I don't think CBC is that broke just yet... they would probably split the cost of a chartered helicopter with another news outlet. CBC has also borrowed chopper video from Global before if the footage was that compelling (CBC would ask permission first, then "courtesy" the footage with a label stating the video is from Global).
According to witnesses, a screaming man repeatedly tried to get inside the WMAR-TV building at about 11:45 a.m. ABC2 News investigative reporter Brian Kuebler tweeted " suspect tried to get in building screaming LET ME IN and said he was God."
The man, believed to still be in the ABC2 building, then rammed the front lobby three times.
The York Road building has been evacuated, and nearby St. Pius X School is under lockdown. Locals are urged to avoid the area.
According to witnesses, a screaming man repeatedly tried to get inside the WMAR-TV building at about 11:45 a.m. ABC2 News investigative reporter Brian Kuebler tweeted " suspect tried to get in building screaming LET ME IN and said he was God."
The man, believed to still be in the ABC2 building, then rammed the front lobby three times.
The York Road building has been evacuated, and nearby St. Pius X School is under lockdown. Locals are urged to avoid the area.
A note on other TV stations in Baltimore:
Most of them are on Television Hill and are near each other, A notable example was when WJZ and WBAL was evacuated and WJZ was able to set up a makeshift newscast from the garage of rival WBFF Fox 45 whereas WBAL NBC 11 ended up broadcasting from PBS member station Maryland Public Television
Here is WJZ Eyewitness News / Fox 45 co-operation
TV station attack over. (9:56GMT) Mentally ill suspect found barricaded in an editing bay.
Footage of tv station doors being rammed during tv station attack.
https://t.co/iNbPZ9d3va CNN Story how WMAR stuggling to cover this story from their own building
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/13/us/maryland-tv-station-reporters-reaction/index.html WMAR is able to get back on air using their sister station ABC15 in Phoenix, AZ. Pretty amazing. They must have secured a satellite truck from either a rival or a private vendor. They beaming the pictures to KNXV 15 in Phoenix who is beaming the signal back to Baltimore. They using one camera and mic to provide coverage. They have graphics but KNXV is in control. Both are Scripps Televisions stations. They are able to provide this coverage considering the situation. Well done I'd say.
WMAR is broadcasting live as the station begins its technical reboot. Quite interesting tour around the building and the equipment and what they have to do to regain control from their sisters station.
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Well Im 100% sure authorities cleared the crime scene before releasing it back to staff. But the media critic for the Baltimore Sun had a interesting article about the CCTV footage they aired shortly after the attack.
Here is an interesting one. Police chase a man wearing a big coat on a motorcycle. The gentleman takes his coat off and the police lose him. He probably would have got away, at least temporarily, if it wasn't for the presenters in the studio paying attention to the pictures they were seeing.
I've become properly obsessed with police chases on YouTube lately and just watched that one the other day. Hilariously funny. But a good job the cops pay attention to the tv coverage. Sometimes the pilots on the tv choppers contact the police choppers on the air to air freqs and pass on information.
Sometimes the pilots on the tv choppers contact the police choppers on the air to air freqs and pass on information.
As far as I'm concerned, this is a serious conflict of interest. If journalists -- and chopper pilots are journalists -- routinely pass on information to the police, how can various sources with potentially sensitive information trust other journalists working for that station not to do the same?
Journalists are supposed to be the watchdogs of the government (including the police), not their assistants.
There's a difference between informing the police of the same things you're broadcasting that you have observed yourself to passing on information which you've been given in confidence.
There's a difference between informing the police of the same things you're broadcasting that you have observed yourself to passing on information which you've been given in confidence.
Of course there's a huge difference between the two, but it's the principle that makes me very uncomfortable. The police are free to listen in to the TV station's coverage; I just don't think that the chopper pilot -- in his role as a journalist -- should be passing on information to the police. That's not what journalists do.
