Re-used tornado video from 6/12/04

[Doug_Kiesling]

Aren't you dancing in the streets then? Being a trusted source and all, and it going to be so hard for "others" to sell stuff. I probably would be.

No Mike, I got told:

"Sorry, we can't buy any video from you because we can't take in ANY stringer weather video now after getting burned last week".

So Mike, you should be dancing in the streets because this whole thing has screwed everyone over and really hosed us big time. I am going to have to do a ton of damage control this week now to make sure we still have a market to sell to for news footage.

It's almost back to leaving the date and time on the video like the old VHS days in the early years of chasing just to prove the video is from the date you claimed.

While the public might forget in a week or two, everyone that works in the media won't forget this for a long time to come.

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

Oh, I read it like you sold it, and that they were only taking the video from "trusted sources". So I read it like that would make you happy, being a trusted source. So I take it you didn't sell it?

How do you do "damage control" on this one? That part I don't get. I don't get what you can inform anyone of that they don't already get.

 

[Doug_Kiesling]

How do you do "damage control" on this one? That part I don't get.

I'll let you know when I figure it out. But someone sent me this, at least their faking your hurricane stuff with humor now.

 

[Darrin Rasberry]

Heh, I saw that on a newsgroup I frequent and I sent who-knows-how-many gawkers to H's website after someone asked for a "way to get a high-rez poster of the original storm." Hope you got at least some business from me Mike, lol

 

[Billy Griffin]

+1 on Doug's comments. I'm sure the local stations will still keep buying LOCAL video when it's easily verified. I've made it a habit that any video or photos I shoot from now on, I do my very best to get some kind of landmark in the shot as well, instead of just the usual "over the open wheat field" shots. In addition, providing the RAW photo files and the actual videotape will help sell the media.

I think this will pass, just give it time.

 

[Anthony Petito]

It just had to happen... Tornado-gate

http://blogs.usatoday.com/weather/2008/07/tornado-gate.html?csp=34

Why does everyone feel the need to put "gate" after everything controversial?

 

[Ryan McGinnis]

BTW, I had the opportunity to speak to someone from Valentine who saw the Valentine tornado this past Saturday. She'd seen the video on the news, and even before it was yanked, though that the video showed an entirely different funnel than what she saw. She described it as a tiny little funnel that went down a bit from the cloud and then right back up.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

OK ... so while I agree that this whole situation is just wrong, and I strongly believe it should have never happened, I really disagree with the media's general failure to understand (or maybe I should say failure to admit) why the situation exists in the first place. Rather than using this example to highlight the real problems that are currently existing with organized media, they are using it as a springboard to create yet more self-catering sensationalism. When I look back over the entire event, it amounts to the fact that the media has taken a story that they paid less money for than most of us pay for a month's worth of gas and have now used it to generate yet more revenue for themselves. I disagree in the way they have painted themselves as 'victims' in all this, and feel the need to respond.

 

[Doug_Kiesling]

It just had to happen... Tornado-gate

http://blogs.usatoday.com/weather/2008/07/tornado-gate.html?csp=34

Why does everyone feel the need to put "gate" after everything controversial?

LMFAO

There calling it "gate-to-gate-gate"

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

It just had to happen... Tornado-gate

http://blogs.usatoday.com/weather/2008/07/tornado-gate.html?csp=34

Why does everyone feel the need to put "gate" after everything controversial?

It appears that in addition to sophisticated GPS systems, laptops with access to the latest radar and satellite information, ham radios and the like, some tornado chasers also consider PhotoShop standard storm chasing equipment.

Standard media retardism right there. I must have missed the part on how exactly the guy reversed the video and sped it up while using photoshop. It was maybe "Premiere Pro'd!" if anything. Or maybe it was "Vegas'd". Or "Pinnacled".

 

[Chad Cowan]

The next must have equipment for video stringers- today's newspaper to verify date.

 

[Shane Adams]

Yeah, it's silly to be reading these follow-up articles being spun into "idiot" stories when they keep omitting the most ovbious fact of these new offerings: "Deeerrrrrr, we're the idiots who let him slip it past us because we not only don't wanna pay, but we're too lazy to do our jobs and actually research things a little."

 

[Shawna Davies]

I just read Peregrine's blog on the media, great work Mike! I think you've hit the nail on the head with that. The media seems to want to get pics, video and interviews out in such a hurry that research has fallen by the wayside.

Jon and I got a call from a media company last week wanting an interview. The lady said she would be in town next week and wanted to set something up. The funny thing is that she thought we lived in Gainesville, FL. All it would take is a couple of clicks on the internet to know we live in MO. How funny...

Shawna

 

[Doug_Kiesling]

The next must have equipment for video stringers- today's newspaper to verify date.

I was thinking more along the lines of "Pay At The Pump Fuel Receipts". Get a tornado then film the receipt or just film the receipt at the start of the tape.

 

[Billy Griffin]

I really need to learn how to do this reverse-flipping thing on video!!! Think about it... "midway through the game, in the fifth inning, Thompson decides to switch from throwing right to left!"
And talk about some crazy new stunts for the Blue Angels at SeaFair this year !!! Seattle Times reads... This year's Blue Angels show featured a spectacular new demonstration of flying backwards!