When Not to Have Reporter Involvement

If you are putting a piece together and you want to use the reporter asking a question along with the answer, you may want to skip it altogether if the photog adjusts the shot RIGHT AFTER the question is asked. And not a smooth push, but a quick zoom, whoops- too close, and widens out a touch. Seem obvious to edit this out? I thought so, till I saw this done in a top 20 market. Is it laziness or did someone think it was cool and raw? I have no idea. It looked terrible and sloppy.