Moyers's people had swarmed over the Indiana University campus in successive
waves of producers, executive producers, directors and associate directors;
of lighting people, camera people, sound people and questions - from - the -
audience people; had added a participant (Nicholas von Hoffman) to be sure the affair would be telegenic; had phoned the panelists before the event with their own list
of topics and ideas; had thrown together a wooden platform just for their cameras, which cameras prevented many in the actual
audience from seeing the panelists; had shifted the meeting rooms to meet the exacting requirements for the paraphernalia
of television; had fed questions to
members of the
audience, and instructions «from the truck» to the moderator («move on»); and then had fashioned from 12 hours
of tape one hour that might have been made in a New York city hotel room.
A spokeswoman for Family Planning Advocates in a pink button - down shirt encouraged
audience members seated toward the back
of the gymnasium where the rally was held to
wave their signs with more vigor during the emotional high points
of Cuomo's speech.
Audience members who have been trained to expect the «bigger is better» mentality
of modern disaster movies might be constantly expecting something more — a second
wave, maybe, or, perhaps, a rockslide coming from another mountain in the area.