Live TV Reporter Moved to Tears
A number of my "Practice of Journalism" students were moved by an interview with Walter Cronkite, in which Cronkite discussed his famous emotional display while reporting the death of JFK. People watch live broadcasts in part because of the emotional jolt they receive through the instantaneous connection to the scene of a news event. Much live news coverage is pointless and shallow -- as when a reporter stands live on the roadside where an accident occurred, long after the rescue crews have gone home.
A veteran Los Angeles TV reporter wept on air Tuesday, moments after a firefighter rescued him from flames that engulfed his news van as he covered the California wildfires
I also found an interesting website that contains audio clips of famous news broadcasts, from astronauts in the moon to to Cronkite's report on JFK, and even a report on a flying disk sighted near Rosewell, New Mexico.
http://soundsofhistory.com/sampler.html
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Just another incident of crappy news budgeting.
They are going out to cover FIRES for goodness sake. Shouldn't they have something that will run if a fire heads their way?
I guess not.
I love to see a man cry.
Just another incident of crappy news budgeting.
They are going out to cover FIRES for goodness sake. Shouldn't they have something that will run if a fire heads their way?
I guess not.
I love to see a man cry.