Lenslinger ponders how TV coverage of spot news is changing

FOX-8 cameraman Stewart Pittman, a.k.a. "Lenslinger," covered yesterday's job fair at GTCC, and makes some startling comparisons:

1) Our nation is in dire peril. For a community college job fair, there were more forty-something Dads with lost looks in their eyes than at Home Depot on a Saturday morning, and 2) the average news crew has dropped a lot of weight…

Of the four fancycams in attendance, three were being operated by teams of one. Not by shooters sleepwalking through their third spray-job of the day, not by college kids with lenses the size of yo-yo’s, but by reporters who shoot, shooters who speak (and one jack-ass photog who thinks he’s Hunter S. Thompson). My point: The future is here. With on-air advertising in the cellar and TV stations about to go through the same cutbacks now eviscerating the newspaper industry, the solo-newsgatherer now walks among us.

As Bruce Hornsby sings so eloquently..."gonna be some changes made."



E.C. :)