Frequently, the toughest part about producing TV stories is getting the principals to agree to allow a TV crew anywhere near them. There’s an easy explanation for this. Folks are distrustful of the news media. They’ve seen TV news hack good stories to death with poor storytelling. They’re afraid of having their words and meaning [...]
Archive for May, 2011
16 May
Amateur hour
Most politicians, and their staffs, have sense enough to avoid the hamhanded treatment Gov. Nathan Deal gave WAGA Friday. It inevitably hurts the politician, not the news organization. It happened to Deal Friday. Deal’s communications director Brian Robinson ordered state troopers to banish WAGA from a high-profile news conference. A day earlier,WAGA’s Dale Russell reported [...]
7 May
Roger and me
Memorandum To: Roger McDowell, pitching coach, Atlanta Braves From: LAF Re: Getting you right with the world I read, with amazement, accounts of your encounter with baseball fans at San Francisco’s AT&T (or whatever they’re calling it these days) park last month. Mostly, you’re accused of uttering anti-gay slurs; you then capped it by suggesting [...]
4 May
Standup options, outlined here
When I produced a sometimes-amusing feature segment in the late 90s, it was frequently derailed by inconvenient breaking news. When a madman decides to commit mass murder in Buckhead, nobody wants to hear about the guy who made jewelry out of Viagra. When tornadoes ravage nearby communities, no producer wants to include a segment in [...]
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