GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN

Sho Ikeda, once my right-hand picture taker and desperately-needed-last-minute-story contributor back at The Company and now my first-and-last-stop-for-web-related-questions answerer, has got himself published in an actual paper newspaper. Congrats! It's a brief and breezy tour through the media encampment near Mt. St. Helens, its effect on the local economy (good) and reports of Geraldo Rivera sightings. A sample:

With Vulcan silent for the moment, the Fox team is more worried about its jousts with rival journalists. Engineer David Flanigan set up a camera on a prime shooting spot and returned to the van for more equipment. When he came back, he found a CNN crew had evicted his equipment and claimed the prized territory as their own.

"I was ready to cut some cables," Flanigan says. He adds that Northwest TV crews usually get along, leaving the spats to the national teams.

"If this was happening on the East Coast, though, you'd see fists flying," Flanigan says.

Indeed -- or possibly even cars hitting people.

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posted by WWB at 5:11 PM |