What one may think as newsworthy the editor may decide isn't. When I was a stringer for CBS there was a huge fire near Cape Town. A candle factory burned for two days. The enormous flames and smoke was visible for 50 miles. It was comparable to an oil well fire in dramatic effect. I went down and filmed it to my utter discomfort and no small amount of danger. After I moved up the road, about 400 yards, to get a wide view a propane tank in an adjacent yard -- quite a distance from the burning factory exploded. Railways lines, six sets of them, were so distorted that the suburban trains didn't run for two days. The CBS news editor said no thank you. But two days later there was a small disturbance in the city -- some people marched with placards -- and they couldn't get enough.
Don Ann Sanfedele wrote: > Shel Belinkoff wrote: > >> I live in a very small town, and pics like this have often been run as >> either news or human interest. >> >> BTW, I used to own some property in Sonora - or, rather, just outside the >> town. Sonora is larger than the little community in which I live. >> >> Shel >> >> > I wrote to Cotty before reading other responses, similarly > > Also it occurs to me that a burst hydrant in our current > weather pattern > is a bit more newsworthy from an environmental aspect - I > think it is > pretty dry out your way, especially this year, yes? > > ann > > -- Dr E D F Williams www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/ http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/ 41660 TOIVAKKA – Finland - +358400706616 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
