Makes sense. I've known excellent print reporters who could handle absolutely any story you threw at them, and who, when the idea of a promotion to editor was floated, said "hell no." (I've never been totally clear on how much of the anchor's job is strictly presentation and how much is the behind-the-scenes work of shaping the newscast, so I don't know good that analogy is.)
That was Broadcast News. Albert Brooks played the reporter, William Hurt was the talented, pretty boy who was willing to bend ethics to (and past) the breaking point to get ahead. As far as how much of the work anchors do to shape a newscast, from my rather limited TV experience, it varies. Sometimes the anchor is the News Director or holds another high position such as managing editor or executive producer. At some places, I'm willing to bet that Ted Baxter of the Mary Tyler Moore Show is a good example of the later, especially since he was at least partially modeled on legendary air-headed Los Angeles TV anchor Jerry Dunphy (look up the guy's picture). On the other hand, when I moved to Tampa in the late 70s Channel 13 was the CBS affiliate it had a 50 share in a three newscast market. It was run with an iron fist by a guy named Hugh Smith, who legend had it, enjoyed physically evicting consultants from his newsroom. Eventually he fell from grace when he got caught in a police prostitution sting. The station billed itself as "The Big 13". Reportedly his pitch to the police decoy was "Hey baby, wanna see my big thirteen?" He spent the rest of his career anchoring radio newscasts after living down his guilty plea...he was a newsroom tyrant, but one hell of a newsman.
FTFY If you ignore the fashion, hairstyles, and technology, the storyline of Broadcast News still holds up very well nearly 40 years later. I've sworn that if I ever get laid off and someone says "Now if there's anything I can do for you..." I'm gonna reply like the guy in the movie: "Well, I certainly hope you die soon."
The scene where Joan Cusack runs into the filing cabinet has got to rank up there with one of the scenes in cinema most likely to get the entire audience to go, "Ooof!"
I have a voice made for newspaper. I like my face just fine, I just don't care to look at it outside of shaving.
Getting a particular desired reaction out of WF is like herding cats, especially when it's a callout thread
Nearly anyone who edited tape back in the day has made a version of that run multiple times. Every place I've worked, the tape playback machines were always far away from the newsroom and edit suites. At my last station, the path from the newsroom to the playback room was a pretty straight shot, except for a dogleg where you had to turn left before immediately turning right to enter the room where the machines were. One night the newscast editor was running too fast with a tape and plowed straight into the wall where the dogleg began. He and the tape went sprawling but still got the story to the back in time to hit its slot in the rundown. We used to keep big tape dispensers in the edit suites loaded with white vinyl tape for labeling stories on the tape spines. Before the newscast was over, one of the other photographers had used it to put something like this on the wall where the crash occurred.
Good news, @Steal Your Face: Your most recent stream showed up on my YT's front page. I've queued it up in a separate tab for after I get back home from this errand I need to run.
While the algo's are a big box of mystery, I would suggest adding thumbnails for the videos, them all having the same generic icon as the preview image probably doesn't help.
They make it pretty easy, just open up YouTube Studio, go into your content, and you can edit individual videos details including uploading new thumbnails.
This may help. If that doesn't do it, just enter "how to make a youtube thumbnail" in their search bar and you'll get plenty of others.
He'll be making pictures of himself angrily sneering at female characters with enlarged crying eyes and bucked teeth in no time.
Do you have a list of major points you want to talk or rant about when you sit down or are you just going off the top of your head?
Don't take a shot every time he says "woke," "Kurtzman" or "canon." You'll die of alcohol poisoning in five minutes.
I have a list of plot points so I can describe the episode, the rest is off the cuff.For example, I talked about Interstellar, that was not planned.
