Presidential AV Truck Stolen, Recovered

[NorseHorse]

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

Also interesting, the reporter seems to have produced this segment on her own. Note how she has to move the camera.

[boojum]

Oooops! Some over zealous and under brained thieves are in deep yoghurt. I would love to hear their excuses when they are caught.

That reporter is a trooper. She gets her story even if she has to do it herself. Now that's reporting.

[bcgood]

I hate that the reporter is shooting this herself. I used to work at a News Station and that was what everyone was saying would be the new trend. No budget for photographers/videographers anymore.

[George Necola]

maybe I am wrong but..

I see an empty parking lot (nice white lines tough), reporter explaining something that she "heard the stuff saying, that there was a lot of police action"... but no truck, the original truck recovered, a white truck where we don't know who it belongs to in the same parking lot with a licence plate telling us "for official use only".

so this contemporary art-form of reporting is not compatible with my "idea of journalism".

btw.. I was watching 2 or 3 more "breaking news" on CNN.. the one with the missing child for example... seems like CNN is on a downhill hill trip with their stories... no content, only "estimations", not-relevant stories.. blabhlah.

sorry for the bickering..

[rmx16]

Originally Posted by bcgood

I hate that the reporter is shooting this herself. I used to work at a News Station and that was what everyone was saying would be the new trend. No budget for photographers/videographers anymore.

Me too Puts a lot of my union brothers out of work That's the trend...

[boojum]

For those who actually followed this story, there is not much more in the print media about what actually happened other than the truck being stolen and recovered. Google it. With that small shred of information I still think the gal on TV did a pretty good job of covering what little there was. As for doing her own camera work, who set up the coverage? Who sent her out without a camera person? If she was sent out that way by her employer, shame on her employer. If she had the gumption to grab a camera and do the job all on her own, good for her. She's got gumption.

[radeng]

The reporter would most likely prefer to have support crew. The only winner here is the bean counter at the TV station. Eliminating union production staff is the name of the game at many stations these days. Not good for production values. The viewer loses.

[Thomas W. Bethe]

On air talent doing it all is getting to be the norm unless you are working for a network. First they eliminated the audio engineer and the video person did the audio. Then they eliminated the video person and now the talent sets up the equipment, does the shoot, comes back and edits the material and puts it on the server and repeats this as many times a day as there are stories to cover.

TV stations say they are hurting because of a drop in revenue from commercials (due to the slow down in the economy) and competition from cable and satellite providers. This maybe true but putting out low quality news stories (locally one reporter did a whole standup with the top of her head cut off due to bad framing) is not, IMHO, in their best interest but....I am glad I am no longer in that game.

I studied Journalism when I was it college and it was a prospering profession. Today that is no longer true and loads of reporters and journalist are gone from the nation's news providers never to be replaced. The internet killed a lot of newspapers and so did TV. Now it seems like TV is itself hurting. I talk to more and more people who say they can no longer even watch the evening news because it is so "trendy" and all they do is have stories about mayhem, killings and body counts ( because that is what the TV station think the people want) and there is always a twisted slant on every story they cover. I have hopes that one day someone will wake up a realize that all this gore and violence just promotes more of it.

I wish the the TV stations a lot of luck! they are going to need it in the next couple of years. They are in danger of going under just as the newspapers were a couple of years ago and it is getting worse not better.

[Rolo 46]

Should we be a tad more optimistic?
Murdoch de-skilled Fleet St and our print papers did actually get better looking,if not better reading .
Broadcast is tumbling down the same route,so far worse looking and sounding,content getting dumber by the day....
We live in Hope (so did Bill Clinton,what happened to him ?)

[Jim Williams]

They reported it contained President Obama's teleprompter equipment. A late night host did a very funny treatment on the results of losing that equipment.

If you see it, you will laugh. More than I have seeing my posts deleted here.

[king2070lplaya]

I'm glad to hear they got that gear back, it's just too bad thy couldn't recover the presidents lost integrity.

Ba dum Ching delete it if you must I guess

[recordinghopkins]

200K for two teleprompters, a podium, a pair of sm57's and a couple of speakers on sticks?

[Jim Williams]

Yea, and it was assembled using DOD $1200 hammers. After it was made, the workers used a DOD $1800 toilet.

[recordinghopkins]

Originally Posted by Jim Williams

Yea, and it was assembled using DOD $1200 hammers. After it was made, the workers used a DOD $1800 toilet.