CBS Studio: Blue Wave News' Idol and Neirad's Dream
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The Neirad team and the Blue Wave News crew spent the day in the city and visited perhaps our dream's utopia: the CBS News headquarters. Our eager journalists crowded around Scott Pelley, a correspondent for "60 Minutes," as he gave us the grand tour.
CBS Studio - A Place where Neirad and Blue Wave News Comes Together
CBS: The Technology Behind the Masterpiece
Though this news set looks faintly reminiscent of the movie "Star Wars," we promise it's really the control room in the CBS studios. This confined little room is where great television happens. If you look closely at the small screen you can see the image of the CBS Evening News desk where Katie Couric anchors the news each weeknight at 6:30pm. Our tour guide explained that this facility is actually outdated and they are in the process of building a new one. To Neirad and Blue Wave News, the room was filled with gems of technology. Blue Wave News's anchorman Andrew Kirkman stared longingly into the small screens. It would take a pretty big bake sale to get this swank set-up for our school.
Future Anchors-Isabel Castro and Mitch Blummer
Though we don't mean to brag we did see quite a few stars...One being the back of Katie Couric's head.
Scott Pelley-The Idolized Journalist
Mr. Pelley showed us a behind-the-scenes look into CBS News and took us to one of his own ""60 Minutes"" exclusive shootings. There, he ran to and from changing his ties and reading lines with a "blue screen" always behind him. At the end of the day, after tangling through wires and watching edits, Mr. Pelley took us to a conference room and simply talked to us about his amazing profession. To us, Mr Pelley's job sounded like a daily adventure. He spoke about future travel plans to cover issues in Pakistan, Mozambique, and China this summer. He even described a future trip to Indonesia to film a scuba diving exhibition. "This is the best job in the world," he said with a big smile. Our future journalists looked up with awe.
