Word: bang-bang
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Tired of Hollywood bang-bang? Try a little tenderness...
This was part of his reason he says he asked to go on the assignment to Central America. He wanted not only to produce "shot up, bang-bang journalism" but also to capture "the feeling of the people trying to live there." A recent honor which Reed received seems to suggest that his desire to depict the human-side of tragedy is not just a goal but a talent. Earlier this year he won the prestigious Nikon World Understanding award for his Central American shots...
...Voiceover, segue, intro and out of sync have been part of the more general language for a long time. Now there is the out-tro, the stand-up spiel at the end of a news reporter's segment. A vividly cynical new item of TV news jargon is bang-bang, meaning the kind of film coverage that TV reporters must have in order to get their reports from El Salvador or the Middle East onto the evening news...
...condemned what may be TV's biggest weakness, one discussed on every episode of Viewpoint to date: obsession with the "visually sensational." Seconded Jennings: "The producers in New York say, 'You have got to have bang-bang [pictures of violence].' That is a sad rule." Yet Viewpoint introduced its Middle East segment with shot after shot of bang-bang, some of it several years old. And Laurence, who works in London, reported the unremarkable results of a poll of American viewers' attitudes toward foreign reporting while he stood in front...
...guerrillas combined. Those who strike it lucky are envied by the others. One night, at the microwave station feeding the day's catch to the U.S.,-this reporter, who had found only sleeping soldiers after a day of fruitless searching, was told by a competitor that "ABC has bang-bang just like Viet Nam [the highest class of footage]. Tim Ross [ABC freelance correspondent] has a colonel in a jeep, just like central casting, saying they have a wounded black guerrilla they suspect is a Cuban...