Word: cameramen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That Friday, a man named Cecil Andrews called the local television station four times threatening to set himself on fire in the town square as a protest against unemployment in America. An official at the station telephoned the police, and then sent two cameramen to the square. At 11:10 p.m. the cameramen found Andrews. They were certain, they said later, that police were hiding somewhere in the small square, and would intervene. So they started to film, watching from a few yards as Andrews doused himself with lighter fluid and fumbled with matches. A flame started...
...people who watched a woman being raped last week, and the cameramen who watched Cecil Andrews burn himself, were not mere inactive bystanders. They were audiences. Social conditioning may explain people's fear of getting involved. But something about last week's events defies explanation...
...Diana was supposed to be there taking riding lessons (family tradition suggests that a Windsor Queen should be able to ride, but the Princess, who fell from a horse when she was small, has no love for the sport). Carraro's information was accurate. After dodging hordes of amateur cameramen and the police, and being scared silly by the Queen's pack of search dogs as he hid with two other cameramen in bushes near the Sandringham riding fields, he clicked off $1,500 worth of shots of Diana, the Queen and Charles on horseback. "Charles...
...also on the map. Three weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal described the scene in a front-page article on the migration of the Northern unemployed to the Sunbelt. Ever since, Tent City's residents, both entertained and irritated, have seen a steady procession of reporters and cameramen pursuing footage and recession-style quotes. The three national TV networks carried stories. "We've had so many reporters out here," says J.D. Dunn, an unemployed construction superintendent from Livingston, Texas, who says he has just landed a job servicing local sewaging plants, "we just can't keep track...
...jangled the eyes of television producers on two continents and offended the artistic sensibilities of still cameramen. "Can't you get him out of that suit?" pleaded one photographer. White House aides feared that it had the whiff of the $2 window at a race track. Foreign functionaries, noting the swaths of plain blue and gray cloaking the ample figures of the other summiteers, looked politely pained when they saw Reagan's cheery plaid clashing with a red carpet or the faded elegance of Versailles...