Word: cameramen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legged Ayatullah, then move to shots of Death-to-the-Shah street crowds, who by now economically wave their fists most fervently when they see the camera's red light upon them. Next the "students" appear, enjoying the dream of every terrorist and airplane hijacker: to have television cameramen vying to record their loudest threats and wildest allegations. This has usually been balanced, if at all, by a brief low-key response from the State Department spokesman, and by the infrequent appearance of an unimpressive publicity man for the Shah. Anchormen and their producers are generally scrupulous about presenting...
Down the hall at the newstand, they are hawking papal t-shirts, bumper stickers, decals, ribbons, and anything else they can find. It is about 1:45 p.m., and the line-up begins. Cameramen use their tripods and lenses, some big enough to polevault with, to clear away the opposition. But the Secret Service is checking all bags. We descend two very gray, concrete flights of steps and peek out into the mist. God is spitting on Logan airport as we find our places and, like everybody else, go running for the front row. They're not checking boarding passes...
Professional climbers, including Beverly Johnson, who was the first woman to scale Yosemite's El Capitan by herself, were recruited for the high work. They doubled for actors and assisted cameramen who were lashed to precarious ledges. Everyone was ferried up by helicopters borrowed from an Army Reserve unit, and most of the crew worked 14-hour days over a period of six weeks. Several chose to remain overnight in a cave on the rock face. "There was one guy who was like a human fly," marvels Captain Richard Dominy, the commander of the copter unit. "He liked...
...conviction of Financier Billie Sol Estes because the carnival-like atmosphere of his televised trial in Texas had deprived him of due process and subjected him to "a form of mental-if not physical-harassment, resembling a police line-up or the third degree." At the Estes trial, twelve cameramen jostled for position, and bright lights and a tangle of wires and equipment turned the courtroom into a broadcast studio...
...media budgets for summitry now exceed in many respects that of the Government for the same occasion. Cameramen stake out every important site at exorbitant rates. ABC furnished its people with more badges than the Austrian police could claim. The briefing books assembled by TV research staffs were often better than those put out by the Government...