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BAD DECISIONS |
| Message Name: |
BriteBlond & Truthteller |
| Date Posted: |
05/15/2005 |
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In my dealings with News Directors, it seems to me that the majority are just people who couldn't hack it as reporters and knew that they couldn't move on. I'm not putting that down, I'm just stating my opinion. Then, it seems those "reporters who couldn't hack it" somehow get hired on as News Directors and take an oath to live out the rest of their days making the lives miserable "through fear" for everyone they supervise. Unfortunately, that is just the way it is at some places. Fortunately, it isn't the case everywhere, so there is a small ripple of hope. Either way, what makes me feel better is knowing this simple fact: NOBODY gets in to this business with dreams of being a News Director. It is basically a backup position that people who can't cut it in other positions DREAM of getting. |
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Thanks for some things that I had not previously thought about.
The idea that no one (that I know of) becomes a news director by design had not occured to me.
Of those who were news directors in my shops, I can think of the various personalities. Some have been good and others, well, not the kind of people who should have been bosses of anything.
One of my bosses was a genuinley nice and caring. He also provided direction in a very positive way.
Another was distant; quiet and deceptively malevolent.
One was totally inept and well beyond his talent level. Few who knew him, left with a whit of respect for him.
And, then there was one guy who was a failed actor who would spontaneously go into old roles he had in the meeting of a news meeting, or do a Cliff Claven or otherwise make himself the foolish center of attention, ala, lampshade on his head. He was a bad actor, a bad manager and the spawn of Satan. But had I not met him, I wouldn't know how to recognize true evil.
Please know that I'm saying that in a postive way.
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