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BAD DECISIONS |
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The news biz |
| Date Posted: |
05/15/2005 |
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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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is really no different than any other biz. It's business, bottom-line counts, and managers try any way they can to achieve the required result.
So in this biz, they're called "news director;" in the insurance biz, they're called "agency managers." And so on in other biz, get the picture??
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