The Road Not Traveled

In 2007 there were a lot of blogs written that never saw the light of day, and as I look back over them--mostly it was for good reason!!



Some just weren't particularly funny, like this lame effort to make fun of the President's annual pardon of the Thanksgiving turkey. Its so darn silly as a news event I've always thought there was a lot of comedic potential there.





Today we once again run the annual Thanksgiving story of the President pardoning a turkey. So is he having tofu in Crawford? I don't think so.

Turns out the picture was about the funniest thing about this idea. Then there was this bizarre entry:

The Doctor. The Black Doctor. The Mighty Black Doctor. It is a name that inspires fear, yet restraint. Respect, yet total human desire. Who is this man?

Take it from me, the less said about this the better.

Sometimes, the idea is decent but I just couldn't pull off the execution. Like the time I tried to explain how stories have a mind of their own and we go where the story takes us regardless of initial perceptions...blah blah blah..

This was supposed to be one of those 'fun' stories. The last thing I expected was an expose.It was caffienated soap, for Godsake! One of those novelty things that only deserves a story if the reporter can make it funny or at the very least "cute."

I didn't even post any pictures before I gave up on that one. I could go on. But even I'm getting bored. I'll leave you with a failed holiday blog which tried in vain to convey the struggle over getting holidays off work in a newsroom where the jobs must be done on December 25 just like any other day.

Here at WUSA, as we go through this special time of year and reflect on the true reason for the season, we are all reminded of one universal truth: Mess with my days off and I'll kill ya--except then I might have to work your shift.

I was trying to riff comically on the situation but everything I wrote just read like I was complaining. And nobody wants to read that.