December 10, 2024 • 10 mins
Guest Host James Lott Jr, CEO of JLJ Media, talks about the 5 Ways Ernie Pyle Changed The Journalism World.
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Welcome to the Ernie Pyle World War Two Museum podcast
here on jail J Media. I'm your host this week,
James lodging Or, CEO and founder of jail J Media.
You've heard my voice before a few times a few episodes.
I am back for this episode and I want to
go a shout out to Doug Has of course, he
was our regular host of the podcast. Shout out to him.
(00:44):
It's my turn. I was just in in Dana, Indiana.
I went to a restaurant around the corner from there.
It was really really got me really good. I had
to see, uh, the Earth Pop Museum was decorated for
the holidays. I was able to see that, so I
was like, Hi, guys, So shout out to everybody at
the Early Pile Museum. Andy and all the folks over there,
(01:08):
had a great time. I was with Andy Peters. We
actually went to some for a future podcast and also
video video component to this. He took it around to
some of the Pile family grave sites in Indiana, Illinois.
So I'm going to put that together and have that
(01:30):
for you guys, probably a few episodes from now. So
I'm working. I'm working on that right now, but first,
I said, come on, because I'm all abou already pile
right now, I'm all about him. I'm following all different
schools out there, who are who are in his name,
and just kind of reading up on him, and I
just I just am fascinated by him because I think
(01:51):
I would like him if I knew him, and if
I had met him and I was around at the time,
probably I would like him. But these are so I'm
going to give you my as do search on him.
These are the five ways that Ernie Pyle changed the
journalism game. I want you know the Johnson world, which
I want you to have to hear this. Number one.
(02:12):
He was he's credited for personalizing the war reporting. And
we had we talked us on previous episodes before how
he focused on the personal experiences. But there's these regular
soldiers and and now you just don't understand that was
You know, nowadays everything is personal, right, everything is about
the personal life. But back then, the soldiers were kind
(02:33):
of faceless and nameless. It was about strategy battles. It
was about maybe the military leader's names you would know
and you wouldn't know the other folks. But he really
went into the actual soul juror and they share the
struggles and fears and and brought the humanity of the troops.
(02:56):
So the readers were back at home one huge devour
whatever they can find out about their loved ones. Could
even almost in some cases actually hear about their actual
loved one. He would say their name and talk about them.
So you're sitting at home waiting for him to come
home and one if he's okay, and you actually find
out at that moment he's okay, or what's going on
(03:16):
and how he's feeling. The readers, of course fell closer
to the realities of war and it just was a
great thing. It just is. The impact was that the
storytelling was so intimate. I mean there's i mean everyone
war correspondentary where have now are a descendant from him?
(03:38):
And from doing that humanizing the humanization of a complex
thing such as War number two, he's credited as as
part of the person one of people who innovated the
human interest approach. Right, It's always like the this, the
straight up, this, this this, this, this is a human
interest story. Right. Ernie would find compelling stories in just
(04:05):
everyday situations. That's a new standard for journalism. I just did.
I mean, it's like, you know, he wrote about the soldiers,
He wrote about small town life, and he came from
a small town. He wrote about the aftermath of war.
You know we recently stuff. He really captured the essence
of his subjects, I mean, the soldiers, the situations. It
(04:28):
was very authentic. Now that's the thing that you know,
we look forward today and so adding the human interest
story that's now part of every news, every kind of
thing out there, it's all about human You have the
straight up medical stories and these stories and the crime
(04:49):
and all that, but human interests. We can look at
him as one of the forebears of the human interest story.
He kind of proved that regular folk could be interesting.
Number Three, he elevated the role of the war correspondent.
And he was in but he was in it. He
(05:11):
was in the front lines, kids, There's no joke. He
was in the front lines. He risked his life to
provide the first hand a counsel what was happening in
these war in the war. His is his dedication show
the world the critical role journalists, the journalists play in
(05:34):
documenting history. We need journalists, we need you need people
there and and it's scary. You need folks, You need
folks in the front lines. You want the full true
story of something, especially it comes to war, you need that.
You need folks who are fearless, who will go out
there and do that. And he was one of that.
He was one of the ones, and his impact is
(05:55):
just it's so right on prioritizing on the ground reporting.
I give a shout out to all journalists past and
present who have risked their lives made sacrifices to get
the story when it comes to war in our form.
(06:18):
He's also credited for developing a relatable writing style, so
now it's not just you know, robotic talk and just
big words. He actually wrote in a conversational way, which
is something that I do. I write a conversation. It's
like you can feel him talking to you and telling
you the story himself, and so he wrote in that.
