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![]() Assistant Editor / Co-moderator: Terence Nuzum Established A.D. 2000, March 19. Now in our eleventh calendar year! Number 539 (Vol. 11, No. 30). This edition is for the week of July 19--25, 2010. Hot and Cold Recently, I've been alarmed at how many video bloopers have been occuring and I'm wondering if there is a "revolving door" of employees at the mixing board level. Video clips announced are not the ones shown, graphics behind the weather/traffic man/woman continue to be a gamble (if they show at all) and there were a few times a video error message would display on-air, something I'd never seen before. The on-air talent is left continually improvising a cover-and-segue.
About a week ago, during a morning news show that needed no more glitches, came an awful moment where field reporter Charlie Belcher---live and on the air---collided violently with a kid on a skateboard while trying to meet an instructor across a platform where no less than seven kids were skateboarding up and down on a curved ramp. I hate to knock Belcher who's been a big support to the local arts community, but this was not his best decision. In retrospect, I also blame the fast-as-lightning pace the show insists on, necessitating think-on-your-feet moves when a segment threatens to run long. You can see the skateboard video segment here, and some kid who was present with his own video camera taped his own version so you can see the FOX cameraman also (but you can't hear Belcher except at a distance). It was obvious Charlie felt awful, but the 8-year-old he hit was trotted out later with a small band-aid on his chin, seemingly no worse for the wear.
Other news shows of local-origination have their problems, too, it comes with the territory, but it's usually minimal. I do watch them more frequently than I used to, and I'm always impressed with the talent we have here in Tampa Bay.
FOX13, you have a rich and colorful history, inherited from WTVT's glory days as a CBS affiliate. Please try and shore up the goofs a little more?
As I was watching the weather report on local news recently, and how we're having record heat following a winter that had record cold (and ignoring for the moment any Global Warming mishmash), it occured to me how often we experience hot and cold periods in pop culture and in our personal life experiences.
In Pop Culture... PCR, Here and Now... We've definitely had hot and cold periods, and I'm the first to admit that. Months of heavy activity and attention followed by months of relative calm. But I think that's typical of any public venture when taken in the view of the "long haul". Our fans have grown in numbers but so have our critics. One thing I've learned is that it comes with the territory and not always easy to manage. Politics inevitably creep into the equation and, as focuses and policies change to help us grow into the future, not everyone is going to be happy.
But, after ten years of ups and downs, the core group of PCR is still here and still bringing you a view of popular culture based on our reactions and personal experiences. This is not changing. Nearly all the email I receive from readers reflect a positive experience based on shared memories.
My attempts to expand into multimedia over the years with audio and video recordings has been a torturously slow start-and-stop process, mostly due to time constraints and lack of a structured plan. Ironically, it was one of the main reasons I started Crazed Fanboy to begin with. While the written word became my publishing priority (and still is), happily, the video output seems to finally be increasing and fitting in more regularly this summer than ever before.
The year started very cold in the winter and rather chilly here at PCR, but things are warming up fast. I'm very optimistic about the fuure. A future that's very supportive of the proverbial "test of time".
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