Most television journalists, if they came to it via newspapers, retain a soft spot for print. It’s a purer medium, in that no part of the story is harder to tell than another. With telly, if the pictures aren’t there to illustrate a point, then it is either not made, or arrived at by a device that requires no image other than that of the reporter.
Technical stuff: but the effect might be to blind television journalists to what they see when the camera isn’t rolling. If no image is recorded of something, well, it ‘‘didn’t happen’’.
