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What makes working on Thanksgiving even WORSE? Some nut-bag crashing your live shot! Kudos to Jon Goss and Jeff Chirico for keeping their cool... 54117213 Full Schmuck Alert at... http://lenslinger.blogspot.com/2012/11/schmuck-alert-beautiful-loser.html

By now you've probably heard about the brazen camera snatching in Oakland. According to reports, five men approached a KPIX crew at the end of their noon live shot, struck the photog and stole his camera. This clip shows the camera being yanked on-air. It's a scary scenario, with more questions...

Though I was working in North Carolina television at the time, I did not know Bart Smith, Rick Sherrill or Jim Lane. But when all three men perished in the 1991 crash of WTVD's helicopter, the impact sent shock waves through every television station in the state and nation. Since that time...

On a rare solo excursion to the shore, I'll be performing undisclosed broadcast duties in Myrtle Beach this weekend. Any b-roll peeps in the Myrtle Beach area want to gather for drinks this Saturday night? We'll hoist a glass Northward in honor of recovering Kevin!

The world is full of talented TV News reporters. I’m lucky enough to work with some of them. But there’s a trend afoot I find most disturbing and it’s ushering in the age of the VJ. I’m talking about laziness, plain and simple. It’s not a trait most people would attribute to such a...

Dear DreamWorks, Congratulations. With your latest animated release, you've captured the imagination of moviegoers everywhere - for at least a weekend, anyway. We here at the Lenslinger Institute couldn't be happier for you and may even use our children as an excuse to attend this 3-D feast...

from lenslinger.com ... When I grow up, I wanna be just like Greg Pell. After all, dude's a legend; a pipe-smoking wise-ass who's been lighting up North Carolina news scenes since the mid 70's. I, of course, didn't meet him until 2007, when he came out of retirement to school a younger...

Soooo, you've got a big corporate announcement coming up - a groundbreaking of such earth-shattering importance even those stoners from the local free weekly will show up on time. Trouble is, your CEO has all the charm of a urinal. One he starts thanking his cronies, plants wilt, the ounch goes...

I don't wanna rant, but.... Maybe it's my blue collar upbringing, or the fact that I carry a camera and questions into battle unaccompanied every day - but the findings of a recent study really chaps my batteries. Actually, it's not the whole study, for it raises some valid points about the...

As much as I'd love to rid our business of the talking hairdo model, I'm not sure this particular approach will draw viewers, who - to our eternal chagrin - place a higher value on Chet McDimplechin than well-lit, sequenced video with crisp sound. Still, this is one version of what broadcast...

THIS JUST IN:Summer is here and it's even HOTTER than Spring! I know, I know: it seems pretty obvious, but apparently the nation's TV viewers have a hard time wrapping their heads around this increase in heat and humidity. Why else would local affiliates lose their collective cool as they alarm...

"This job is an emotional roller coaster!" The Chief said it and I agreed - and not JUST because he had that crazy look in his eye again. Truth is, he had a point. For as much as we photogs complain about the physical wear and tear of our work, the mood swings of a single shift can rival those...

Some seek out Elvis when they get to Vegas; I make a beeline for one Kevin Johnson. There I bask in the mellifluous baritone of the b-roll.net founder. We talk shop, hoist a few highballs, maybe close out with a song. Invariably, someone strikes up a lens and before you know it the whole damn...

Anyone see Nat Geo's special on the Reagan Assassination attempt? It featured interviews with the network photogs who were there that day, then broke down that famous footage like the Zapruder film. Fascinating... ---------- From lenslinger.com... I was taking the clicker around the horn...

ATTENTION: The following is NOT an endorsement of the oft-maligned VJ Principle. Though I’m sure it will be construed as such by certain contributors, I ask that you hold off on any anti-Rosenblum screeds for two simple reasons: A) This has nothing to do with him and, B) that sh!t is really...

Attention Photog Nation: Lenslinger here, with a special request... I'm looking for a photog who calls himself Lensflare. Not the Nashville news shooter who goes by that very moniker here on b-roll.net, but a young Asian fellow who works somewhere in Ontario, Canada (Hamilton, possibly). To...

Sooooo, who's going to Vegas for NAB? Team Slinger will be there, tripping the showroom floor, cadgng worthless freebies and making fun of all those overdressed sales yaks. Monday night however, Chris 'FTOJRLST' Weaver, Rick 'Turd Polisher' Portier and I, your not so humble Lenslinger, will...

In what may be the most egregious attack on a news crew I've ever seen, three females from the lesser of the Carolinas have pushed Nick Curro out of the running for Schmuck(s) of the Year. It happened in Union, South Carolina when WSPA reporter Charmayne Brown and her photojournalist were among...

"You Sir, with the thousand dollar suit and coterie of supplicants -- can we talk? Yes, I know you 'have the floor', but I got this back wall and half a dying battery, so if you'll just listen while you run through that part of the speech you nailed in the car this morning, we won't waste...

I'd barely been at the American Idol Atlanta auditions fifteen minutes when Cameraman Calamity struck: a piece of missing equipment. Not just any piece either, but the oh so vital wireless lavalier microphone! Somehow, I dropped the damn thing when I fished a stick mic(rophone) out of my...