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I hate post-mortems! |
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NDs are often clueless |
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06/09/2005 |
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I remember when I finished up a 6pm newscast in a previous producing gig. We had at least *TWO* exclusive stories in that newscast, and when I go into the ND's office, what's the first thing he says?
"Get those anchors off the set!"
He's having a coronary because the other station in town (the one we're beating the pants off of, by the way) is going "out of the box" (I *HATE, HATE, HATE* that term!) and he suddenly thinks everybody here needs to be doing it, too... just letting the lame competition dictate how we do things.
The problem is for all the ND's who come from the producer ranks, a lot of them forget about how hard the job is. One way you can deflect that is to keep book...
Another producer at my previous gig did a morning show and was getting criticism about why this and that weren't that and this. But, he kept secret discrep sheets about other people. So when he was called on the carpet, he had a stack of paper to dump on the desk! Now this isn't very kind to people you work with, but it does help to get things on paper.
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as to what goes on behind the scenes. Post Mortems suck and they're real morale killers. Iknow it's the same situation here at my station. When we pull off an amazing breaker, the ND is worrying about why there's no banner super, just a live bug...
NDs, listen up, pull your heads out of your asses and start recognizing the good people you have working in the newsroom. Give credit where credit is due.
I think it's generally a sadistic way to get a hard-on for NDs to pick on the producers for minor things. Instead of "good job getting that breaker on the air," you get "yes, that breaker...how come you didn't run the VO?"
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