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How can you go wrong with penguins?

I think there were a lot of ways this video might have been mishandled, but it wasn’t. The interview is the best part — have you ever tried to interview a 5-year-old?

Penguins waddle into Apopka kids’ hearts

Usually I hate this kind of video because it has no news value. But as Tom Burton of the Orlando Sentinel said when he showed it, you’ll find that people come to the site in large numbers to watch something like this, and then they stay and look at other things.


Categories: video


2 Comments

  1. Funny that you point this one out. I thought it was particularly well shot and edited when I saw it.

  2. Mindy says:

    The editing is well above average. The editor had above-average material to cut — great angles (down on the floor with the kids) and also an above-average interview, thanks to the child’s schoolteacher.

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