The job of journalists is to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable..
“…I’m kind of a go-between, I’m the guy that they can come to when they’ve tried the system out and it doesn’t respond…”
We meet Arnold Diaz of WCBS-TV New York, Gail Anderson of KPRC-TV Houston and Sharon Wright of WMAQ-TV Chicago. They describe what it’s like as the reporter, the responses they get when people notice cameras are there, and on to the theme of how hard it is for the little guy to get anyone to notice when they’re being mistreated. If they’re not crazy or don’t have a camera, nothing will change..
This day, Geraldo’s Television History.