“Hey — it’s hump day!” As a part-time reporter at WXIA, I would occasionally utter this out loud among my full-time colleagues. I would do it on Tuesdays, just to annoy people. It worked. My part-time work week went from Monday to Wednesday typically. But during much of that time, the BL and I had [...]
Archive for June, 2010
27 Jun
Trophy case
There are three functions for an Emmy, the wing-tipped trophy handed out Saturday by the Southeast division of NATAS. The first is so that the winner may have a suitable hyphenated adjective to describe his TV career in the event that he warrants an obituary upon his passing into the great live truck beyond. “Emmy-winning [...]
23 Jun
Sand wedge issue
One day earlier this month, I met a man named Jim Choi. Choi is the manager of the Northcrest Driving Range. I owe our acquaintance to Nathan Deal, the former Congressman and current GOP gubernatorial hopeful. Deal met Choi the same day I did. Aside from an accommodating personality and a well-appointed golf driving range, [...]
20 Jun
A loose screw
Update: See the last line of graf #3. One day a fifth grade teacher at Oak Grove Elementary in DeKalb County contacted the household to relay some urgent information: You need to know that your son has a dark side that I’m unaccustomed to seeing in ten year olds. The teacher found it disturbing. In [...]
14 Jun
Fined by OSHA
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined WSB $5000 for safety violations surrounding its live truck accident in November. The accident took place when a WSB crew exited the parking lot of the Fulton County jail with its microwave mast raised. The mast came into contact with some 115,000 volt transmission lines above Rice [...]
10 Jun
Oily encounter
Monday, WAGA’s George Franco got arrested while covering the oil cleanup in Pensacola Beach. He was charged with misdemeanor battery during an encounter with a BP subcontractor. “Franco grabbed his arm and spun him around,” the police report says. Read the reports by clicking the images below. Photographer Chris Rosenthal rolled on a portion of [...]
6 Jun
Fall guy
Conventional wisdom suggests that political candidates campaign every waking hour. The facts are different: Political candidates in big markets spend much of their time raising money. They do it personally, frequently on the phone, and as far from camera range as possible. I don’t know what candidate Rob Woodall was doing last week when I [...]
3 Jun
Sunny day, real estate
She sees a world where human beings answer phones, where e-mails requesting information are promptly returned, where newsmakers are forthcoming and available for comment at her convenience, and where the craft of television is applied with care and cleverness every evening, with plenty of time before deadline. He’s the jaunty photog who can’t bear to [...]
1 Jun
Profiling
Occasionally, the TV news goon finds himself in a space filled with people, and has to randomly select potential interview subjects from the crowd. This happens in shopping malls. It happens at ballparks. It happens at airports. My latest brush with it was at Hartsfield-Jackson. It was a lesson in humility, a subject in which [...]
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