July 6, 2009, 1:23 pm EDT -- WXYZ News room, Detroit, MI
"This is legit?" the news director asked.
"Very," television reporter Mary Wilson replied. "I have video from three other cell phones of the same event, this is just the best one."
"Okay. We'll run with it. Think you can have this worked up and polished by six?"
Mary smiled. "I've got it ready to go for 1:30, complete with 'human interest' interview with the little girl. If you didn't already have me on retainer for the weird stuff, I'd have already posted it to YouTube."
"Great!" The director beamed. "I'll work on getting this into the network then."
The computer screen behind him ran the video of an honest-to-goodness superhero, tights, cape and all, rescuing a kitten from a tree and flying away.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
"This is legit?" the news director asked.
"Very," television reporter Mary Wilson replied. "I have video from three other cell phones of the same event, this is just the best one."
"Okay. We'll run with it. Think you can have this worked up and polished by six?"
Mary smiled. "I've got it ready to go for 1:30, complete with 'human interest' interview with the little girl. If you didn't already have me on retainer for the weird stuff, I'd have already posted it to YouTube."
"Great!" The director beamed. "I'll work on getting this into the network then."
The computer screen behind him ran the video of an honest-to-goodness superhero, tights, cape and all, rescuing a kitten from a tree and flying away.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll