Rant time everyone! Ok so I'm doing a news story about the planned parenthood in Mt. P being protested. This morning my gf hits the alarm and goes back to sleep without waking me up. I wake up at 9:50 with my first interview (with planned parenthood). I make it there at 10:04, no small feat because I had to swing by my apt. to pick up the recording equipment. Interview went fine.
I get home, check the mail and my packages are here...yay. My new Interpol shirt and the 1999 RPG of the year (Planescape:Torment) that they finally got around to reprinting. I own the origional but it was so badly scratched it wouldnt play. I pop the disc in to play before my next interview and guess what....after installation....program wont run. #)$(*#)$ing computer.
So I play some Red Faction II and blow off steam blowing shit up.
I have an interview at 1pm with the pro-life protester at big boy(his choice, not mine). It's fucking loud and I had to change some things to get it to work. I go through a 20 minute interview with this nutjob, who by the way is not only anti abortion, but anti birth control of ALL types and pre-marital sex. He claims that the origional goal of the founder of planned parenthood was out to ELIMINATE the blacks, latinos and poor people. Basically, this guy is #@$(*#$(ing as conservative as you can get without being the pope and wants to press his views on everyone else.
We get done with the interview and he wants me to explain how my segment is going to be set up. I explain that it will be planned parenthood explaining what they are and what types of things they do and then him coming in with the reasons behind the protest. He freaks out at being in the same segment as PP. WTF?!?!?!....If you are protesting someplace, you should be used to being mentioned alongside of them. Anyway, he says that he doesnt want to have it on the air. Legally, even if he consented to the interview in the first place, I can't air the interview without his consent. I give him my arguement about journalistic integrity and unbiased reporting etc. I try to pacify anything that I can think of that may be causing him being so difficult. It seems like he just has a pathological hatred of PP and doesnt use logic. But anyway, I convinced him to give it some thought and call me. He left my roommate a message(I have no phone) to call him soooo......the fucker is leaving me up in the air. Without the interview, the story dies...and my editor needs to know if the story is going to die. I want to kill this fucker!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Thanks for listening....its been driving me crazy all day.
If you just read through that....holy shit, your awesome.
Current Mood: Frustrated
Current Music: The Roots and BT- Tao of the Machine
I get home, check the mail and my packages are here...yay. My new Interpol shirt and the 1999 RPG of the year (Planescape:Torment) that they finally got around to reprinting. I own the origional but it was so badly scratched it wouldnt play. I pop the disc in to play before my next interview and guess what....after installation....program wont run. #)$(*#)$ing computer.
So I play some Red Faction II and blow off steam blowing shit up.
I have an interview at 1pm with the pro-life protester at big boy(his choice, not mine). It's fucking loud and I had to change some things to get it to work. I go through a 20 minute interview with this nutjob, who by the way is not only anti abortion, but anti birth control of ALL types and pre-marital sex. He claims that the origional goal of the founder of planned parenthood was out to ELIMINATE the blacks, latinos and poor people. Basically, this guy is #@$(*#$(ing as conservative as you can get without being the pope and wants to press his views on everyone else.
We get done with the interview and he wants me to explain how my segment is going to be set up. I explain that it will be planned parenthood explaining what they are and what types of things they do and then him coming in with the reasons behind the protest. He freaks out at being in the same segment as PP. WTF?!?!?!....If you are protesting someplace, you should be used to being mentioned alongside of them. Anyway, he says that he doesnt want to have it on the air. Legally, even if he consented to the interview in the first place, I can't air the interview without his consent. I give him my arguement about journalistic integrity and unbiased reporting etc. I try to pacify anything that I can think of that may be causing him being so difficult. It seems like he just has a pathological hatred of PP and doesnt use logic. But anyway, I convinced him to give it some thought and call me. He left my roommate a message(I have no phone) to call him soooo......the fucker is leaving me up in the air. Without the interview, the story dies...and my editor needs to know if the story is going to die. I want to kill this fucker!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Thanks for listening....its been driving me crazy all day.
If you just read through that....holy shit, your awesome.
Current Mood: Frustrated
Current Music: The Roots and BT- Tao of the Machine
VIEW 5 of 5 COMMENTS
ragefilledmuffin:
I am supposed to be out of work by then--I'll definitely give it a listen if I am. Well, assuming I make it in to work, given this insanity outside. Driving home from work today was a trip.
ragefilledmuffin:
Did the story happen?