Comments on: Lenslinger http://liveapartmentfire.com/2008/09/25/lenslinger/ Suspicious packages, and more Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:43:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Fair and white balanced « live apartment fire http://liveapartmentfire.com/2008/09/25/lenslinger/#comment-2643 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:17:30 +0000 http://liveapartmentfire.wordpress.com/?p=874#comment-2643 [...] Blues most days, you’re missing the most amusing TV news blog in the business.  We’ve written before about our man-crush on Stewart Pittman (though we’ve never actually met).  He’s [...]

]]> By: polly from NY http://liveapartmentfire.com/2008/09/25/lenslinger/#comment-1223 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:43:13 +0000 http://liveapartmentfire.wordpress.com/?p=874#comment-1223 i love doug richards! oops. did anyone see that? ahem. “live from new york, i’m polly kreisman, stretching the boundaries of live apartment fire to places it should really be seen. back to you.”

]]> By: scott hedeen http://liveapartmentfire.com/2008/09/25/lenslinger/#comment-1221 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:55:40 +0000 http://liveapartmentfire.wordpress.com/?p=874#comment-1221 “compulsion to suppress”

saw alot of that in my news life. it really made me feel like i worked for a “news team”. “us vs. them” mentality never made for a great work place feel.

it’s funny that LAF linked to WXIA as a station that is phasing out photogs. it’s a hard pill to swallow to see my former place of employment dismantle it’s photographic achievements. in the world of HD and more and more ways to move video to the viewer…you’d think the photographer would be stronger than ever.

]]> By: Mike Daly http://liveapartmentfire.com/2008/09/25/lenslinger/#comment-1217 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:11:06 +0000 http://liveapartmentfire.wordpress.com/?p=874#comment-1217 In the last few years at WAGA, it was hard to answer the page that said, “Come in early” because of the meatball news lineup of teenage car fatals and apartment fires. But, as a photog, you had to shoot these stories and find a way to separate yourself from the amateurs. That became harder to do when being slung from one story to the next over and over each day, all to have it thrown out the window because someone’s chimney was struck by lightning in the late afternoon.
Looking forward to reading Viewfinder Blues and hoping Mr. Pittman knows how lucky he is to work with Karen Koutsky.
When Karen was the assignment editor at WAGA, there were Friday nights where she had to send a crew to cover something late. There was no overnight team for Saturday Morning, so the crew was sort of out there on their own.
I walked in to the station to drop off a house fire tape at 2 oclock on a Saturday morning. Karen had sent us to cover it earlier. She was still in the building when we returned.
“Why are you still here?” I asked.
“I don’t leave until I know my crews are back safely,” she said.

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