Secret Squirrel
“Fast as he was on the field, you’re saying he wasn’t on the run?” – WSB’s Mark Winne, speaking to an attorney about a former Georgia Tech football player accused of making terroristic threats.
Winne stood in light rain in front of the Cobb County jail for the opening of his live shot Friday. He tossed to a 1:45 or so package. When he returned for the tag, he was standing in a downpour.
This revealed a classic reporter-in-rainfall dilemma: How do you simultaneously hold an umbrella, a hand mic, and a notebook with the mere two hands God has given you? And flip the pages of the notebook?
And how do you do it without appearing to give the audience the finger?
As they like to say at WSB: We’re number one! Manual dexterity points: √ digit (out of five possible.)
Posted by arky on March 16, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Answer: Lose the notebook. Who can’t memorize a :10 tag?
Posted by Been There on March 16, 2010 at 10:09 pm
I can’t ever remember a 10 second intro or a tag Secret Squirrel has done! They are more like the length of his packages waaaayyyyy too long!
Posted by Buckle Down Winne on March 17, 2010 at 1:29 pm
I love this guy.
Posted by Mike Daly on March 17, 2010 at 7:57 pm
ya know…Fox5 has umbrellas where the logo is on the inside of the umbrella so it won’t appear backwards when deployed in a live shot.