The Holiday Rush
On holidays, we don't root for a certain team to win or lose, we just want the game to last as long as possible.
Its one of the not-so-dark secrets of the news business: Ya don't get holidays off like other folks. For some reason there's still news to report!! Whodathunk it? This year we got lucky though and CBS carried the late Thanksgiving Day game so we had no 5, 6 or 7 pm news and for some of us that meant a day off. Yeah baby!!
But usually we work. The only relief? Football. See, sometimes there's just enough football so a newscast might be pre-empted...but nobody really knows for sure. That puts the writers and anchors in a weird place. How much work to do on a show that will likely never air...but a show ya might just really need if the game doesn't last long enough?
Its a thin line. So instead of worrying about it too much I just hope the guys just keep right on playing. Go Tigers...but take your time. Please. Nobody in a hurry. Just enjoying the holiday.
Dang! LSU just scored. No problem. Go Razorbacks!! Yeah! Just say it with me--Oh-Ver-Time! Oh-Ver-Time! Oh-Ver-Time! Yay!!
posted by Derek McGinty @ 5:34 PM
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hehehe
I can relate, I'm in one of those jobs where you have to work holidays and weekends. It's probably not as bad as News, Fire & Rescue, or Police work, but... more often than not we are open for business.
You've made me think about how things have changed. How we've become a 24/7 society. It used to be that Sunday was a sleepy day, Saturday just for entertainment, and the work week was just that... work.
I guess the police and fire departments were always on call, but the News would at least have had Sunday off. Maybe I'm wrong... It just seems we work more throughout the week than ever before, at least the last 40 years have seemed so.
What's a blue law anyways?
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