[ExI] tv news reports

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Lurker Comment

Equipment Is Uniform

It's what separates the Crab Crowd from the appearance of professionals
Just saying that back in the day when I had my my press card it always was
easier when you had a quipment with you, though  attitude trumps everything
Like Gray t-shirts
Smile


On Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 6:01 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> The other day I saw one of those news trucks with the satellite antenna
> towers covering some trivial thing.  There was a reporter there with a big
> microphone and those huge cameras the news people carry.
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> Then it occurred to me to ask: why the heck do they still need all this
> stuff?
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> https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/fox-news-truck-with-tv-antenna-park-in-street-gm601920488-103467627
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> We have cell phones which can transmit reasonably good video real time, no
> mobile satellite tower needed.  No huge microphones needed: a simple
> Bluetooth phone with a boom mike makes it perfectly easy to understand what
> the reporter is saying with one of those.  Those huuuuuge cameras they
> carry on their shoulders, why?
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> So now we have left over from the old days what musta been a jillion
> dollars worth of equipment, none of it necessary anymore because we have
> video cell phones.  Yet the old stuff is still in use at least occasionally.
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> So puzzling.
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> spike
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