Right place, right time, that’s what it’s all about. This was caught at King & Bathurst on my way to meet some friends at Spirit House coming from the Digital Dreams 2012 documentary media screening at a club in Liberty Village. I think it was called Money, or something terrible like that, ok, no wait, it was Cinema. From what I understand, the motorcyclist suffered some burns but was mostly ok. Cause of the burnout was undetermined, but it left an epic trail of fire across King St, creating a Ghostrider meets Back 2 The Future effect.
I really didn’t think anything to come of it, but CP24 retweeted my photos. Apparently the trick to getting mainstream media’s attention is to put BREAKING BREAKING in front of your tweets. Try it out sometime, you’ll be surprised. Anyway, apparently the CBC trolls CP24’s feeds, because they contacted me about the pix as well, which ended up in an all out network bidding war because I had video footage as well. CTV offered me an exclusive for an incredibly low rate, and then CBC upped the ante, telling me they didn’t care if I sold to the other network, as long as they got the footage as well.
I’m not all that surprised, I’ve experienced this kind of skullduggery first hand when City-TV outright scooped my Happy 7 rats story which had the restaurant shut down (and later reopen as King Lobster) after I submitted my pics to both BlogTO and Torontoist, claiming that THEY WERE THERE FIRST! and used the ratty shots in their sizzle reel. Of all the nerve….. (those pics, and the video, ended up being bought by the National Post and The Sun, so I’m not all that sore, but come onnnn, do you really have to outright rip off the little guy?)
Anyway, to make a long story, I renegged on the CTV exclusive and what you see here is what we got, prime time footage on CBC’s local 6 o’clock news. They say the CBC doesn’t pay, but this little adventure proved them wrong.
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