Welcome to the Pac-10, Lane Kiffin

Valiant effort, Mr. Sonner, but many have tried using this line of thinking before you, but to no avail.

 

PC...you're right about the "no cameras" thing being bullshit. But this is one of those times where you suck it up and get what you can get. You can't storm out with your fists in the air every time you don't get your way. Sometimes, you're better off not getting your way. As would have been the case here, apparently.

Not everything is black and white. You really gotta learn that.

 

and again, it might suck, but I find it crazy that you'd rather get next to nothing than be forced into running vo on b-roll, after or before letting the viewers know why you had to go with voice only. frankly, as a viewer I'd be more interested in the story, looking at what he was willing to say on vs. off the camera.

 

Bummer for the print guys. I think the other TV guys are nutless wonders if they went along with it.

Kiffin's attempt to screw the TV guys ended up screwing everyone. Unfortunate, but I'll blame Kiffin on that one, not the TV guy.

 

Um, whatever. He still decided what you got and he decided to give you even less. Congratulations.

 

Oh wait. TV guy also gets a badge of courage for being so ethical about his "disadvantage."

Forgot. Congratulations to Mr. Ethics.

 

Not arguing with that in the big picture. Clearly, you need to pick your battles.

This is a battle I'm OK with fighting. I'm not allowing Lane Kiffin to tell me I can't show him speaking in a news conference. There are plenty of compromises people make on the job every day. That's not one I'm willing to make.

 

That's up to him, so fair enough. Whether I shoot it is not up to him.

 

Not about ethics. It's about a TV station using a TV camera, something that's fairly important in a TV story.

 

again - leave, then. don't screw everyone else in there out of what they were ok with getting.

 

And this is the bottom line. You (PC) say you're not going to let him dictate the ground rules. Yet he did. And was going to from the beginning. At that point you have a choice.

And this guy chose less information. Not just for himself, but for everyone.