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Atlanta assignment editor turned anchor |
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You guys.. |
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05/16/2005 |
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...to everyone I have worked with or who has worked for me (just ask 'em).
EVERYONE IN TV NEWS THINKS EVERYONE *ELSE* IN TV NEWS HAS "THE EASY JOB".
THE ONLY REALITY IS THAT THEY *ARE ALL HARD*
A REPORTER WHO THINKS AN ASSIGNMENT EDITOR"S JOB IS EASY/SECRETARIAL WORK HAS LIVED A SHELTERED LIFE. AN ASSIGNMENT EDITOR WHO THINKS THEY HAVE IT HARDER THAN EVERYONE ELSE, HASNT BEEN AROUND MUCH!
Quit yer bitchin and "mine is worse than yours" one-upsmanship.
A reporter who can run the desk? A DREAM! An assignment editor who can report? GREAT!
Anyway, none of this has anything to do with Art. You go, man |
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obviously work in a Newsroom that is producer driven rather than desk driven. In the Newsrooms I've worked in the producers rule and the desk is the scapegoat. Also, try pushing the angry News Director off to a reporter who should have had the story.. right. Why doesn't the News Director go right to that reporter then?? I'll tell you why, cause most reporters are spoonfed by the desk and the News Directors know it. Plus many News Directors won't lay into one of their so called "great" hires..it's easier to rip the desk in a dramatic moment and huff back to behind closed doors. And for those that just think answering phones while juggling breaking news and getting video on your live newscast, at the same time is all in a secretarys days work, well, thanks for helping me prove my point. I think Grant and myself were just trying to point out that the desk is the most under appreciated job out there and folks shouldn't be shocked when one of those bottom rungers of the Newsroom makes it to the "coveted" anchor/reporter slot. Let's just end this discussion by agreeing to disagree. Way to go Art.
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