Can You Say

mind boggling...

A few years ago I was on one of those panels run by Jeff Jarvis on  The Future of the Media.

In this one we were invited to break into teams to try and figure out how to build a media company from scratch, if we could.

My group was headed up by Andy Heyward, the former President of CBS News. 

We banged around staffing and stuff and then a young journalist from Denmark ripped the whole model to shreds.

We could do a lot more with this if we really started from scratch- got rid of the buildings, the carpeting, the staffing, the infrastructure and concentrated on the journalism and the content.  The gear is so light and portable, people can work from home.

At that time, someone was just staring to play with that idea.

Arianne Huffington.

Good idea.

Works.

It works so well that we did it ourselves.

Works.

Amazing.

Now I see that ABC News 57 in South Bend, Indiana is building a local TV news operation that could double as a Museum of Broadcasting.

Astounding, actually.

I am particularly taken by the part at 1:57 "and we rolled out new backpacks".

Backpacks?

Tell me please, please that you are not doing 'backpack' journalism with THOSE cameras.

Are you insane?

Or is your parent company The Chiropractic Clinic of South Bend?