I witnessed the aggressive tv shlock journalism of Fox 12 News a few days ago.

The camera-person was carrying the camera, walking backward, as a shop-owner was running right at it, in outrage. The effect of the camera-work was pretty obviously to create hyper-dramatic “outrageous” vaguely chilling and claustophobic television footage.

The entire scene looked staged beyond belief. The shop-owner was storming outside her store, speed-walking to the street corner, where she pointed and made loud gestures at broken pieces of concrete.

It’s a Fox 12 Exclusive, I guess, following Meth Watch 2006: Watch for the story of — Portland’s Killer Street Pavement.

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