News anchor Mylous Hairston from WIVB-TV
Come on!
How hard is it to pick up a camera, go out and get a story and cut it on FCP?
Apparently too hard for former WIVB TV News Anchor Mylous Hariston.
He would apparently rather quit his job than have to do that.
Or maybe he just can’t.
It’s a little weird, actually. Here is a man who has made his living, in theory at least, as a TV journalist. Well, the tools of the trade in the TV journalism business are a video camera and an edit deck. That’s how we make the stuff that appears on TV. It is for us as a pencil and paper are to a newspaper reporter. Imagine a newsaper journalist who would say ‘pencils and paper and writing? Naah.. I let other people do that.  What I do is take the credit.”
Mercifully, these days are coming to a close. And for one TV news ‘anchor’, they just did.
The Buffalo anchor wrapped up a 20 year career in local news.
Of continuing concern to union members is the right to assign camera and editing duties to reporters. Hairston said the station’s reporters had been trained to shoot and edit.
“It’s tough,†he said. “I actually went out Wednesday and shot my own video, which never made air. It was a struggle. It’s a different skill set. The last time I shot and edited video was when I was leaving Elmira in 1989.â€
Hey Mylous – It isn’t that tough.
Seriously.
You can learn to do this.
You can learn to take control of the medium in which you report.
You can.
I tell you what Mylous.
You get in touch with me and i am going to offer you a free membership in NYVS.com.
I tell you want else – you show some effort and I will come to Buffalo myself, at my own expense, and teach you how to do this.
What do you say Mylous?
Why flush a 20 year career down the drain.
Why not learn to be literate in the medium in which you have worked for so long.
Don’t you think it’s about time?
