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slang we tv photogs use for turning an utterly worthless story into something that sticks to video tape -- polishing a turd. be careful or you'll get some on you. i've been a television news photographer since 1990. i've been telling other
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TICK, TICK, TICKER
Another era has passed into the Big Raggedy history books, without much fanfare -- at least not outside the hallowed halls of your favorite news station. The celebration it's caused inside is another thing all together. Poofier hair-dos, happier ha...
DON\'T DICK WITH THE SOAPS
It's a lesson all interns learn their first day on the desk. Don't dick with people's soaps. There's just something about all those high-dollar babes strutting around their made-for-TV mansions sporting bitchy tudes that the blue-hairs (and a photog ...
OUTSTANDING
Forty years of combined television experience, and the pod people have us in an empty field.Nineteen months ago Red Stickians approved a casino somewhere near this spot. Since then, lawyers have been lawyering, bankers making bank, and the gaming co...
WAKE-UP CALL
As much shit as I talk about this business, it would be easy for one to assume that I should have packed it in a long time ago. Truth is, I considered it. Television, with it's constant deadlines, multiple stories a day, warrantless live shots, and u...
WHY DO I ALWAYS MISS THE GOOD SHIT
I poked my head out of the edit bay about noon-oh-nine. I was late to a gathering of journalist-types -- lunch, speakers, and questions -- must be the Baton Rouge Press Club. It's a snooze fest, but somebody's got to carry their gear five blocks (par...
