Rio Olympics - Hiroki Ogita The Pole Vaulter

Rio Olympics - Hiroki Ogita The Pole Vaulter

Hiroki Ogita pole vaulter has made the news today in all broadsheets. The faux camera angle has captured the image which became the feed for all broadsheets. Tv channels have gained the popularity for the silly mistake of this camera.

We have traveled from pinhole to megapixel but the man behind the camera remains the same.  As Jean Luc Godard once said, “we have not invented any new technology; we just find the old ways to deal with development’.  Today with multi camera setup of Olympics and online edit offers a choice. The camera man would have changed the angle or he would have conveyed it to his online editor. The online editor must have minimum four assistants and they all have overlooked it. The online editor took this footage and the online director did not bother the after effects of the image. The producer of the show took the risk of his job.Soon the footage became viral and then the whole hell broke loose.  Today it is the most clicked video and many have earned the hits on their youtube channel. Some are making their future through this unfortunate incident.

Among the most respected news channel BBC has used the headline “Olympic pole vault penis claim denied by Japan athlete Hiroki Ogita”. The Sun has aptly put his comment, “'I'M DEVASTATED' Rio Olympics 2016: Pole vaulter Hiroki Ogita speaks of his ‘devastation’ after missing out on a medal but denies his penis cost him”. It made a sense to me.

The New York Post put the headline, “Penis crushes pole vaulter’s Olympic dream” in a funniest manner. I read it as an interesting or eye-catching headline. The news written is in pyramid lead. The Brits have funny bone, The Huffington Post has used the headline, “Rio Olympics Pole Vaulter Hiroki Ogita Denies His Penis Put Him Out The Games”.

The http://www.weirdasianews.com/ site has used headline which involves the male into it, “Male Pole Vaulter’s Penis Costs Him Olympic Gold”. It sound it too gender bias. A news portal, thewrap.com used his confession as news feed, “Japanese Pole Vaulter Denies His Penis Ended His Olympic Run”.

Wally Mason Sport Editor of ‘The Australian’ has written a jaw dropping the headline, “Rio Olympics: Crowds gasp at close shaves but no diver is going to pike”.

Dailymail the UK daily has used this incidence to tickle the funny bone; they used the long headline, “The only time a man wishes he had a SMALLER penis! Japanese pole vaulter’s Olympic dream crushed because his own manhood knocks the bar off” it is the rarest to rare time to use this kind of headline; they have supported this headline with 3 subhead lines.

1.      Japanese pole vaulter Hiroki Ogita suffered agonising end to Olympics

2.      The 28-year-old athlete's own penis knocked the bar off during his jump

3.      He was trying to clear a height of 5.3m in qualifiers when disaster struck

The Indian Express has used the headline, “Japan pole vaulter Hiroki Ogita’s penis denies him a pace in final”. Which is a summary headline but still it does not sound good. The Asian Age has used the headline, “Pole vaulter knocked over by his manhood or the camera angle?” This broadsheet is perhaps the best in Indian and it goes to Europe as well.

Today we have seen the various types of headlines and it is one of its kind incident and editors get to use their craft to showcase the talent. I do not like the western media the way they have focused the manhood. There is no wisdom to cover the camera faux for your gain.Today anybody and everybody is a photographer but I remember the lines uttered by American Photographer Alfred Stieglitz, “In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” Stieglitz is internationally recognized as being a pioneer of modern photography.

The drone camera or helix-camera can offer the exclusive angle but cannot alter the meaning of photograph. Camera handling is an art and not mere mechanical process. Today with the uber technology machines has left very less choice for humans to alter. One mistake and then the hell broke loose.