{"id":3196,"date":"2012-11-04T11:03:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T18:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/04\/romney-rally-at-fiddlers-green\/"},"modified":"2012-11-04T12:26:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T19:26:58","slug":"romney-rally-at-fiddlers-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/romney-rally-at-fiddlers-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Rally at Fiddler’s Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our seats were right next to the press box at Fiddler’s Green yesterday (11-3-2012).\u00a0 We arrived just as John Roberts was collecting gear from his advance work, loading out, bound for Ohio.\u00a0 He was very gracious, though he didn’t like when I said, “So you’re the talent!”\u00a0 Turns out it’s kind of a pejorative reserved for behind-the-lens techs to refer to the “on-airs” as the “talent.”\u00a0 Who knew?\u00a0 We visited with the local crew from Channel 7 just over the wall – very nice gentlemen.\u00a0 For all the crews, it was old guys behind the cameras, younger guys in front, though not that much younger.\u00a0 Denver is a career media market.\u00a0 You don’t start out here.\u00a0 It’s where you might make it after paying your dues out in the provinces somewhere no one has heard of.<\/p>\n

\"Channel<\/a>\"Local<\/a>\"Campaign<\/a>\"Campaign<\/a>\"Henry<\/a><\/p>\n

The local affiliates had the back, upper level of the press box, the front level,closer to the stage, was reserved for the national press who travel with the campaign.\u00a0 All the press-riser real estate had been lined out and assigned to lessees.\u00a0 The network guys arrived shortly before the Romneys took the stage.\u00a0 It was awesome to see the national guys work.\u00a0 They came in like thoroughbreds, lean, purposeful, conditioned by years of transiting the world to capture the leading edge of media.\u00a0 They didn’t look like family men, these Ronin, Samurai warriors of the press.\u00a0 More than occupy their patches of camera real estate, they consumed their environment in the shadows of the show with the mere power of their presence.\u00a0 The locals had put down gaffers tape to protect their wires, brought chairs, some had picked up food, they had moved in for a time.\u00a0 Not the national network guys.\u00a0 Their only connection to the set was a power cable.\u00a0 Fast in, grab the content, check Blackberries, fast out.\u00a0 Campaign Carl made his exit scrambling over rows of seats.\u00a0 When they decide to go, nothing stops these guys.<\/p>\n