Flash Animations

docchimpy

Should they be considered valid sources of information? I believe that most flashes are not made by people with any credibility. Not only that, but flash authors have their own biases, and are working by themselves. In a news channel/paper/whatever, there's a team of people trying (at the very least) a small amount to make the papers sound less biased. Also, multiple journalists may offer opposing points of view, and any bias they might have would cancel itself out. In a flash, this is not the case.

Those are just my views on this, please share yours.

camO_o

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flash animations are usually well researched, unbiased, and never fail to state their sources. i wouldn't be surprised if CNN started showing flash animations in place of regular coverage on a daily basis, sometime in the future.

what a waste of a thread.

reasa

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I'm not sure what flash animations you have been watching, but the majority are just showcases for the animators opinions or ideas, whether they be well researched or not, usually not. As for CNN using flashes...maybe, but they would hire people to work for them and they would be required to uphold the standards that any other news report would have.

This thread could be really good, provided you don't come back with such a **** attitude.

TychoCelchuuu

The thing about a flash animation as opposed to a nationally published book or an article for a newspaper is that you don't have to do any fact checking, and you can make stuff up or bend whatever you want to make a point. They're no more a source of valid information than what some drunk guy in a bar tells you, because anyone with Macromedia Flash (which has a free trial) can make one, and downloading a free trial does not automatically make you a harbringer of truth.

Marine0I

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I cant say for sure, but I think cam0 was being sarcasitc....

Hawkeye

They actually have a way to quote a flash animation via MLE. Have you ever looked at their homepage? You can take a reference from almost anything! A couple examples include telephone books and radio ad.

taboofires

I'm going to write my doctoral thesis on a peice of toast and show you all!

Really now, the medium has no affect on the content other than how easy it is to create. I could do a technical demo of some Human-Computer Interface stuff if I wanted, and it would work reasonably well.

JediYoshi

"Is the internet a valid source of information?"