This morning I was on the t.v. again, this time with the super smart Sweet Melissa, who could teach me a thing or two about how to act in front of the camera. If you watch the video above, notice when they cut to the two-shot of us how she is leaned forward on her forearms in a very serious, woman-to-watch-for way while I lean back with the goofy grin on my face. She looks so self-assured. I should smile less.
There were less uh’s and um’s this time, so cheers to that. And thanks to Melissa for getting up so early on a weekend to come in for the show. She was my first choice for the blogger segment, which may become a regular thing*
*I need to find out how often I can appear on the air before I am considered “talent” and have to pay $1500 in dues, I was told today. I’d NOT like to get surprised with that sort of bill, so thank you very much, Mr. Producer, for the heads up.
Although, I always hate to see any one lose their job and I appreciate the work that Adam did here at WKRN. I have to say that if his departure saves the job of just one employee that actually does tv work then it was worth it to me. This is a tv station not a blog station. I saw a lot of tv employees lose their jobs while Internet people remained. Before Adam was let go we had 3 Internet people and only 4 directors. For a TV station that is just not smart. Blogs are a luxury for a tv station not a necessity and this station can’t afford any luxuries.
While I can totally see why this employee would feel this way, it is evident that they are completely unaware of how the internet is changing their profession in radical ways that cannot be ignored. People with this mentality will either catch on or get swept away in the new media tide.
Amy Sedaris on David Letterman. They crack each other up, which makes me laugh and laugh. She’s on all the time, just because. She’s on right now, and not even promoting anything. She just said she wanted to get a monkey, so she got an imaginary one first so she would know what she was getting into.
Only at my house is this regular Friday night viewing, but it is because you get to hear the panelists talking about Giuliani’s “spectacular flame-out.” I’ve never heard the term “flame-out” spoken aloud, much less by a political commentator on PBS. Epic lulz.
Mitt Romney is super scary. I mean, he makes Hillary Clinton seem almost human. I saw some clips of him on last night’s newscast and I got the fear. If that is not a robot under malleable synthetic flesh and hair, then I’m Vicki from “Small Wonder.” Forget the fact that this fucker strapped his dog to the roof his car for the length of several states. Forget the fact that he flips positions more than Jenna Jameson. This guy is creepy right on the surface. After just a few seconds of his answer about his favorite book (”I’d have to go with something like ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’.”), I changed the channel and threw the remote across the room in horror.
Tonight I was flipping channels when I ran across a PBS station that showed a man underwater collecting sea urchins. I stopped to watch, but this guy’s annoying voice took me aback.
Me: “I can’t stand that guy’s voice.”
Lisey: “Have you ever seen this guy before?”
Me: “No, what is this?”
Lisey: “That is Huell Howser. He goes all over California doing travel stuff like that, he’s been on t.v. here forever. I think he’s from Tennessee.”
Howser became the subject of controversy in the summer of 1979 when he did a story about how the former Tennessee Governor’s Mansion was slated for demolition to make way for a Popeye’s Fried Chicken outlet. He ignored management’s orders to not mention the story on-air. His defiance led to a thirty-day suspension, but before the suspension was over, Howser had secured new employment. He has often since stated that he might still be “looking for more pet pigs around Nashville”[citation needed] if this incident had never occurred.
Same market competitors KRON, the Young Broadcasting-owned station, to be sold. The station has been in turmoil after having lost its affiliation with NBC (they show Dr. Phil reruns at 8 p.m.) and a move to the VJ model had little effect on the bottom line. I’ll be very interested to see who snaps up the struggling station in the days and weeks to come.
