OK, I'll throw one out there that no one else has mentioned.
If you see a marked news truck or a camera crew out there, don't honk your damn horn at 'em. You're not impressing us, you're only the 300th person to do it that day, and you just made us take that much longer to get our work done for the day because now we have to redo whatever we were taping that now has your honking horn blaring out the audio track.
You are NOT on TV just because you see an NBC truck roll by, so there's no need to jump around, yell "hi mom", or act like a general idiot. In fact, that's almost always the way to guarantee I won't put you on TV, even if I were going to in the first place. Which I wasn't.
And when you see your friendly neighborhood TV news photographer, don't walk up to him and tell him the weatherman sucks or you'd like to "fuck the brains outa that cute anchor of yours" (yes I've heard both of these more times than I can count). Remember that the weatherman and that cute anchor are our friends, and are people too.
And quit writing in to your TV station whining about the way a reporter wears his hear or pronounces a word. Shut the hell up. You come do that job and see how well YOU talk
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