Something... and Half of Something

It's sooo obvious when the interns are running the booth, usually on Sunday night, 'cause the real employees don't want to work.

I'm not surprised that they can't even make a simple report without screwing it up. As part of a search party trying to locate a missing co-worker who had capsized his boat we all combed the location given by the news and local authorities, only to find that he had capsized 22 miles up river, after 3 weeks, no body was ever recovered. As for Rodney, keep him briefly on a short leash just off the floor.

We could duct tape him, and treat him like a hamster ...

"Ya can't fix stupid."

It really was awful. I s'pose my instinctive *Laugh* was awful too....

OMG - I thought it was a joke at first. That's beyond awful........So wanna bet they lost some sponsors over that? At least I hope so.

hi linda!!! i was going to leave this on facebook but thought it might be better here. it's something i wrote today. it got some interesting comments. blessings sistah!

http://blatheringsblog.com/?p=1158

kate stokes

I have been in control rooms and I have directed newscasts, although it has been a while. I have several scenarios that could have played out:
1) local stations are moving to automation. There is less production crew and everything is programmed into a computer, graphics and and tapes are rolled automatically. ... WITH HILARIOUS RESULTS!

2) A news director or producer was changing stories around during the newscast and graphics were no longer in the correct order.

3) There was hell breaking loose in the control room. As with any job you can fix one error without a problem, possible two errors at the same time, but when multiple problems happen it out of control and there is no saving it.

4) Or as a senior director once told me, if a problem can make it on air, it will make it on air.