do TV cameramen have relationships/affairs with news reporters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm from NoVa, but am working as an anchor/reporter at a smaller Fox station as I build my career.

Your "friend" has nothing to worry about, if the dynamic is anything like what I see here and amongst other colleagues.

Don't get me wrong; my cameraman does have a crush on me. It's really cute. He has a sweet wife who just never lost the baby weight from DC1 before she got pregnant with DC2. You know how it is if you're not disciplined.

But there's no chance anything can happen because I can do so much better. I'm guessing the same is true for your friend's boyfriend's reporter. We get offers from doctors, executives, and (in major league markets) pro athletes. Not to FWBs and flings with personal trainers, maybe hot firemen, and the like. It's fun to tease my cameraman but I'm not going to hook up with him. There's a HUGE difference.

Wow. This may be the most condescending post I've ever seen on DCUM, and that's saying something!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My housemate is dating a cameraman. He works with and travels with a reporter that most people would consider attractive. She is single. He is previously married, divorced about 6 years. Apparently this is a pretty common thing.

She is worried her BF is spending more time with the reporter than her, which I suppose is true since they work together all day. The opportunity is certainly there. And he's known and worked with the woman much longer than he's dated her, so they're already very close.

On the other hand, I think the reporter would have higher standards, and could do better than a cameraman. But I don't know, that's just a guess.

That is very snobbish of you. Cameramen can be very intelligent. I should know my brother was one and he and he knew lots of super smart cameramen. Not sure why you assume that the reporters are smarter. Some are and some aren't.

[Anonymous]

If your friend doesn't trust her BF or feel enough of a bond with him that she's threatened by his friendships and work connections then she should break up with him. If she tends to be jealous in relationships and this I see a pattern for her then she should get help for that. Otherwise she needs to let it go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm from NoVa, but am working as an anchor/reporter at a smaller Fox station as I build my career.

Your "friend" has nothing to worry about, if the dynamic is anything like what I see here and amongst other colleagues.

Don't get me wrong; my cameraman does have a crush on me. It's really cute. He has a sweet wife who just never lost the baby weight from DC1 before she got pregnant with DC2. You know how it is if you're not disciplined.

But there's no chance anything can happen because I can do so much better. I'm guessing the same is true for your friend's boyfriend's reporter. We get offers from doctors, executives, and (in major league markets) pro athletes. Not to FWBs and flings with personal trainers, maybe hot firemen, and the like. It's fun to tease my cameraman but I'm not going to hook up with him. There's a HUGE difference.

I can't tell if this if it's funnier to assume this is satire or assume it is not.

(It is, right?)

[Anonymous]

My friend who was a reporter (now different career) married her cameraperson.

My other friend who was a reporter (now anchor) had a same-sex cameraperson so they were just friends.

So based on my meaningless data, 50/50 chance!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm from NoVa, but am working as an anchor/reporter at a smaller Fox station as I build my career.

Your "friend" has nothing to worry about, if the dynamic is anything like what I see here and amongst other colleagues.

Don't get me wrong; my cameraman does have a crush on me. It's really cute. He has a sweet wife who just never lost the baby weight from DC1 before she got pregnant with DC2. You know how it is if you're not disciplined.

But there's no chance anything can happen because I can do so much better. I'm guessing the same is true for your friend's boyfriend's reporter. We get offers from doctors, executives, and (in major league markets) pro athletes. Not to FWBs and flings with personal trainers, maybe hot firemen, and the like. It's fun to tease my cameraman but I'm not going to hook up with him. There's a HUGE difference.

I can't tell if this if it's funnier to assume this is satire or assume it is not.

(It is, right?)

Channeling Suazanne Stone. http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0114681/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm from NoVa, but am working as an anchor/reporter at a smaller Fox station as I build my career.

Your "friend" has nothing to worry about, if the dynamic is anything like what I see here and amongst other colleagues.

Don't get me wrong; my cameraman does have a crush on me. It's really cute. He has a sweet wife who just never lost the baby weight from DC1 before she got pregnant with DC2. You know how it is if you're not disciplined.

