SOME people don’t get new media, and think that’s new media’s fault. But the fault, dear brontosaurus, is not in new media, but in yourselves.

I’m not saying that new media is perfect. It has warts and all, and kinks that will be ironed out in time, just as any other medium when it was new. What I find laughable, however, is when people don’t even try it out for themselves, before passing judgment on it. Like people who don’t even watch YouTube, yet claim to be experts on online video. People who dismiss blogging, or think they know all there is to know about it, without having tried blogging themselves.

People who try to make everything fit in their outmoded structures and obsolete world views, not realizing that everything is changing around them. You don’t just have to worry about being incompetent. The real danger is in becoming irrelevant. After all, the dinosaurs were pretty competent and successful, brain size notwithstanding… until something happened, and they failed to adapt.

Anyway, here’s a video taken by INQUIRER.net technology reporter Erwin Oliva of Janet Steele, author and associate professor in journalism at George Washington University, sharing her insights on narrative reporting and its role in the new media age.

Here’s a video taken by INQUIRER.net contributor Candice Montenegro of Janet saying that just because it’s not the inverted pyramid doesn’t mean it’s not good journalism.

And here’s another video from Candice, where Julia talks about narrative vs feature writing.

Dinosaurs supposedly died out some 65 million years ago, but the danger is that some of them might have survived up to now, and are walking among us.

Maybe some of them are even people you know.