I have to disagree about Moyer -- only in that KNBC used to have the greatest guy who ever made "news" out of nonevents. Back in the 80s, they had a "crime reporter" named Pete Pepper who would appear live on the 11:00 news in locations where things had -happened- only -hours- before. Of course, by the time he hit the air, the carnival had long since left town, but he assured you that things actually had gone down sometime before he got there.
--Dave Sikula On Dec 22, 10:28 pm, "Kevin M." <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:58 PM, stannc <[email protected]> wrote: > > The disheveled look gave him the illusion of more urgency. > > It was -- without question -- deliberate. As I saw working on the > Burbank studio lot, the anchors typically keep their coats somewhere > easily accesible. During earthquake, brushfire, or car chase coverage, > they choose not to wear them (they could easily be slipped on -- it is > not as if anchors have a fireman's pole they slide down in a news > crisis -- they have time to get their nose powdered, but not to put on > business attire?), many even rolling up their respective shirt sleeves > to offer the illusion that the people whose primary job is to read off > a prompter and/or regurgitate information fed to them via an earpiece > were actually hard-at-work. I used to call this the Paul Moyer method, > because in my lifetime I've never seen a man make more out of a > nonevent than he. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
