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Turdpolisher
http://turdpolisher.blogspot.com
slang we tv photogs use for turning an utterly worthless story into something that sticks to video tape -- polishing a turd. be careful or you'll get some on you. i've been a television news photographer since 1990. i've been telling other people's stories for all my life. here are some of mine.
- Added on: Aug 26th, 2006
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Listed in: Journalists Humor News & Media
- Tags: news photo grotto big raggedy live shot jena 6 newsgasm
Recent Posts
EJECTED!
It took me 22 years in this business to earn my first police escort. My second only took seven days.It was supposed to be a Five Percent Friday -- loaf my way through a dayside shift and then hit the field for the metro's favorite high school footba...
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE!
I've said it before, and at risk of losing my krusy photog's card, I'll say it again. I really love my assignment desk.For the past two days the little woman who tells me what to do for eight hours a day has sent me gallivanting across the metro in ...
FILM AT 11 -- Truisms of Photoggery
Edit-turd's note: Film at 11 is an on-going series of reports aimed at peeling back the skeevie film that has settled over the news industry like that fur on the month-old pudding in your fridge. It is based on years of experience in many turd fact...
INDIANA TOG AND THE TAPE OF DOOM
In news circles, it's almost as highly anticipated as the holiday itself. Of course I'm talking about the newsroom Christmas tape. A snarky little production of gaffs and prat-falls that never ceases to thrill a roomful of well-lubed cynics ready t...
THE CHOCOLATE MELTS IN YOUR MOUTH
It was bound to happen eventually. I'm just surprised it took twenty-two years.Slinging a lens for a living is like walking around with a Kick Me sign on your back. Do it long enough and someone is bound to take you up on it. I ran into my first s...
NEVER TOO OLD TO ROCK AND ROLL . . .
. . . or too young for that matter.Back in May when I took Krusty to the Bludgeon Your Head With Someone Else's Fist Fest, I told the Littlest Loaf Pincher I'd take him to see any group he wanted to see. I knew full well that the kid's an old schoole...
