How's this for ethics ... TV edition

[Rhody31]

Covering women's state amateur today, which was won by local golfer on 16. The twosome finished in like 2 hours, 30 minutes.
As everyone pulls into the clubhouse, Second-Place TV station sports reporter arrives. She films the trophy presentation then asks the two women - one was 19, the other 20 - if they could grab a putter and pretend to putt out the last hole, including the postgame handshake/hug.
The production was awkward to watch and even funnier, because when she reports the story, she's going to say how the match finished on the 16th hole but her video comes from No. 18.
Schieza told me I should write my lede about how Local Golfer played so efficiently and won so quickly that even the TV Reporter didn't get to see it.

EDIT: Changed the thread hed - not fair to say all TV people do stuff like this.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Re: How's this for ethics ... TV people at it again

Bet the TV people took a break.

 

[hondo]

Re: How's this for ethics ... TV people at it again

Covering women's state amateur today, which was won by local golfer on 16. The twosome finished in like 2 hours, 30 minutes.
As everyone pulls into the clubhouse, Second-Place TV station sports reporter arrives. She films the trophy presentation then asks the two women - one was 19, the other 20 - if they could grab a putter and pretend to putt out the last hole, including the postgame handshake/hug.
The production was awkward to watch and even funnier, because when she reports the story, she's going to say how the match finished on the 16th hole but her video comes from No. 18.
Schieza told me I should write my lede about how Local Golfer played so efficiently and won so quickly that even the TV Reporter didn't get to see it.

Surprised the golfers sat still for it.

 

[Rhody31]

Re: How's this for ethics ... TV people at it again

Bet the TV people took a break.

They don't need to; they don't work six hours a day.

 

[DanOregon]

Re: How's this for ethics ... TV people at it again

And I'm sure "reenactment" was featured prominently when it aired.

 

[Alma]

Re: How's this for ethics ... TV people at it again

Covering women's state amateur today, which was won by local golfer on 16. The twosome finished in like 2 hours, 30 minutes.
As everyone pulls into the clubhouse, Second-Place TV station sports reporter arrives. She films the trophy presentation then asks the two women - one was 19, the other 20 - if they could grab a putter and pretend to putt out the last hole, including the postgame handshake/hug.
The production was awkward to watch and even funnier, because when she reports the story, she's going to say how the match finished on the 16th hole but her video comes from No. 18.
Schieza told me I should write my lede about how Local Golfer played so efficiently and won so quickly that even the TV Reporter didn't get to see it.

Frankly, you should. That's the story. TV stations fabricating finishes is bigger news than the state amateur golf tournament.

 

[Rhody31]

Re: How's this for ethics ... TV people at it again

Covering women's state amateur today, which was won by local golfer on 16. The twosome finished in like 2 hours, 30 minutes.
As everyone pulls into the clubhouse, Second-Place TV station sports reporter arrives. She films the trophy presentation then asks the two women - one was 19, the other 20 - if they could grab a putter and pretend to putt out the last hole, including the postgame handshake/hug.
The production was awkward to watch and even funnier, because when she reports the story, she's going to say how the match finished on the 16th hole but her video comes from No. 18.
Schieza told me I should write my lede about how Local Golfer played so efficiently and won so quickly that even the TV Reporter didn't get to see it.

Frankly, you should. That's the story. TV stations fabricating finishes is bigger news than the state amateur golf tournament.

I've already been thinking about it. It may end up being a sidebar to the story.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

Re: How's this for ethics ... TV people at it again

At a small paper I worked for as a kid, a photog got fired for doing this. She was late for an assignment and the game was over, and she got two high school girls coaches to put their entire teams back on the field to stage the shot. The community was small enough that word got around pretty fast, and the paper's editor heard about it and fired the photog. The coaches felt terrible after that -- they did not understand the ethics and they and the kids had been telling the story because they thought it was funny. I do not know if the photog had pulled this before; this was several years after I left. We'd staffed a bunch of games together, so I know she at least usually made an effort to be there while games were in progress.

 

[KJIM]

Re: How's this for ethics ... TV people at it again

Wow, a local "Flags of Our Fathers."

