First of all, this woman, in my opinion, is probably the worst journalist in the world. She’s standing there doing her “live” news, a story about high gas prices, standing in front of a gas station for illustration although the story could have been done from inside a studio for all that it
Remember this one?
mattered, when a nasty car crash happens right behind her. Not a fender bender at all. This was two cars coming from two different directions at speed who didn’t see each other and – whammo!
She didn’t even turn around. I don’t know if she was deaf, totally incurious or just so determined to stick to her script that aliens from the planet Zorgon could have landed – gay, terrorist, glow-in-the-dark aliens – and she would have completed her set piece about high gas prices.
It seems this kind of clip- a live news report being upstaged by actual news, or just something funny- is becoming more common. Maybe that’s because of Youtube and social media – there are thousands of local TV stations around the world, sending out reporters to cover mundane stuff, and something’s bound to be happening in the background of some of the stories. The Sarah Palin turkey grinding incident springs to mind, or the reporter who was out reporting on a hurricane and people were farting around behind him, mooning the camera and so on.
It’s interesting. It’s a look into reality, past the barriers to it that the news stations try to manufacture.
I think it would be a good idea to just place cameras in several interesting places around the world – Times Square, Venice Beach, Trafalgar Square, Red Square and so on. Everybody that wants to be on TV could come and be on TV, people could come up to the microphone and report on whatever they felt like talking about or flash mobs and performance artists could do their thing, and it would all be live, real, uncensored and kind of interesting. The down side is there might be long, boring stretches where nobody actually did anything. But that’s life.
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