------------------ [excerpt from Camera Girl] ----------- "I knew I needed a new Inquiring Photographer - the kid who was doing it was a stringer who was quitting to go to law school," Waldrop recalled.
The problem was that nobody wanted the job. "We used to joke about being in the dog house when we were assigned to the Inquiring Photographer spot," recalled one reporter. "They preferred to sit in a bar someplace rather than snap mugshots of people standing on street corners answering stupid questions.
Nobody could fathom anyone wanting the job and agreeing not only to pose the questions but take the pictures." In fact, the "Inquiring Photographer" never carried a byline, because the columnists were always rotating; nobody did it regularly enough to make it their own.
"I'll tell you what we'll do" Waldrop told Jackie. "You can try out for this thing." He told her to keep going out with the stringer but ask her own question once a week and submit the responses on a trial basis.
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