State of My Union
A bit of a slow day (er, night) here in New Delhi.
In fact, the past two nights have been largely uneventful, which isn't necessarily a bad thing after nearly two weeks of hectic newswriting. Although Bush's State of the Union yesterday did provide me with my timeliest story yet: I had to watch the live feed of the beginning of his speech (which began just after 7:30 a.m. over here), pick a soundbite and write up a script for the 8:00 morning show. Of course, the president usually takes at least 10 minutes to walk in (managing to hug and kiss the likes of Joe Lieberman in the process), so I essentially had about 15 minutes to write and edit a VOSOT on one of the lead stories.
No problem.
Thankfully, Bush's chat was predictable: "Yay for elections in Iraq and the Palestinian territories. Yay for demonocracy around the world. Now, about this Social Security nonsense..."
The tricky part was that the 8:00 story needed to be different than my update for the 9:00 because of the issue of tenses. (He was still speaking for the 8:00 bulletin.) And I had to do another update for the 10:00 show with different graphics. All in all, I did four stories about the damn State of the Union basically saying the same thing.
The state of my union wasn't that great when I almost missed my ride home at 8:30.
In fact, the past two nights have been largely uneventful, which isn't necessarily a bad thing after nearly two weeks of hectic newswriting. Although Bush's State of the Union yesterday did provide me with my timeliest story yet: I had to watch the live feed of the beginning of his speech (which began just after 7:30 a.m. over here), pick a soundbite and write up a script for the 8:00 morning show. Of course, the president usually takes at least 10 minutes to walk in (managing to hug and kiss the likes of Joe Lieberman in the process), so I essentially had about 15 minutes to write and edit a VOSOT on one of the lead stories.
No problem.
Thankfully, Bush's chat was predictable: "Yay for elections in Iraq and the Palestinian territories. Yay for demonocracy around the world. Now, about this Social Security nonsense..."
The tricky part was that the 8:00 story needed to be different than my update for the 9:00 because of the issue of tenses. (He was still speaking for the 8:00 bulletin.) And I had to do another update for the 10:00 show with different graphics. All in all, I did four stories about the damn State of the Union basically saying the same thing.
The state of my union wasn't that great when I almost missed my ride home at 8:30.