Show i' - ’ £ nmimvpiyww s ' ' J I’ ' l' ' '!iVJirrbri' " - ' ' ' ' r ' ' : i i ' - WV "! v pvw ” r'v ''' t ' ' ' ' ‘ f " - J ''r ' ' r ' ' : rr 4 : o k there was the no harder to do Olympics thing probably During not send some photos ana not tell some stories It was even harder ihan watching the German and Russian journalists crumble hard-boile-d eggs over their waffles first thing in the morning Some stories we wanted to tell but then remembered that we were American journalists and we didn t have a page 3 to use as a holding bin for smut However the majority ofphotos and stories that we couldn t share with readers didn f fit in simply because the anecdotes and experiences didn V fit the bill for being newsworthy Yet there is a difference between being a good news story and a good story in general 1 TV IS KING J If Photographers they not only had to compete with other still artists from around die world but also with network and Olympic television cameras Imagine it sitting at a venue positioning yourself getting the athlete in the viewfinder and then BAM! a camera television swings up and blocks your shot Sometimes it seemed as if we had a better shots of the NBC camera crew’s bald spots than we did of athletes u ' ' - rrw-:1 ' ’ r'- 1L ' -i t 1 ' "V ' : BUNNYBOOTY TheSrc aren't too many things more scary than a giant mascot if you think about it People getting in these ridiculous suits v: -- 'v - $ V & & MEDIA HORDES Bng ' witlLSope knd r ' 3000 other jxint journalists is at best at worst exasperating There is no such ling as a scoop when there are that many press memb feid literally a new deadline every hour (for some poor J oiirailiit) ' : No matter how early you arrive at a venue there were alwavs seven eight 30 people there all of them writing to get' the shme shot die same quotes as you are JUST DIVORCED ThisphbCols simply gratuitous It needs no other pxpla-nadother than'to say that it goes to show that people in different ways Wonder if the fcel- wMvbO oii c ' - 'V ‘ " SCALPERS S ' V - It’s amazing that as a journalist you p ‘i go along with tai dtfatemeut oncers do duty go to a rearing tpfoind oir cover a i 'hy going around hugging strangers Apparendy we are not the only ones a little leery of mascots This one particular bunny mascot scared the living daylights out of some foreign media member Ah the stories he must tell about Utah “So l was sitting in the bus riding up to the venue when this large rabbit came up to me and tried to embrace me ” f' ' 1 ' - 1 |