Oregon Media Insiders

General Managers are like streetcars - they come and they go. All you have to know about new GMs versus old GMs was summed up in one line in the song, "We Won't Be Fooled Again," by the Who when Roger Daltrey sang: Meet the new boss...same as the old boss.

Take a piece of advice from someone who's been there. The broadcast business is a fading entity. Get out and start another career as quickly as you're able to. Local television is in the worst shape of all.

I'm serious. If you don't get out early on, you'll be trapped in a pattern that won't allow you to do much of anything else. This happened to me and now, in the twilight of my career, I have finally understood that Hunter Thompson was absolutely spot on when he said:

"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason."