“It’s 5pm! I’ll go hit a bus load of nuns, if I have too.” Mr Cooper waves his fist in the air. “We have 45 minutes to find something in that Damn copter for the 6 o’clock lead!”
“Sir,the police scanner is quiet except for a puppy rescue.” William Dare looks at his boss like this is below the award winning investigative reporter.
“You’ll be doing Public Service Announcements if we get scooped on this story, Billy Boy!” Mr Cooper looks through his soul. “We made up accidents in my day! Stock footage and hand edited too! You’re all soft. The news is a work of art! Precious opera of life! I’d give my right arm for another round of it!”
“This is Willam Dare.” He interfaces himself to the firemen.
“You’re an idiot! You chased the dog back in the sewer with that helicopter!” Eric looks over him and his cameraman.
Behind them Channel 10 films the whole conversation. They weren’t scoped, just the lead story instead.
Written as part of a challenge called Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, details are available at https://flashfictionforaspiringwriters.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/fffaw-challenge-week-of-august-30-2016/
Coloring Outside the Lines 
the lengths they go to get a story….very different take on the prompt than otehrs i have read…interestingly good!
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Thank you very much. I really wanted to find a different use for a helicopter.
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I bet the fireman said something worse when the sound was cut off.
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They would be aware of cameras.but if they knew they could get away with it. Yeah, much worse
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I like how you show his arrogance, twisted sense of morals, and overabundance of charisma has led to this. Craziness! Great job with the dialogue and details!
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There’s a subtly to karma that hits like a brick and sounds like a whisper. 😀 many thanks
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Ooh, that’s a catchy phrase. I’m going to remember that one (or at least try really hard to) ^_^ lol
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I plan to use it some place. It has great visual to it. Feel free to use it if you have a chance. 😀
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If I ever do, I won’t claim it as my own. I’ll refer back to you
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Nice one. Like the idea of the news crew interfering and ruining the story they could have had.
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It’s the nature of the beast. They rush to undercut each other and somehow never become the story. I figured it was about time to have fun with them. Thank you very much! 😀
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Commendable ! Great writing skills and your story too 😃
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This is an idea in a hundred words. Conversation to move a piece. I love the spin of making the serious look stupid. Thank you darling
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That is the amazing talent !
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Repetition is the key to conversation. We talk in bits and pieces. Don’t think of how you talk to a friend but how others to others. We are brief but usually trying to convey a feeling over information. I actually did a WordPress class that had a story in nothing but conversation. So you had to have characters set the scene and develop it without your descriptions
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😃
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Wonderful twist on this one Mark. Have to watch what you say if you’re being filmed.
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A live camera or open microphone are always trouble. I Figure investigative reports have a lot of karma waiting around a dark corner for them
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You’re probably right!
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The few times I was around any kind of recording you would be surprised what gets caught by a camera or microphone.
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OH no, their secrets will be for the whole world to see! They needed a good story and became that story for another News Channel! Great story, Mark!
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I was out of ideas for the prompt. The whole life flight thing already done. I could have gone old TV show and had the story about frozen turkeys thrown out of helicopter as a giveaway
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Hahahaha! That would have been a funny story – throwing frozen turkeys out of a helicopter!
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