Cambodia and Thailand are on the brink of war. To many in the West, this comes as a surprise, but here in Southeast Asia we have been watching events unfold for months. This is the full history and...
The video honestly wouldn’t be as good as an article because she has so many photos of the people involved on top of various maps. Too many images break the flow of an article because those images need captions at the bottom, so you have to read a paragraph and awkwardly read the caption of the image that accompanied the paragraph before moving on to the next paragraph. It’s hardly noticeable when you only have a couple of images in a short article or blog post, but it becomes obvious when you have too many images.
The heavy use of images is justified for this case because her target audience are provincial Anglophones who can’t even find Thailand or Cambodia on a map. The border dispute has to do with a temple that 99.999% of Anglophones didn’t know existed let alone know how it looks like. She goes over various political players that 99.999% of Anglophones haven’t heard of before let alone know how they look like.
The video honestly wouldn’t be as good as an article because she has so many photos of the people involved on top of various maps. Too many images break the flow of an article because those images need captions at the bottom, so you have to read a paragraph and awkwardly read the caption of the image that accompanied the paragraph before moving on to the next paragraph. It’s hardly noticeable when you only have a couple of images in a short article or blog post, but it becomes obvious when you have too many images.
The heavy use of images is justified for this case because her target audience are provincial Anglophones who can’t even find Thailand or Cambodia on a map. The border dispute has to do with a temple that 99.999% of Anglophones didn’t know existed let alone know how it looks like. She goes over various political players that 99.999% of Anglophones haven’t heard of before let alone know how they look like.