fantastic broadening of the <i>Times<\/i>&#8216; editorial output. Once again, they prove themselves to be one of the more innovative digital publishers around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times has published its first video &#8220;letter to the editor,&#8221; a 10-minute mini-documentary by Charles Ferguson on the decision by L. Paul Bremer and other US officials to disband the Iraqi army shortly after the US occupation began. The video is posted as a rebuttal to a recent op-ed by Bremer that tried to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905,967,1238,1292,1296,1956],"tags":[2735],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-journalism","category-multimedia","category-newspaper","category-newyorktimes","category-video","tag-newspaper-journalism-video-iraq-newyorktimes-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}