Today Andy, the crime reporter, asked me to log his tapes. I thought he was being nice like Kria had the other day by giving me something to do. When I finished he actually read through them, asked me to cut some things and add others. I was surprised that he used the camera cuts I chose.
He had known mostly what he had wanted to use before asking me to log them, he wrote the stories while I was working.
I also talked to the people in charge of my internship about cutting my hours. Unfortunately this is costing me a lot of money due to both high gas prices and lack of time to devote to paying jobs. I already have all of my required internship hours and the rest would be to gain a reputation and more knowledge.
There was something that upset me a little though, which almost brings me back to my original displeasure with broadcast. In a NH town today there were military tanks and SWAT members hiding around these peoples' house because they were protesting paying taxes and demanded that an authority figure show them the law. Shots were fired while one of the people were walking their dog. When I asked why we werent covering the story (at all) I was told that it was yesterday's news... although shots had not been fired yesterday. Talk about gatekeeping.
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