 

[Rhody31]

Re: How's this for ethics ... TV people at it again

Thinking more about it, I'm kicking myself for not taking a picture of the staging. Damn.

 

[Alma]

Re: How's this for ethics ... TV people at it again

Covering women's state amateur today, which was won by local golfer on 16. The twosome finished in like 2 hours, 30 minutes.
As everyone pulls into the clubhouse, Second-Place TV station sports reporter arrives. She films the trophy presentation then asks the two women - one was 19, the other 20 - if they could grab a putter and pretend to putt out the last hole, including the postgame handshake/hug.
The production was awkward to watch and even funnier, because when she reports the story, she's going to say how the match finished on the 16th hole but her video comes from No. 18.
Schieza told me I should write my lede about how Local Golfer played so efficiently and won so quickly that even the TV Reporter didn't get to see it.

Frankly, you should. That's the story. TV stations fabricating finishes is bigger news than the state amateur golf tournament.

I've already been thinking about it. It may end up being a sidebar to the story.

Hope you do. The reporter staged a sports scene for all of, what, 12 seconds of a newscast? It's a minor-but-real violation of the public trust.

 

[Double J]

Re: How's this for ethics ... TV people at it again

Thinking more about it, I'm kicking myself for not taking a picture of the staging. Damn.

Tomorrow, you should re-stage the staging and get your picture that way.

 

[Rhody31]

Re: How's this for ethics ... TV people at it again

Thinking more about it, I'm kicking myself for not taking a picture of the staging. Damn.

Tomorrow, you should re-stage the staging and get your picture that way.

My head just exploded. Would the two wrongs make one of them right?

Alma, I e-mailed the sports director at the station and asked for a copy or link or something of the newscast from that night. I was covering an event and missed the 6 and 11, so I'm hoping the reporter realized how awful of an idea it was an never let it see the night of day or ran it, told people it was stage and made some cheesy joke about it.

 

[sgreenwell]

I agree with the others - the reporter behaving badly is now the far bigger story for you than the amateur golf tournament. That's a great story. (Although for sexist reasons, I hope it's not the cute one.)

 

[Rhody31]

I agree with the others - the reporter behaving badly is now the far bigger story for you than the amateur golf tournament. That's a great story. (Although for sexist reasons, I hope it's not the cute one.)

Umm, then you might not want to read my story.

 

[sgreenwell]

I agree with the others - the reporter behaving badly is now the far bigger story for you than the amateur golf tournament. That's a great story. (Although for sexist reasons, I hope it's not the cute one.)

If by cute one you mean the Ice Queen then, sorry dude.

Damn you both. But yeah, that's a big time story.

 

[HanSenSE]

TTIWWAP

 

[murphyc]

Thinking more about it, I'm kicking myself for not taking a picture of the staging. Damn.

You lazy slacker.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Covering women's state amateur today, which was won by local golfer on 16. The twosome finished in like 2 hours, 30 minutes.
As everyone pulls into the clubhouse, Second-Place TV station sports reporter arrives. She films the trophy presentation then asks the two women - one was 19, the other 20 - if they could grab a putter and pretend to putt out the last hole, including the postgame handshake/hug.
The production was awkward to watch and even funnier, because when she reports the story, she's going to say how the match finished on the 16th hole but her video comes from No. 18.
Schieza told me I should write my lede about how Local Golfer played so efficiently and won so quickly that even the TV Reporter didn't get to see it.

Frankly, you should. That's the story. TV stations fabricating finishes is bigger news than the state amateur golf tournament.

I agree that this is wrong, but it's not news.

Journalists care, but nobody else does.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Thinking more about it, I'm kicking myself for not taking a picture of the staging. Damn.

Tomorrow, you should re-stage the staging and get your picture that way.

My head just exploded. Would the two wrongs make one of them right?

Alma, I e-mailed the sports director at the station and asked for a copy or link or something of the newscast from that night. I was covering an event and missed the 6 and 11, so I'm hoping the reporter realized how awful of an idea it was an never let it see the night of day or ran it, told people it was stage and made some cheesy joke about it.

Slackers!
They should go the Taiwan TV route; and digitally recreate the event; the finish, trophy presentation and makeout session, and evening-ending bra and panty tickle fight that may or may not include Tiger Woods.