I don't know about equipment - and the ethics of commercial tv esp is
an oxymoron - but Caleb, being part of the rural ABC network, would
have been part of getting out life-saving information, ie public
service- xA
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Christopher C Jones
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> This looks like being the worst fire disaster since the establishment of
> the colonial settler state, here in Australia.
>
> >From the journalist ethics I was taught this is a situation where you do
> not film and do not scribble shorthand notes. There is also the safety
> aspect where your presence may put other lives at risk.
>
> Aside from this, am I correct in understanding that the electronics
> today's media depend on cannot operate in these conditions. I seem to
> remember a Sony Betacam cannot operate in these sorts of fire
> conditions, but I may be wrong. It hit 40 here by 11 AM and my Toshiba
> laptop is struggling indoors under an air-conditioner and still the BIOS
> shuts it down because it overheats. I have manually throttled the CPU to
> 37% which allows me to use a text editor, email and web browser. As for
> any graphics work, no chance. Best wishes, Chris Jones.
>
> On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 07:18 +1100, Caleb Cluff wrote:
>> The media were not allowed into Kinglake. It was too overwhelming.
>> There were bodies in the streets, in cars. Families died.
>
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