Photographers,TVnews:why rolling buses so oft block the picture?

One in four tv news shots of a street scene in front of the real story, say a broken storewindow, will have a bus roll in front of the store window.... blocking what you want to see for long seconds.

Surely they can get the full ten seconds of the store shot, between busses.

Are photogs just stupid, as they seem to be? Their editors too?

Another moronic practice.. half second shots of different scenes, too fast to figure what is in the shot. Why?

Another: super closeups of something, so you cant figure what it is, or how big it is, or where in the whole crime scene it is.

Another :moron begins with closeup and pans back slowly. If they had begun with wide view and slowly gone close in, you would know the general scene and could fit the closeup into it. but beginning close, you are still puzzling over what it IS, while the camera rolls back.

the reason for the short shots is low attention span. if someone is going to flip through a channel and base their decision whether to stay or keep flipping on say...3 seconds...the more different things that they see in those three seconds, the higher the odds that they'll see somethign that catches their eye.

as far as the bus thing, not sure...it would make sense that they could get 10 seconds with no bus.

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