This makes digital media a very effective, persuasive environment. It's a great place to tell all kinds of stories. In online media, people don't just want to tell stories about things that happen. In a perfect world, multimedia should have the same role in both kinds of storytelling. If you use images, color, sound, and motion correctly in your online storytelling, you have a much greater chance of success.
Multimedia creates a more persuasive environment.
I was part of a photojournalism discussion list, where we started discussing the whole issue of how the paparazzi were making all photojournalists look bad. I took on the task of publishing the site. We launched in Jan. 1998, and now we have quite a variety of material. Some of the work is funny, some is shocking, and some is sad and touching. As far as the contributors are concerned, the goal of this project gives people who normally communicate only with photos a chance to also communicate with words.