Synopsis:"Stringers" are freelance newshounds who listen to police scanners at all hours of the day and night then show up unannounced at the scene of a crime or accident to videotape it to sell their footage to local TV news stations. Usually odd outcasts, stringers have a love/hate relationship with "real" TV newspeople who usually view them as hangers-on and wannabes.
This movie, The Stringer, is a story about a stringer who intentionally causes tragedies to videotape so that an unwitting local TV news producer can finally achieve his equally disturbing goal of creating the "perfect" newscast.