Maybe the most soul-crushing moment in the career of anyone who works in local TV news comes when he or she suddenly realizes that nothing is ever going to change. It's that pitch-black epiphany, the one that finally hammers home the ugly truth that no matter where you go -- ...read more
There are a couple of jobs in TV news that give a person autonomy, which means that no matter how much oversight he or she may have, in the end that person has a direct line to what goes out over the air. If a news anchor wanted to, he or she could say, "Fuck it, I quit" on the ...read more