A finished flood is a dull flood. What it needs is movement and action:
A television news cameraman paid a $145 fine after police said he enticed three teenagers to ride their bikes through waist-high floodwaters.The boys told police that Gary Abrahamsen of WEWS-TV in Cleveland offered to put them on TV if they rode through the water on a bridge, according to a police report. They said a reporter waded into the water so they would be riding behind her in the video.
Police cited Abrahamsen with misdemeanor disorderly conduct June 22. He paid the fine June 28, according to Norwalk Municipal Court.
Another option providing movement would have been to do the report from a canoe.
I suppose if worse came to worst, they could have even reported the news as it was, sans props and staging.
it's very interesting that you bring *this* up..I am wondering what the big deal is about the water stuff.
The other day on FOX news, when they had some flooding in Texas, they were showing some halfway house guys mulling around on a roof. The water around the bulding was from ankle to knee deep in most places. From the camera view it wasn't entirely accurate..but c'mon. Those and others supposedly were waiting to be rescued..FROM WHAT ?? Whats with all this fear of a little water ??? And so my question is...are they just churning out reporters who have some sort of weird water thing..?? (I've *heard* about those folks..)
I hope this doesn't put me in the rantor class, or qualify as spew..but if it does, so be it.
Hell, if you trap those same shirt waving fools below deck in a sinking ship, they'd break your jaw for a place on the lifeboat..bet that.
Posted by: csason at July 6, 2006 09:08 AMI wonder if they paid the guys to go up on the roof for a poignant Katrina shot.
Posted by: Donnah at July 6, 2006 12:34 PMI think the mistake we're making is continuing to think it's news that's being reported. It's info-tainment, a whole different class of reportage.
Posted by: Retread at July 6, 2006 02:48 PMNews is not part of a network's entertainment division for nothing.
Posted by: Donnah at July 10, 2006 07:45 AM