Today was one of the more lively news cycles I\u2019ve worked at Fox 8 since I started there almost a year ago. The big local story was the \u201cearly\u201d end of the offshore drilling moratorium imposed by the Obama administration. We covered the story pretty heavily today but worldwide attention was focused elsewhere. The rescue effort of the trapped miners in Chile saw success as the first few were pulled to the surface tonight. I can only imagine what they would be feeling after being stuck underground for over two months.<\/p>\n
My boss arranged for another PA to come in this evening allowing me to fill in writing, something I\u2019ve only done on Thursdays these past few weeks. I thought I did good work for the most part this evening and nearly all of it made air. I wouldn\u2019t have expected that after the nine o\u2019clock show started and the producer started killing several stories to make room for live hits from Chile. I stopped writing around 8:30. Rather than have Travis hang around another two hours while I did very little, I relieved him and prompted the newscasts.<\/p>\n
A lot of the actual action happened during our ten o\u2019clock show in which quite a few stories were cut to accommodate the miner\u2019s story, even a package on the second congressional district race we teased in the superopen. Unfortunately, we missed the first \u201cbig\u201d moment. We went to commercial right before the first miner to be rescued, Florencio Avalos, reached the surface. Other than that, I thought we put on some good TV.<\/p>\n
Even though I was in to write today was still working my regular schedule and had to stick around until midnight. Fortunately there was no additional \u201cnews\u201d over the scanners before I was free to go home. Unlike yesterday I didn\u2019t come home with a headache so I watched a little TV before bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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