Oregon Media Insiders

Each day there are programs on TV. It is called the news. It is in the morning at noon and in the evening. They have to do 30 minutes of news at noon. They have to have news at 5 and 11 so they can repeat it in the morning.

The problem is there is not that much real interesting news most days. But you still have to do your shows. So you get stupid stories like the credit union robbery that will not make a blurb in the metro section the next day. Bank robbery, wow, we only have about 150 of those a year, lets get on that.

If you work in the television news biz, you understand that many days your shift involves producing and being involved in stupid stories that will be forgotten before the next commercial. The big stories were already covered by the Oregonian, but our viewers are too stupid or preoccupied with Wheel of Fortune to READ, so they depend on us to
give them what they need in single servings of a minute or a buck fifty of news.

It is just the business, the last time you were involved in journalism you were a senior in college. You get a paycheck, if you have been in the game more than a couple years you know its a joke.
You do a good job, you crank out the stories, you do live shots about rain in oregon, you are A PROFESSIONAL!!!!