Summer School in Lockdown, ALBUQUERQUE NM, SWAT Deployed

I am pretty lucky in that I have extensive satellite equiptment that covers about 20 Ku-Band Satellites.  These are the ones mostly used by SNG trucks on scene, Helio feeds, and network feeds.  So occasionally I will catch something in progress and be able to get it up even before the AP.  What you will see from my post is like the AP.  I send a one line comment on what is breaking, followed by MTF (more to follow)  than start looking at the local papers, TV, Stations, to wait for them to post something.  They know the area better and will do a better description.

I also have a neat thing that is open to all internet users now.  If you don't have all that satellite equipt there is a site called Live News Cameras.  The moderater is on my site 24/7 at Politisite plus I have mostly political news.  I think that if the LNC and NP would get together it would change the news business.

So that is why you got it from me first as I was 13 minutes before a local station there and 19 minutes before a radio station there.  They are posted  to the story as the info comes in. 

The SNG truch might be on scene but what they do is work on the set up, talk to the station through their IFB and I hear half of the conversation.  So after they get what they are going to say and practicing and writing it down.  Talking to people about what is going on.  I put up a post.  So I actually beat the station I am watching.   

I basically do political work, but if there is something breaking and nothing on the net has it yet... I go for it.  Sometimes it will produce several thousand hits. 

Well thanks for taking the time to get the shot.  I could find a photo and you getting the shot gives NP that edge we are looking for.  To have hundreds of thousands news folks like yourself with a camera, cell phone, recorder, or video recorder.  One of the neat things hear, that is underused, is a way to call in a breaking report from anywhere using your cell phone and they have technology that converts speech to text and posts it under your name.  It uses you phone number as your identifier to your screen name. 

I really like NP and have been here since Late Dec 2007.  I post to my blogs at the same time I post here.  Thankfully my blogs take the code well.  I also have rss on my site from AP and Google news.

Again, thanks for making the story, That photo meant a lot.  So really the success of the story was your photo as there was nothing on the net.  Some folks mistaked the Inez school in KY as the name was the same.