Panda reporters lose sleep, get story, photos
Submitted on November 29, 2005 - 1:00am.
B. Blair Dedrick - Fall 2005
WASHINGTON - More than 100 reporters, photographers and videographers shared the same fear: that panda cub Tai Shan would be asleep at his media debut Tuesday.
Reporter Michael Zitz Beckham and photographer Suzanne Carr were up at 3 a.m. to make it to the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoo for the 7 a.m. press conference and cub viewing. The two work for The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., about an hour south of the capital.
“We said we were going to bring a BB gun and shoot him in the butt if he wasn't awake,” Beckham joked. “I only got 30 minutes of sleep last night.”
Reporter Michael Zitz Beckham and photographer Suzanne Carr were up at 3 a.m. to make it to the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoo for the 7 a.m. press conference and cub viewing. The two work for The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., about an hour south of the capital.
“We said we were going to bring a BB gun and shoot him in the butt if he wasn't awake,” Beckham joked. “I only got 30 minutes of sleep last night.”
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