Another photo issue

SnarkShark · Jun 23, 2018

Smallpotatoes said: ↑

Here's the latest thing. I think I may have mentioned that he doesn't seem to grasp the idea that a photographer and a reporter's jobs are different and that if the only reason I have to do something is because someone else has to do it, I don't really have to do it.

This afternoon, the day after a very busy day of state tournament games, he chided me for going to just one game and staying until the end. He went to two of them and left in the middle of one. Obviously, because the photography department is short-staffed, they sometimes have to leave one game and go to another one or another non-sports assignment.
He wondered why I couldn't do that.
I told him that I have to stay for the whole game because the whole pint of me being there is to report on what happened during the game and that means how it ended.
He said that has to as well, because he needs to get reaction shots. Well, to me, while reaction shots are a good thing to have, we can use action shots from earlier in the game and it would still be OK to run with game coverage. It would be better if we had reaction shots, but they're not essential. Being able to find out how a game ended is essential.
On the other hand, if I leave mid-game, how would I be able to report on who won?
He said I could call the coach.
Well, if that's what I would have needed to do to find out who won, what was the point of me going to that game in the first place? If a reporter can't stay for the whole game, why go at all?
Does anybody here, for staffing issues, sometimes have to leave one game and go to another? If you do that, how do you make it work?
Because if the photo department has to do it, maybe I will also have to do it, I guess.
(As far as the other games I was not at are concerned, I used a stringer for some of them, probably putting myself out of a job, if I'm to believe the photo editor, and relied on another paper in the company to cover another. For others I called or emailed coaches).
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Maybe I should have figured this out before, but I’m starting to believe you’re making this shit up.

Nobody is this dense, and you obsessing over it is troubling.

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