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December 2003 off camera Website: www.emmysf.tv tale of two stories holiday showcase thu 12/11 Eat lots of food, drink wine and win a digital video camera as well as see what’s being produced in the Bay Area at the December Holiday Showcase on Thursday, Dec. 11th from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at USCF’s Cole Hall Auditorium in San Francisco. Everyone is welcome to present their latest completed work or work in progress to be shown on Cole Hall’s large screen projec- By David Mills tion system. Accepted formats are mini-DV, One story involved history and politics. The “The Michael Jackson accusation is a litmus VHS and DVD. Each presenter will show up other, celebrity and crime. Both got exten- test of journalistic integrity,” said John to a five-minute clip from their work and then sive coverage on television stations through- McManus of “Grade The News.” “To the ex- have a 5-minute Q&A session with the audi- out Northern California. And they happened tent that celebrity alone makes a story the ence. on back-to-back days in November. day’s lead, commercial values have over- To sign up to be a presenter, email to: powered journalistic values.” On November 17, ARNOLD [email protected] with your name, the SCHWARZENEGGER was inaugurated as However, before the “bad” and “ugly” — first, name of your work to be presented and the California’s governor, replacing the recalled the good. format you’ll be using. If you are a BAWIFT GRAY DAVIS. Television stations went all out The Schwarzenegger inauguration was the member, please RSVP with the same infor- on the story and received praise from most dominant story on that Monday in Novem- mation to: “[email protected].” The deadline industry critics. ber. Not surprisingly, it was a huge event for is Dec. 9. On Nov. 18, an arrest warrant was issued Sacramento t-v stations. KCRA and KXTV Admission is free for UCSF students and for MICHAEL JACKSON on child molesta- both started their live coverage shortly be- members of NATAS and BAWIFT, please tion charges. His Neverland ranch was also fore 11 a.m. They carried the inauguration RSVP to [email protected] or call (650) searched that day. Again, t-v newsroom went live, had reaction, then began their midday 341-7786. all out, this time receiving harsh criticism from newscasts. continued on page 4 observers. emmy 2004 competiton underway On your mark... get set... enter! Nominees will be announced on April 22. The 2004 Emmy This year’s Emmy Awards competition is officially un- show will be held Saturday, May 22, at the Palace of Fine der way. The “Call For Entries” is posted on the Arts in San Francisco. Academy’s website: www.emmysf.tv Print your own There are 51 categories this year, including three divisions copy of rules, categories and entry form. Click on the for best newscast. This year, there will be a large market PDF file for each. The deadline for submitting entries (Bay Area, Sacramento), a medium market (Fresno, Hawaii (fees and membership dues) is Friday, Jan. 16th. continued on page 3 Off Camera, December 2003, page 1 war, peace recalled at forum One said it “scared the living crap out of me.” sitting in sand was not the most conducive Another likened it to “butterflies before a atmosphere for writing. He noted he had to ballgame.” And a third said he was unpre- turn his computer off at night because no light pared for the onslaught of anti-war protest- was allowed once darkness fell at his en- ers. Those were some of the experiences campments. recanted during a two-hour forum last month “I wouldn’t look at my watch. I would look at on the Iraq war and the demonstrations the sun to see how much time I had left to against it. Photos © Robert Mohr 2003 (415-647-6647) file a report,” he said. ABC-7 anchor “It was intense,” he said. MANUEL RAMOS, While in Kuwait City, Housley heard constant DAN ASHLEY a veteran reporter at CBS-5, covered many reports of potential missile attacks on that guided three of this year’s protests. He said he was sur- city. He said he was trained on how to put panelists prised by how many demonstrators there his gas mask on quickly in case of a chemi- through the dis- were and how much they disliked the me- cal attack. Housley added he carried no cussion on dia. At one demonstration, Ramos had to weapon and plenty of identification. That