Part of the Team
Until the all-purpose video-journalist becomes the norm, news-gathering in television will continue to be the work of at least two people–the camera operator and you the reporter. For most practitioners the idea of specialist support is an attractive one, as the involvement of a separate camera operator allows the reporter to concentrate entirely on editorial matters.
Yet it is a curiosity of television journalism that it concentrates such power in the hands of a non-journalist: whatever motives are ascribed to and criticisms made of reporters, strangely little attention is paid to camera people, who make editorial decisions every time they point the lens towards one scene in preference to another. This is in complete contrast ...
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