cameragod
Apr 8th 2007, 04:26 PM
I was looking though some old tapes and found a story I did for C5 news in the UK back in 1999 and I thought it was a good illustration of how we need not only treat the story with respect when it deserves it but also sometimes we should treat the story with the contempt it deserves… Style over content, why not when there is no content.
It was one of those weird ones. Peter Lane and I had a call from the London desk. They needed a story from us. Any story. What they came up with was lame beyond belief.
Assignment desk logic: Slow news day + Robbie Williams is famous = Robbie walk of fame story.
So Peter and I found ourselves driving for 5 hours to get to Stoke-on-Trent. We had no real story. No interviews with any one who knew Robbie and by the way no pictures of Robbie. This is what we came up with.
Robbie Walk of Fame (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2866163876567882838&hl=en)
It was one of those weird ones. Peter Lane and I had a call from the London desk. They needed a story from us. Any story. What they came up with was lame beyond belief.
Assignment desk logic: Slow news day + Robbie Williams is famous = Robbie walk of fame story.
So Peter and I found ourselves driving for 5 hours to get to Stoke-on-Trent. We had no real story. No interviews with any one who knew Robbie and by the way no pictures of Robbie. This is what we came up with.
Robbie Walk of Fame (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2866163876567882838&hl=en)