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DATELINE NEW YORK--The results of a new national survey show that many videographers have trouble with their marriages. Survey expert George Canter says the trouble may be rooted in endemic personality traits of videographers. "They like to spend an enormous amount of time alone and feel comfortable with the fact that even their closest relations haven't the faintest understanding of what they do, or why. This personality profile holds a strong desire to communicate to the world--therefore the interest in the television medium--but nevertheless exhibits few communicative urges in day-to-day interactions.

"Finding a very high percentage of compulsive introverts among the ranks of videographers came as no surprise. It was the responses from the spouses of videographers that alarmed us.

"Here's the typical spousal profile. She encounters her spouse seldom, and even then only when he's placed a camera between them. She seldom hears his voice because he seldom speaks, but he often prods her to speak long soliloquies into a lens. She develops an increasing sense of isolation, alienation. She doesn't have the words to explain her plight to family, friends, minister or helping professional. Yet she supports her husband's video addiction as it seems his only means for self expression. She never has an unkind word for one of his tapes, no matter how bad …