Who's Your Daddy???

Sorry couldn't resist. So the Yankees head to Fenway 2-0 in the ACLS. The 2 pitchers I was worries about we beat but we still do not have anyone to go out there for games 3 and 4!!! This just might go the full 7, never mind they need to win 4 of 5, they could do it!!

Another speedy week, it is already Thursday. Working in TV sometimes blurs your sense of time. I sit in a little room with no windows and do the samething over and over and over again. No meetings, no conference calls, no "The Johnson report is due on Wednesday!" Just news and weather, and mostly the same news. We take stories and replay them to death, then break off from them addition stories covering related issues until it's 5 days later and you are still covering. Plus anything that occurs Friday after 7pm is rehashed and gone indepth with on Monday.

An example: We had an officer shot 2 weeks ago. Two days of coverage of the officer, then the funeral, the memorial fund, the suspect, police training: is it enough, weapons on college campuses, security at said college, mental illness of suspect, gun laws, mental illness vs gun laws, health providers and mental illness (suspect tried to get help previously) and eventually trial and verdict. Each issue there was a story that got usually a live shot and package or live interview, then vo and sot at the next newscast, rebroadcast of either package or vo/sot on the morning show then follow up package or reporter on set at the 5pm newscast. By then end of the week I have heard the story about 10 times and have already forgotten if it started on Monday or Wednesday or over the weekend.

We also usually tune out the news. You see too much shit and it drives you crazy. It also drives the family nuts when they ask about what happened today or what the weather will be like tomorrow. To be honest I stop listening after we start weather because I have stuff that needs setting up, or scripts that need marking or direction to give to the crew. What bothers me is we will always do that story that is different, odd or has great video and that sticks in our mind because it is out of the ordinary and stands out for us from the usual politics, crime, feelgood story, accident, tragedy.

Me: "Man did you see that Hot Air balloon stuck on that 600 foot tower??"
Them: "No, is it going to rain tomorrow??"
Me: "Pass the salt please, thanks"