But the core of what I do at Fusion will be post-text. Text has had an amazing run, online, not least because it’s easy and cheap to produce. When it comes to digital storytelling, however, the possibilities — at least if you have the kind of resources that Fusion has — are much, much greater. I want to do immersive digital stuff, I want to make animations, I want to use video, I want to experiment with new ways of communicating in a new medium. I can do all of that at Fusion.

From Felix Salmon’s essay about why he’s moving from Reuters to start-up TV channel Fusion.

“Text has has an amazing run, online, not least because it’s easy and cheap to produce.” Goddamn, that line alone makes me so angry. The arrogance, the dismissiveness.

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