Stan Chambers tells us what the most important thing people should know about the news business. There are many things that are very important one of them being reaction to press, reaction deadlines and reactions to people.
Transcription I think the most important thing is how do you react to pressure? How do you react to deadlines? How do you get involved in digging out information? Those are the tools you really need. And that way you become a very talented reporter and a writer and a news man. And when you have those things you have then the elements and the tools to work. And that’s very important. And also to be flexible because plans go askew very easily but if you are flexible, okay we can’t do that? Well do this. And during that live period when you’re on the air, there are lot of moments like that when you’re talking and your broadcasting and you don’t know what to say because you don’t know what’s next, you better keep on talking. Here’s what’s happening. The good part with television you have the camera to back you up. There is nothing wrong with keeping quiet for a little while. We had the helicopter over the dam probably half hour before it collapsed. Flying over homes, little outlet of the dam was pouring water down pretty fast, we had the helicopter showing all those things with people moving out. We knew it was a serious thing but we never really know this is going to happen. You just can’t believe it. A helicopter went in a full pass, a full screen the dam opened up and water poured out and luckily because we were on for quite some time and people were watching, almost everyone evacuated their homes. So no one was in their homes while the water wiped them out.
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Stan Chambers tells us what the most important thing people should know about the news business. There are many things that are very important one of them being reaction to press, reaction deadlines and reactions to people.
