Monday, December 8, 2008

F-18 crashes into home in University City

Super rad day at the newsroom! You can't be in a more intense situation than reporting a "breaking news" report. Today I was really tired and feeling over the whole internship. Basically I wanted this week to be over, I wanted this semester to be over. But there's no rush as my concience guides me. Still I've been waiting for this moment for a year now. It's super duper rediculus that San Marcos requires the 3 semester requirement of a forign language but at the same time it's a blessing in disguise.
Back on the subject of why the newsroom was so rad... there was intensity. This intensity was no joke, an F-18 crashed into a home today. One thing I noticed was the impact of the situation. The intensity of the story affects the news in terms of sponsors, commercials, and other airtime situations. But in order to make sponsors happy, the news channel has to find a time to squeeze in all commercials to make up for their lost time. Here's a slight dilemma, these commercials might be aired at times where viewers aren't glued to their TV. The noon for some reason is a good time or has the most viewers. I'm not going to assume that people watch the news during lunch all the time. Anyways, there were things that answered the questions I always had; Why cover the news that all the other channels will cover? Won't the ratings be the same? It's local news, why even try? The answers for these questions were answered in a direct and simple way. They could be anything from: ethics, passion of doing the news, satisfying sponsors and news fanatics(surprisingly there are people who watch the news like it's a television series).

Since today was breaking news day, stories had to be lively covered, anchors and reporters had to bring out their adlib skills at max level. It was great to see this change of pace. I honestly hate routines, but with a little change you can make or natural changes that are made it might not be so bad.

This is about the time to sign off. I'm doing this post at work and I hate my current part time job as well. It's just an expression, I'm a hater and a player. Peace.

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