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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by JumpinJesus
I used to think that most people were attention whores and would clamor over each other in order to appear on camera. I don't feel that way anymore. The Chicago Tribune and Fox News came to our school last year to do a story about a struggling school. Our principal held a meeting and told all of us that if we wanted to be interviewed to stay behind and the reporters would ask us questions. Of the 30 some teachers in our building, only 2 stayed behind. Then, when reading the story in the paper, it was easy to get the impression that our school was failing for good reason. I was one of the first teachers out the door. I had no desire to be interviewed or appear on camera. Your explanation makes very good sense and could explain why news sometims appears slanted when people are interviewed.
Knowing this, I'm more likely to believe that this was more coincidence than racism, though I never rule anything out as my tinfoil hat radar is always beeping.
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even of the attention whores that are looking to be on camera for "fun" type things that we produce... it's still hard to find people willing to do what you need them to do when the camera rolls.
we even have huge signs saying something to the effect that "entering premises means you give consent to be on camera" and that even gets people to turn away from a location shoot.
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