(06:39):
He wrote in a very approachable tone. Readers love that,
no matter who you are, they loved it. He's also
a very vivid descriptor. He totally described everything in details,
so you got every out like you, I feel like
you were there without having to be there, because this
(07:00):
is the way he wrote it. Because it was so
relatable and it was like conversational people could understand it
and take it in. It was easy to relate to it,
easy to listen to it, easy to hear it because
the style wasn't so buttoned up. His impact of question
for that was that he he he helped bridge the
gap between journalism the way it was and storytelling the
(07:23):
way it was, putting them together. So now news reported
in a way that maybe some would say now it's
look too maybe infotainment. But he did help encourage in
a story and a piece, a story piece, Wait sixty minutes,
great example, they do journalism and storytelling. That's a great example.
(07:46):
Or CBS New Sunday they do, they do that right,
So that's kind of that's my direct descendant and number
five shaped the post war world of journalism. His work,
I mean, his work was emotional, it was psychological, it
(08:07):
was unyielding. It showed war in all its dimensions, and
it's something that he prided on. But also it included
the effects of the war afterwards and didn't he didn't shrigcote.
It high affected families, communities, individuals. Because of him, it
(08:34):
helped shift post world journalism in a way that it's
now more comprehensive. The coverage is comprehensive about the long
term effects of war, the broader implications of the events,
inspiring a more nuanced approach in many ways. So he
helped you that, I mean just amazing, amazing, amazing. So
(09:00):
five ways he did this was personalizing or reporting, innovating
human interest approach, elevating the war of the role of
the war correspondent, developing a writing style, and post shaping
the post war journalism world. Ernie Pold did all that.
He helped you all that. And it's just if you
read this stuff, you'll see it's it's the truth. It's
such the truth. So go Ernie Pile. Olways say, go
(09:21):
any Pile. I'm a fan. I wish I wish he
was a loby to be friends, be talking, having a
beer or something and talk about stuff. He probably was
like one of the funnest people to hang out with them. Sure,
I'm James Lott Junior. We have the show. Of course,
you can check out all streaming audio services. There's a
few videos and they're on our YouTube channel JLJ Media.
(09:43):
Wherever you find this, go ahead like subscribing, comment and
do all that again shout out to Doug Hester, does
his show every every couple of weeks for us, and
then the museum itself, and to Andy Peters and everybody
have a great holiday because released since during the holiday season.
And and to all that served, thank you for your service.
Welcome to the Ernie Pyle World War Two Museum podcast
here on jail J Media. I'm your host this week,
James lodging Or, CEO and founder of jail J Media.
You've heard my voice before a few times a few episodes.
I am back for this episode and I want to
go a shout out to Doug Has of course, he
was our regular host of the podcast. Shout out to him.
(00:44):
It's my turn. I was just in in Dana, Indiana.
I went to a restaurant around the corner from there.
It was really really got me really good. I had
to see, uh, the Earth Pop Museum was decorated for
the holidays. I was able to see that, so I
was like, Hi, guys, So shout out to everybody at
the Early Pile Museum. Andy and all the folks over there,
(01:08):
had a great time. I was with Andy Peters. We
actually went to some for a future podcast and also
video video component to this. He took it around to
some of the Pile family grave sites in Indiana, Illinois.
So I'm going to put that together and have that
(01:30):
for you guys, probably a few episodes from now. So
I'm working. I'm working on that right now, but first,
I said, come on, because I'm all abou already pile
right now, I'm all about him. I'm following all different
schools out there, who are who are in his name,
and just kind of reading up on him, and I
just I just am fascinated by him because I think
(01:51):
I would like him if I knew him, and if
I had met him and I was around at the time,
probably I would like him. But these are so I'm
going to give you my as do search on him.
These are the five ways that Ernie Pyle changed the
journalism game. I want you know the Johnson world, which
I want you to have to hear this. Number one.
(02:12):
He was he's credited for personalizing the war reporting. And
we had we talked us on previous episodes before how
he focused on the personal experiences. But there's these regular
soldiers and and now you just don't understand that was
You know, nowadays everything is personal, right, everything is about
the personal life. But back then, the soldiers were kind
(02:33):
of faceless and nameless. It was about strategy battles. It
was about maybe the military leader's names you would know
and you wouldn't know the other folks. But he really
went into the actual soul juror and they share the
struggles and fears and and brought the humanity of the troops.
(02:56):
So the readers were back at home one huge devour
whatever they can find out about their loved ones. Could
even almost in some cases actually hear about their actual
loved one. He would say their name and talk about them.
