Later, they cut and paste reports for broadcast from a studio. Bill Schwartz, a Miami Police spokesman. Throughout the demonstrations of Thursday and Friday, police never considered asking television stations to cool their coverage, he said. But Putney, a former newspaper reporter who for two decades has been with Channel 10, was at times critical of his profession for sometimes assuming too public a role. Today's technology, he said, can allow reporters to use available light instead of special beams that draw crowds.
Photographers can use zoom lenses.
But reporters don't like to do it. They don't want to explain why their broadcast quality is shadowed. As newspeople, they instinctively want to be part of the action. It is a conundrum. After a slow, dull evening of people wandering the streets, waiting for something to happen, Channel 7 fired up its lights and Herbert clambered atop the van.