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WGCL Atlana |
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Nancy don't stoop to this |
| Date Posted: |
05/22/2005 |
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PipeLine1, in your initial post about Nancy Nydam, you lifted a NewsBlues item, verbatim, and reprinted it here without attribution and under your name. Are you in news and, if so, is that how you do your job? This is what I wrote NewsBlues:
As someone who has known and worked with Nancy, what I know is this:
1) She quietly and with dignity left WHDH in Boston when she would not accept the Alice Jacobs approach to news...sex, lies, and sensationalism.
2) Nancy freelanced for 7 months for NBC and KNTV in San Francisco - San Jose, and turned down a job there so she could return to the East Coast to be closer to family and friends.
3) She worked at WMAR in Baltimore for Staci Feger Childers and when Staci left, Nancy turned down the news director's job when they offered it to her.
4) Nancy saved WGCL/Atlanta from itself for two years. Knowing what she did and did not want for herself, she turned down the news director's job there at least two times. Her talents are in running the newsroom day to day, she's not interested in living her life in meetings and dealing with other "news director" nonsense.
5) Nancy was the only hope for that sinking ship in Atlanta...and kept people calm and reassured for two years as the place crashed and burned around them everyday.
6) As for "daily fireworks and bruised egos" with Rick Erbach, that would mean Erbach is ever in the newsroom and has half a clue about what is going on there and knows anything about getting a newscast on the air. If he is not upstairs sucking up to Andy Alford, he's behind closed doors on the phone telling some poor soul how smart he is and filling their heads with crap about how he is going to "hire up" and make WGCL a first rate, top-10 television station.
7) As it was in Boston, so it was in Atlanta. Nancy quietly and with dignity walked out of the newsroom at WGCL after negotiating with Meredith about her exit; Corporate did not want her to leave. She was surrounded by staffers devastated by the news she was leaving and not coming back.
8) Nancy may be brusque, she is blunt, she is sometimes painfully honest...she would be the first to describe herself that way. But she is fair, and she is smart, and she cares about people more than a rating or share point on some printout in the morning.
NewsBlues started out as a way for the grunts-- the photogs and reporters and producers and others who get the job done --to vent about idiot supervisors and managers and executives. Nancy is someone who tells the idiots to their faces what she thinks, just as she tells the hard workers what great jobs they're doing, encouraging them and being a mentor to younger staffers. Think "Lou Grant." I wish all news managers were as honest and had half of her integrity.
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There are so many "nancy-isms" in this post I don't know where to begin. Don't bother arguing this point, you won't persuade me otherwise--that posting about Nancy was written by Nancy. You don't need to stoop to that Nancy--yes you're great--but spend this time working on yourself and your issues so the next job that comes around you'll be more pleasant to work with.
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