But there's no chance anything can happen because I can do so much better. I'm guessing the same is true for your friend's boyfriend's reporter. We get offers from doctors, executives, and (in major league markets) pro athletes. Not to FWBs and flings with personal trainers, maybe hot firemen, and the like. It's fun to tease my cameraman but I'm not going to hook up with him. There's a HUGE difference.

Enjoy the fact that you still HAVE a cameraman. Because most smaller market stations are rapidly moving towards the MMJ/Vj/OMB/whatever it's called this week. And Princess Sparkle Pony's like you will soon have to carry all that heavy gear and shoot the story yourself, which is totally NOT glam. And you won't be getting many offers from doctors, executives or ballers because you'll be too busy doing two jobs to flirt with them like you do now. By the time you work yourself out of market 100-something, there will be no cameramen left.

Signed,

24-Year Television Producer/ENG/SNG/HNG/Editor/Cameraman/Reporter

[Anonymous]

Segment producer-reporter relationships and affairs are very common.

[Anonymous]

tell us what news channel this affair is unfolding at.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people manage to work together without having sex.

THIS.

In fact. I'm not having sex RIGHT NOW. Despite working with some funny, attractive, well paid professionals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Segment producer-reporter relationships and affairs are very common.

"segment producer"?

Yeah.... someone doesn't know the first thing about TV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm from NoVa, but am working as an anchor/reporter at a smaller Fox station as I build my career.

Your "friend" has nothing to worry about, if the dynamic is anything like what I see here and amongst other colleagues.

Don't get me wrong; my cameraman does have a crush on me. It's really cute. He has a sweet wife who just never lost the baby weight from DC1 before she got pregnant with DC2. You know how it is if you're not disciplined.

But there's no chance anything can happen because I can do so much better. I'm guessing the same is true for your friend's boyfriend's reporter. We get offers from doctors, executives, and (in major league markets) pro athletes. Not to FWBs and flings with personal trainers, maybe hot firemen, and the like. It's fun to tease my cameraman but I'm not going to hook up with him. There's a HUGE difference.

Enjoy the fact that you still HAVE a cameraman. Because most smaller market stations are rapidly moving towards the MMJ/Vj/OMB/whatever it's called this week. And Princess Sparkle Pony's like you will soon have to carry all that heavy gear and shoot the story yourself, which is totally NOT glam. And you won't be getting many offers from doctors, executives or ballers because you'll be too busy doing two jobs to flirt with them like you do now. By the time you work yourself out of market 100-something, there will be no cameramen left.

Signed,

24-Year Television Producer/ENG/SNG/HNG/Editor/Cameraman/Reporter

OMG, I'm dying!!!!

[Crackers]

Don't worry, OP. That would be like a celebrity hooking up with their body guard, or a star singer developing a relationship with a lowly back-up dancer. Unthinkable. Never happen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. Cameramen are the neanderthals of the news business, generally on a lower level educationally and economically than the reporters and producers. They also tend to be macho types. I've been in journalism for 30 plus years and have never considered a relationship with a cameraman or photographer and can only think of one such relationship, in which case the photographer was the female, the reporter male.

Guess that couple in Roanoke were just unicorns huh? Adam Ward (cameraman) was dating and engaged to his morning producer (female).

Uh, no. She was engaged to another reporter at the station, not the camera guy. Please get your facts straight.

Correct. The previous pp was ALL wrong. Each of them were in committed relationships. But not with each other. Previous pp is yucky for bringing them up in this context and having all the facts wrong.

And neither of you have reading comprehension. I saw HE was engaged to a producer. Nowhere in that sentence was the female reporter who died alongside him mentioned as dating him. And the example is completely pertinent to the described situation above. Idiots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. Cameramen are the neanderthals of the news business, generally on a lower level educationally and economically than the reporters and producers. They also tend to be macho types. I've been in journalism for 30 plus years and have never considered a relationship with a cameraman or photographer and can only think of one such relationship, in which case the photographer was the female, the reporter male.

So how many cameramen rebuffed your advances over that 30 years to make you hate them so much, lolz?