was Nov. 12 while conduct his live shot from the top of his van in case he was captured, enemy soldiers two dozen audience members, mostly stu- because of the harassment he received. would know he was a journalist. dents, listened. “At the pro- He said the embedded experience was prob- tests, most JOHN KOOPMAN, an embedded reporter ably harder on his family than it was on him. for the San Francisco Chronicle, was in Iraq people de- from March 12 to April 20. He followed a con- tested the me- “They’re the ones at home not knowing what tingent of U.S. Marines from the sands near dia,” he said. you’re seeing,” Housley said. the Kuwait border all the way into Baghdad. “The impres- Besides covering the protests, Ramos had He said he only had one shower in that time sion I got is to also prepare himself for the “big local story” and lived much like the Marines he was cov- they thought — the death of a soldier from the Bay Area. ering. “I did the full experience,” said we were cheerleading for the war.” All three Koopman. “I went where they went. I ate with agreed they felt the media did a fair job cov- “The hardest job (in journalism) is to ask them. I slept with them.” ering both sides of the conflict. They also pro- someone about death,” he said. ADAM vided tidbits from their experiences Ramos told the young journalists in the au- dience the best way to approach family mem- HOUSLEY, an Koopman said bers in those situations is to park two blocks embedded re- it was “horribly away and walk up to the house. He advised porter for Fox difficult” to journalists to immediately identify themselves News Net- watch soldiers and say you’re sorry to hear about their loss. work, stayed in on both sides Kuwait City for most of the conflict. He die in battle. He The forum was videotaped and is available worked 12-hour shifts when the fighting also said filing for showing in other chapter cities. started, beaming out 104 live shots during reports while the war’s first three days. people on the move ABC 7 reporter After 14 years at KQED-TV, DEANNE LAURA MARQUEZ is HAMILTON is headed to Michigan. In Janu- JIM GOLDMAN has going from network af- ary, Hamilton will take over as director of been named CNBC filiate to network corre- broadcasting services at Michigan State Palo Alto Bureau spondent. Marquez University. She will also become general Chief. Goldman joins has accepted a job as manager of WKAR public television and CNBC from TechTV. a Washington, D.C., WKAR public radio. Hamilton joined KQED Prior to TechTV, reporter for ABC News. in 1990 to launch the series, “This Week in Goldman served at Marquez has left her post at the San Fran- Northern California.” She departs as the San ABC News’ and KRON-TV. where he was cisco station. She starts in the nation’s capi- Francisco PBS station’s vice president and responsible for all high-tech and business tal on Jan. 5. television station manager. news coverage in the Silicon Valley. Off Camera, December 2003, page 2 cbs5 wins 11pm on final day hdtv seminar It went down to the last evening, but CBS5 followed by CBS5 (1.5, 8) and KRON (1.2, won the 11p.m. newscast wars in the Bay 6). Area last month. The November victory was In the daytime hours, ABC7 scored another the third straight win in that time slot by the sweep. In the midday competition, the San San Francisco-based CBS affiliate. Francisco-based ABC affiliate’s 11a.m. For the ratings period from Oct. 30 to Nov. newscast garnered a 3.2 rating (14 share). 26, CBS5 averaged a Nielsen rating of 5.5 CBS5’s noon newscast was second with a By Keith Sanders (13 share) for the 11 p.m. news hour Mon- 2.6 (10), edging KTVU’s noon news (2.5, 10). More than 100 major motion pictures have day through Friday. That was one-tenth of a KRON’s 11:30 a.m. show was fourth (1.2, 5). been shot without film using high-definition point ahead of ABC7 (5.4, 13). The two sta- technology. Some theaters are going HD as At 5 p.m., ABC7 breezed to victory with a tions were tied for first going into the final well. The last time you saw a movie you may 6.9 (18). KRON4 was a distant second with day. have viewed images generated by a digital a 3.9 (8), followed by CBS5 (3.5, 8) and HD projector. Celluloid is giving way to the NBC11 finished a close third with a 5.2 rat- NBC11 (2.7, 7). silicon chip. ing (12 share). KRON4 finished a distant At 6 p.m., it was ABC7 again with a 6.5 (13).