Dave Debo

WNY news nerd. I write news and read it on the radio in Rochester (WHAM) and sometimes Syracuse.
My opinions, my typos. Anchovies & dark beer but no olives.

[Dave Debo @Debonews]

Seldom heard lyrics, Awesome performance. (Enjoy that final chord!!)
Happy Independence Day.

https://t.co/NX0iiV29B6

[Dave Debo @Debonews]

@DarrenJMeenan Either Breaking Bad or The Sopranos are the best TV show ever. Until I rewatch and think its the other one.

[Dave Debo @Debonews]

@WHAM1180 More from Linda Nordquist:

[Todd Hallidy @ToddHallidy]

There are 338,000 registered Democrats in New York's 13th congressional district. 66,000 voted in the 3-way primary. The Mamdani-endorsed candidate won with 32,000 votes and is a shoo-in for the general election. 272,000 eligible voters stayed home. Primaries are the problem.

[Dave Debo @Debonews]

I AM a cemetery nerd!

[NewsRadio WHAM 1180 @WHAM1180]

Last week's windstorm knocked over a very large old Norway Maple Tree at Mt. Hope Cemetery and revealed a 1918 headstone that had been engulfed by the tree. Friends of Mount Hope provided these photos and say the tree will be removed, the stone saved.

[Dave Debo @Debonews]

@ProfMJCleveland Sopranos

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

I am really looking forward to seeing what Byron Allen does with Sixty Minutes

[Dave Debo @Debonews]

@BobLonsberry Ummm.. Rob whatshisname ( dont know if he was Millie or Vanilli) died in 1998. .

[Dave Debo @Debonews]

@news4buffalo Not just any fire, but a structure fire.

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@Cfrost716 @Matt_Bove The blasphemy and his loss of God was kinda the point

[Dave Debo @Debonews]

@Matt_Bove Love the series. Binge it again every few years
BUT
Didn't like this episode. His rant in the cathedral was justified.. but too melodramatic for me

[Dave Debo @Debonews]

@johnstemnpinnpr @TryApplyNow_Job Yeah but they did hire a great news director 😉
(( Only to demote and get rid of him at age 61, I might add))
I feel ya, brother.

[Dave Debo @Debonews]

Someone went over High Falls and lived, according to the Coast Guard. Here's video of their rescue

[Bob Lonsberry @BobLonsberry]

This video shows the Coast Guard helicopter rescue of a man who was swept over the 96-feet high Upper Falls in Rochester NY and washed up on an island below the falls. The video is provided anonymously by someone who wanted it to be seen. God bless this man, the @USCG and the Rochester police and fire departments.

[Winger 💙🇺🇸 @winger58]

Pea-size #hail in Victor, NY as front moves thru with a lot of thunder.
#weather

[Inside Politics @InsidePolitics]

Remembering Ted Turner with two CNN legends: Frank Sesno and Judy Woodruff.

[Paula's Donuts @PaulasDonuts]

#maythe4thbewithyou

[Dave Debo @Debonews]

@ToddHallidy Maybe people are just trying to be more colourful?

[Dave Debo @Debonews]

🔔🔔🔔🔔After a decade at NPR’s “All Things Considered”, Ari Shapiro stepped away last August. Now he is joining CNN, where he will reunite with longtime NPR colleague and friend, Audie Cornish, as the two produce a new video podcast 😍

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

All the President’s Men turns 50 today.

This famous “six‑minute shot” is a masterclass in phone acting and pure technical nerve.

Director Alan J. Pakula and cinematographer Gordon Willis pull off a single, unbroken slow zoom: from a wide, humming newsroom to a tight close-up on Redford. No cuts. No safety net. Tension builds in real time.

Redford carries it with typical quiet confidence. Six minutes of note-taking and talking into a phone, no flashy “Oscar clip.” He even flubs a name (“McGregor” for “Dahlberg”), corrects himself naturally, and Pakula keeps it because it feels authentic.

The background is part of the story. As Woodward hones in on his phone call, everyone behind him huddles around a TV watching Senator Tom Eagleton resign. The contrast is deliberate: they chase the “obvious” headline, while the camera drifts past them to Woodward, and the real story.

To hold Redford and the busy background in focus early on, they used a split‑diopter lens, then had to ease it out as the camera moves in. A technical tightrope. The timing of both actor and cinematographer is spot on.

As Woodward closes in on the truth, the world literally falls away: the newsroom blurs, the noise fades, and we lock into his obsession. It’s one of cinema’s great moments: Redford doing almost nothing—and somehow everything at the same time.

What makes this shot brilliant is the contrast it carves between Redford and the newsroom around him. The visual language does the talking: he’s locked in, disciplined, driven, all focus and fire. He stands apart because the work matters more than anything else.