Sometimes, it pays to be the old guy. There are a lot of things I could write about the cop-killer / hostage standoff / media intervention Friday night. I’ll mostly stick to the competitive aspect. First, the thumbnail: A guy inexplicably shoots and injures an Athens / Clarke County police officer Tuesday, then shoots another [...]
Archive for March, 2011
23 Mar
Happy face
The carload of people drove up to our live truck. Two of them stepped out, then swept past our truck to the WAGA truck a few feet away. Within minutes, I saw Russ Spencer interviewing one of the occupants, a woman about my age. We had spent the evening staking out Athens Regional, the trauma [...]
15 Mar
Open season
It turns out I’m a stalker. Like you, I find stalkers to be a little twisted. Maybe that makes me twisted. But I’m a stalker, and so are a lot of reporters. It turns out I’m a pretty effective stalker, too. My stalking instincts rise up when a court case is settled and jurors exit [...]
7 Mar
My New Attitude
During Ronald Reagan’s first term, I worked at KMTV in Omaha. I still have a lot of rose-colored affection for Omaha. It was a competitive three-station market. We had one live truck, a helicopter and a twin-engine plane owned by May Seed and Feed, which also owned KMTV. They took news pretty seriously. Nebraska had [...]
1 Mar
An awkward moment
My illustrious career as a TV reporter has been chock-full of awkward moments. Here’s one you may appreciate. It centers on a question posed to me by a state trooper in McRae, Georgia some years ago. McRae is a town best known for its delightful reproduction of the Statue of Liberty. A conscientious trooper with [...]
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