Oregon Media Insiders

Listen, slick, You are absolutly right, there are a number of folks on the talent end of things that do a lot of charitable work. I've had the pleasure to be involved in a number of those kinds of projects. Not long ago I produced a piece that aired on the CBC and Global networks in Canada and in fact a well known Portland voice talent did the VO. This person stepped up to the plate, no questions asked, no expectations that it was going to be good for thier station or thier perceived image in the public eye... they just did it. Did I mention it was an uncredited performance?

The piece was written up in the NY Times, I was happy to be interviewed to support the organization involved and I'm just a fuckin' production guy, one of the faceless just trying to do the right thing for some folks that need help with the skills I have. It's fair to say it had as much impact and touched as many if not more viewers than some anchor dance self-stroking package K2 aired. Guess what? Like the aforementioned talent, no credits or anticipation of acknowledgement was asked for, or frankly wanted.

If you want to tell how altruistic these folks are, maybe they can get on volunteermatch.org like I did, enlist some of thier f'in production folks, marketing types, webmasters, sister stations and free up some spot time and put something out that doesn't satisfy thier contactual expectations with regard to public service. You don't see much of that, do you? Believe me, there's plenty of need out there, but if it only happens when tape is rolling for air and sweeps are active, it's little more than limousine philanthropy.

Whooo... sorry to go off folks.

SCJ