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How many news crews does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
By adamg on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 8:09pm
If it's at Waban the day Green Line service resumes, at least three, Lorianne DiSabato reports:
... I appreciate news crews' apparent solicitude in following up on this important story ... but why exactly is it necessary to have three different networks shooting live footage of an otherwise empty MTBA stop? ...
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I work for 7, and that's
I work for 7, and that's because all the channels copy each other and all get in a tizzy if one is on a big story and they aren't. It's all a big competition.
To cover the re-enactment?
The National Transportation Safety Board is conducting a sight-distance test today as part of a 're-enactment' of the accident scenario. That's an event worth covering.
The re-enactment would have been news
I would have been interested in seeing the re-enactment, but I took this picture around dinner-time on Saturday, when there didn't seem to be anything going on at the Waban stop. On Sunday afternoon when I took the D line into Boston, there was a handful of T workers apparently beginning their investigation, but there no TV crews in sight. So there seems to be an inverse relationship between "actual occurrence of something newsworthy" and "number of news crews present to report it."