living with the daily news

Working with broadcast news means that now the first thing I think about when I see breaking news is, fuck, how will this affect my workday? I start mentally tabulating all I'll have to do, what potential client requests might come up, the press conferences we will have to send to the wire.

It takes longer, after I've settled into organizing the work, that the real impact of the news hits me. It's not just a headline ( Discussion on the SC church massacre. )