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KRON 4 |
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ARE YOU NUTS?!?!?!?!?! |
| Date Posted: |
05/10/2005 |
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I think management made it pretty clear... if this isn't what you signed up for, then there's no dishonor in leaving...
Of course it's always easier to bellyache on Vault...
Personally, I think it's a pretty exciting time at KRON. There's the real chance to do television differently. Again as one of the managers put it yesterday, it depends on how you define "quality". If you mean doing "clean", perfect television, then this won't be it. If you mean the opportunity to deploy 30 crews across the bay area, if you mean the chance to showcase real people, real communities, real stories other than the grind of the same five stories, if you mean recognizing that your career path will be different than that of people in this industry 30 years ago and you had better damn well adapt, I think this has a chance to be quality television.
Either way, it will be fun to try something new, won't it?
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If you honestly think this is such a revolutionary road KRON is walking down your F***ING nuts!!!! This is all about money and the eventual sale of KRON. This has nothing to do with managment wanting to be the "first major market station to put this into effect" this has FOR SALE written all over this. Yes I believe "one man band" is probably the wave of the future....but ask yourself one question....if KRON was still network affiliated do you think they would do this?...HELL NO!! If you honestly believe this will improve ratings and bring in more cash you are on the crackpipe. Can't you see through the sokescreen...this is absolutly the only way KRON has any chance of staying afloat. Just wait when they start allowing anyone to be in front of the camera viewers will know and turn to another station with seasoned journalists. You need to open your eyes and write back when your working along side college grads with maybe one year under their belts....then we'll talk about how exciting this is. This is not exciting, this is sad and absolutely desperate. I might believe management a little bit more if we had the ratings, the money and they network affiliation and yet the powers that be thought this is a new, innovative approach to news that might actually serve the viewers better. Unfortunately this is a last ditch effort to keep the doors open...that's it no more, no less. Open you eyes....JACKASS!!!
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