TV Reporters vs. Hurricane Gustav
There are many, many differences between print and broadcast reporters.
Here's a big one: When there is a hurricane outside, we newspaper people stay indoors. The indoors we stay in may be in a hotel room right in the storm's path, but we're definitely not outside where you could get smacked in the head by a flying mailbox.
Only when a reporter is smacked in the head by a flying mailbox will this sort of TV stand-up stop.
But first, watch this lovely package put together by CNN, of all the TV reporters (including CNN crews) who went to Louisiana to give us first-hand accounts of what it's like to be bounced around by wind and rain.
And let's please hope they don't come down here next week.
DAN SCAPUSIO joined the Sun Sentinel's online team in 2008. A self described Internet enthusiast, he says the World Wide Web brings him joy, sadness, excitement, joy and a deep sense of terror all at once. For him, it's a crossroads where college humor and the most valuable scholarly information can be found and, in some cases, even melded.
