Colin:

For a short daily your video moves along well. In one sense it makes me sad that TV doesn't take the time to cover stories like this and also that newspapers have cut back on their video.

As usual your VO helped stitch things together well and folks should watch this for camera handling craft, ie. hand-held and on sticks.

While I liked your focus on the community coming together, I really wonder what makes the Westboro folks tick. I am sure that was outside the scope of a daily.

There is a fine line to be walked in how much you showed of the Westboro folks signage and opinions and it might help folks if you discussed some of your thought process in this regard.

I am curious how the community reacted to your video?

I like the pacing. It really moved along, keeping me interested enough to watch the whole thing. My favorite moments were the interaction with the police officer and they transgendered lady at the cross walk. I though both of those moments seemed very genuine. 

I liked how this was put together, but I wonder whether the first line of your voiceover "A message of hate came to Spokane" is objective enough. It certainly grabs my attention, but journalistically it seems to be too close to editorializing.

Peter - I debated that one in my head for awhile. This falls into the continuum of are there two legitimate sides to every debate or issue? Are there positions that are so extreme we as journalists need to describe them as such?

What is objective for this particular story? The police officer spells out the larger 1st amendment issue. If these folks were part of the community or lived near town, I think a different perspective might be needed, but this 'church' does this across the country.

Yeah, I don't have a problem with using the word "hate" per se, heck, it's right there on their signs. I just think we need to consider whether someone would come across as one-sided.