So you're sitting at home waiting for him to come
home and one if he's okay, and you actually find
out at that moment he's okay, or what's going on
(03:16):
and how he's feeling. The readers, of course fell closer
to the realities of war and it just was a
great thing. It just is. The impact was that the
storytelling was so intimate. I mean there's i mean everyone
war correspondentary where have now are a descendant from him?
(03:38):
And from doing that humanizing the humanization of a complex
thing such as War number two, he's credited as as
part of the person one of people who innovated the
human interest approach. Right, It's always like the this, the
straight up, this, this this, this, this is a human
interest story. Right. Ernie would find compelling stories in just
(04:05):
everyday situations. That's a new standard for journalism. I just did.
I mean, it's like, you know, he wrote about the soldiers,
He wrote about small town life, and he came from
a small town. He wrote about the aftermath of war.
You know we recently stuff. He really captured the essence
of his subjects, I mean, the soldiers, the situations. It
(04:28):
was very authentic. Now that's the thing that you know,
we look forward today and so adding the human interest
story that's now part of every news, every kind of
thing out there, it's all about human You have the
straight up medical stories and these stories and the crime
(04:49):
and all that, but human interests. We can look at
him as one of the forebears of the human interest story.
He kind of proved that regular folk could be interesting.
Number Three, he elevated the role of the war correspondent.
And he was in but he was in it. He
(05:11):
was in the front lines, kids, There's no joke. He
was in the front lines. He risked his life to
provide the first hand a counsel what was happening in
these war in the war. His is his dedication show
the world the critical role journalists, the journalists play in
(05:34):
documenting history. We need journalists, we need you need people
there and and it's scary. You need folks, You need
folks in the front lines. You want the full true
story of something, especially it comes to war, you need that.
You need folks who are fearless, who will go out
there and do that. And he was one of that.
He was one of the ones, and his impact is
(05:55):
just it's so right on prioritizing on the ground reporting.
I give a shout out to all journalists past and
present who have risked their lives made sacrifices to get
the story when it comes to war in our form.
(06:18):
He's also credited for developing a relatable writing style, so
now it's not just you know, robotic talk and just
big words. He actually wrote in a conversational way, which
is something that I do. I write a conversation. It's
like you can feel him talking to you and telling
you the story himself, and so he wrote in that.
(06:39):
He wrote in a very approachable tone. Readers love that,
no matter who you are, they loved it. He's also
a very vivid descriptor. He totally described everything in details,
so you got every out like you, I feel like
you were there without having to be there, because this
(07:00):
is the way he wrote it. Because it was so
relatable and it was like conversational people could understand it
and take it in. It was easy to relate to it,
easy to listen to it, easy to hear it because
the style wasn't so buttoned up. His impact of question
for that was that he he he helped bridge the
gap between journalism the way it was and storytelling the
(07:23):
way it was, putting them together. So now news reported
in a way that maybe some would say now it's
look too maybe infotainment. But he did help encourage in
a story and a piece, a story piece, Wait sixty minutes,
great example, they do journalism and storytelling. That's a great example.
(07:46):
Or CBS New Sunday they do, they do that right,
So that's kind of that's my direct descendant and number
five shaped the post war world of journalism. His work,
I mean, his work was emotional, it was psychological, it
(08:07):
was unyielding. It showed war in all its dimensions, and
it's something that he prided on. But also it included
the effects of the war afterwards and didn't he didn't shrigcote.
It high affected families, communities, individuals. Because of him, it
(08:34):
helped shift post world journalism in a way that it's
now more comprehensive. The coverage is comprehensive about the long
term effects of war, the broader implications of the events,
inspiring a more nuanced approach in many ways. So he
helped you that, I mean just amazing, amazing, amazing. So
(09:00):
five ways he did this was personalizing or reporting, innovating
human interest approach, elevating the war of the role of
the war correspondent, developing a writing style, and post shaping
the post war journalism world. Ernie Pold did all that.
He helped you all that. And it's just if you
read this stuff, you'll see it's it's the truth. It's
such the truth. So go Ernie Pile. Olways say, go
(09:21):
any Pile. I'm a fan. I wish I wish he
was a loby to be friends, be talking, having a
beer or something and talk about stuff. He probably was
like one of the funnest people to hang out with them. Sure,
I'm James Lott Junior. We have the show. Of course,
you can check out all streaming audio services. There's a
few videos and they're on our YouTube channel JLJ Media.
(09:43):
Wherever you find this, go ahead like subscribing, comment and
do all that again shout out to Doug Hester, does
his show every every couple of weeks for us, and
then the museum itself, and to Andy Peters and everybody
have a great holiday because released since during the holiday season.
And and to all that served, thank you for your service.
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