Another newscast, another error

Today's newscast was pretty successful. At the producer meeting with Professor Nicholson at the beginning of class, we had determined that today was a somewhat "slow news day." Nonetheless, we found stories that revolved around two specific areas: the Destiny USA green hotel and the upcoming holiday season. I borrowed sound from Noel to do a story on the Christmas tree that arrived today in Clinton Square. It was an interesting story only because I didn't know that Syracuse had its own tree-lighting ceremony much like Rockerfeller Center. I also wrote copy stories on the decrease of unemployed people in the United States and the President Bush's veto on the water resources bill that was overridden by Congress. It was interesting to learn this was the first time one of Bush's vetoes was overridden. He said he vetoed the bill because he felt it spent too much money on unnecessary projects.

Nonetheless, there didn't seem to be that much "secret" information that you wouldn't already know from our newscast. The one thing you might be curious about is that in the Christmas tree story, there is another bite underneath the one I chose to use. The reason you can hear it is because I forgot to clear the cart before I put the bite on it. The last time I was producer, I had made a typing error, and this time, I made a technical error. Despite all this, I do feel like I prepared the team well enough in advance. We were able to time out all the stories before they were read on-air, and I even caught some mistakes. For example, Tyler had forgotten to include "Good afternoon. I'm Tyler Condit" at the beginning of the newscast in the music and headlines. Thank goodness we caught that; otherwise, the listeners would never have known who the anchor was.

Overall, great job Team B! We came out on top!