Re(6): Field reporting Posted on January 3, 2026 at 06:16:32 PM by rman
We have a special needs grandchild so we moved to where HE is to help out. Believe me, I do grow tired of seeing Trump signs and Stars and Bars. People are as ignorant here as in PVKS. I think when they had to take 9th grade citizenship to graduate, the curriculum was limited to the Civil War and after. Everything they say abt Southerners is very true...except they all drive real slow like farmers. Not much crime here, it's all over in Memphis. It does get dumber the further south ya go...and that's true of the entire southern belt from Florida westward to Arizona. We just can't all of us move to SoCal! Its too crowded and expensive, but one of the kids lived out there and we visited. Those are fast drivers, fer sure. and Except for Orange County, they're all liberals. Okay, nuff of my whining.
Our other kid, on a European PhD scholarship moved to Europe 10 yrs ago, decided it was a cool place to live, married a European, so our Delta airline budget eats my entire retirement check, but luckly daily Facetime calls to the kids are unlimited and free...making it seem like they live close--like maybe in Prairie Village or Olathe. Keeps life exciting.
You should have said "living rent free IN YOUR HEAD." I took you literally, wondering why you said that over and over, you thought I was mooching. We've stayed together for more than 50 years.
Now my work with the handicapped has NOT extened to ADA construction rules tho I slowly saw the results over decades in bldg design. When did ADA require total concessions. One of my kids lived in a 4th floor walkup in NY, so I dont know how retroactive and complete rules are... Wish you'd educated us on more interesting things instead of fixating on your Psychology-babble all these decades!
That's the difference between you and me, you're into a lifetime insult-a-rama, and i prefer teaching and sharing what I know from my media experience. Believe it or not I did manage a career without hanging out too close to the AP wire, ripping it and reading it. Thats what major markets call news. Including Kansas City. Especially Kansas City.
The rest of us had money and local ownership to go beat the bushes for the news. When that left the building, so did I because you're right. rip n read takes no talent. Like jocks reading continuity copy and playing the same Top 40 records for month.
I've told you before, I do bore easily so have changed specialties countless times.
Thats when I got into programming computers but that was mostly to put kids thru college and build a retirement. Now, retirements like every day is Saturday. Turns out today's another Saturday but my wife's out playing right now, we put away our christmas shit this morning. And that girl LOVES buying Christmas shit. 15 bins of Christmas shit, and I'm the same age as Trump, but I don't have assistants to keep house... YET!
Did I cover your last post? Well yeah but we've discussed winners and loser so many times you should just be able to look up one of my messages from years ago on that topic. One reason why you ended up with a pile of money was because, as you know each kid costs $100,000+ to raise em right, and jocks and reporters know that everytime you have to change markets, that's another $100,000 expense to lose your equity to Realtors, uproot your kids lives and cause your spouse to change jobs too. Another reason to get the hell out of the media.
The worst of it is that in TV News, there are only 3-4 employers, people come and go constantly, often don't hire from across the street. I leanred years ago wanting to get out of the toilet bowl on Signal Hill the ND where I really wanted to go said the GMs learned after bouncing weathermen, to avoid salary wars and never hire from competitors. So since then, its clear they get their sister stations to steal other good staff for other markets.
I think I whined about that a lot back in the 90s when I wondered if there was life after television. And a PR chick who used to work at 9 said YES, calm down and change careers once and for all. I did. Since then no worries about sending out tapes and CD's across the nation, there are many hundreds of employers in ever city looking for qualified computer people. I was self taught working in TV. If I'd known it was so easy to jump ship, I"d have done it years before.
Thats' my story. Why did you decide to quit corporate media and work out of your house? Did you learn that same lesson when you jumped from Wichita to Prairie Village? I presume so. Except for anchors, most media people dont' often put down deep roots, do they?
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