I'm currently on an unexpected double shift -- as I've been here since 2:45 yesterday afternoon, and am not leaving the station unitl 8 AM.. After so many hours, the thought process is fueled by caffeine, bummed cigarettes, and pure hate ( Read more... )

From an afternoon meeting yesterday at 3 pm in the middle of a 5-11 double shift (producing both newscasts, came in at 9:30, left at 11:45 ( Read more... )

I got this phone call in the news room during the 6pm show on New Year's Day. The regular anchors were off ( Read more... )

There's something wrong with your place of employment when you lose three producers in the span of nine months. It's not supposed to work like that. I think I've fashioned this form of rant before about the way decent writers rotate out of here, never to set foot in a newsroom again, but I suppose it bears repeating. This isn't healthy for a ( Read more... )

Rarely does my work day allow for a day spent in the sun (and I am actually kind of thankful for this), but yesterday was an exception -- every so often, we do "road shows", which are live on location from somewhere, and yesterday was the first of two from the Mid-State Fair, which is about 35 miles or so north of here in Paso Robles ( Read more... )

Tina's friend died this week and she's going to the memorial service tomorrow ( Read more... )

My mother is particularly interested in asking about when I'm going to start looking for new employment. I always kind of shrugged it off because I hate moving, it's a task and I would rather not think about it ( Read more... )

Picks the weekend I go out both Friday and Saturday night for the boss to call me into work on Sunday morning to do the weekend shift ( Read more... )

I was bungling around and stumbled upon a post on Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban's blog that advocates the "convergence" or collaboration of print, internet, and broadcast TV news media:

Riddle me this Batman: Rupert Murdoch has figured out that Print and TV can be combined to be a vertical news organization and is willing to pay 5 billion ( Read more... )

Spend an hour writing a long note with things you'll remember about everyone that, despite intention as humor, will probably piss off a few people. This is what the latest producer to leave did, and while I thought it was funny (and I'm sure she did), some people didn't quite think so ( Read more... )