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["Rebecca O'Connell" <rloconne AT unity.ncsu.edu>]

WRAL's anchors actually commented on this. They said that there could be
gusts in one place and not another, and that that might explain how the
reporter could be having problems while the lanky guys behind weren't. Or
maybe they wanted to be really, really sure that she didn't get knocked out
of camera range.

On 9/18/03 6:41 PM, "Beth" <bethellison AT netscape.net> wrote:

> Dude, Elizabeth Gardner is a wee gal. Perhaps, maybe just perhaps, she 
> needed
> an anchor and the other, larger folk in the shot were in less danger of 
> being
> blown away by the winds.
> 
> I may be naive in my thinking on this. I'm just saying.
> 
> Beth
> 
> 
> "Scott Lundgren" <s_l AT mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> This afternoon between 1:30 and 2pm I was watching WRAL's Isabel coverage.
>> As Elizabeth Gardner stood in the wind reporting about the conditions at 
>> the
>> beach, a member of the newsteam was clearly in the shot kneeling to her
>> right and clutching her leg. One could infer this was to keep her from
>> blowing away in the fierce winds. In the middle of her report 3 people in
>> rain gear walked behind her in the shot with seemingly no difficulty. One 
>> of
>> them put his hands up in a classic "shout-outs-to-my-peeps-I'm-on-TV" pose.
>> Neither of the people in the background looked like offensive lineman but
>> general lanky males.
>> 
>> I realize sensationalism crept into local news as the newsroom came under
>> pressure to be just as much a profit center. Besides applying market force
>> in the form of changing the channel, and generally displaying my disgust at
>> staging a shot in search of ratings, what can be done to discourage future
>> behavior ? If media is supposed to be policing government, who's policing
>> media?
>> 
>> - SL
>> 
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