do TV cameramen have relationships/affairs with news reporters?

[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.

Not sur where you work but I know a lot of male photographers dating pretty and successful females reporters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Bingo! Hahahaha!




Besides, given that the whole atheistic of TV as a visual medium is dependent on the people who make the actual video that IS television, I'd say it's pretty unlikely that cameramen are stupid neanderthals. In fact, given the incredible complexity probably associated with making TV, I would bet that camerapeople are probably some of the brightest, smartest people associated with the product. There's no shortage of attractive people to be in front of a camera, but I'd bet the real brains are behind it.

[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.

I put reporters and cameramen on the same level.

[Anonymous]

Crackers wrote:
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.

Kevin federline was brittany spears backup dancer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Crackers wrote:
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.

Kevin federline was brittany spears backup dancer.

Some people never get the jokes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Ouch!

[Anonymous]

Yes cameramen do have sex with their colleagues...with their producers, with the reporters etc. it’s a known thing in the field. Anyone who’s says otherwise is either in denial or a liar.

[Anonymous]

Julia Roberts married another woman’s cameraman husband.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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!!!!

I'm dying too - but of course it is true as she stated FOX upfront. Network of choice for vapid female reporters.

[Anonymous]

Cameramen are rarely attractive.
- used to work in TV

[Anonymous]

I used to nanny for a mom who was a cameraman for a local news station. She said a LOT of the reporters are kind of weird--on the spectrum, and it could be embarrassing to be with them because they'd say odd things or ask really invasive questions--which is how they can be reporters--normal people would have the filter not to ask the questions that get to the bottom of things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes cameramen do have sex with their colleagues...with their producers, with the reporters etc. it’s a known thing in the field. Anyone who’s says otherwise is either in denial or a liar.

wtf made you dredge up a nearly 3 year old thread? are you that f***ing bored with your life right now? read a damn book

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes cameramen do have sex with their colleagues...with their producers, with the reporters etc. it’s a known thing in the field. Anyone who’s says otherwise is either in denial or a liar.

wtf made you dredge up a nearly 3 year old thread? are you that f***ing bored with your life right now? read a damn book

Oh, there's the small-market Fox subsidiary Princess Sparkle Pony. She's currently laid off and can't get hired to save her life because she never learned how to shoot and edit her own video, she has zero news sense and her script-writing is terrible. Oh, and her references aren't good either, because she was a snobby B who saw everyone else as beneath her. Karma, honey.

I guess there's always PR...if you can sharpen up your writing skills and take a biiiiig helping of humble pie.

[Anonymous]

How the hell would anyone actually know the answer to your question? Someone who has studied the mating rituals of reporters and cameramen? You are either a troll or a dumbass.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, but this is idiotic.

You seem to assume there is a yes or no answer to this question, and that DCUM posters have access to the results of that study.

What gives with some of these posters??!