Thursday, July 15, 2004

Picture This

One of the biggest aggravations for television cameramen is the guy who stands between you and the image you're trying to videotape.  Photographers in DC have a term for those guys:  "an unidentified body found floating in the Potomac."
 
At least that's the fantasy.
 
And now at least one photographer has come closer to living out the fantasy.
 
The other day, New York Post reporter Vince Morris kept blocking camera shots of a news conference featuring Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton, both Democrats of New York. 
 
This happened in the Senate Gallery.  Folks here are supposed to be professional.  They're supposed to understand that everyone else is there to do a job and you don't go jumping in front of the camera like a high school kid trying to flip the finger during a small market station's live report from the county fair.
 
After the news conference was over, P.G. Cuong, a CBS photographer focused his anger on the oblivious Morris.
 
They got into a shoving match, appropriately captured in pictures
  
 



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