Recent Posts Tagged With 'stackers'

• FILM AT 11 -- DON'T TOUCH MY ^*#@ RADIO

  Posted on Monday June 9th, 2008 at 06:55 in Radio, suits, film at 11, stackers, assman, photogs

  Edi-turd's note: In our continuing bitchfest about how that expose on lint that kills ends up on your television for the evening report, FIL-TURD now delves into the second most mysterious place in the news business, The Mobile Newsroom. Any resembel...

• FILM AT 11 -- BEAT CHECKS

  Posted on Friday May 30th, 2008 at 07:40 in reporters, film at 11, producers, stackers, photogs, beat checks

  Edi-Turd's note: Welcome to part two in a series of mud missiles aimed at explaining how most television stations bring you what passes for news these days. The following is a composite look at the way things work at half-dozen stations that have had...

• SERVING THE FECAL BUFFETT

  Posted on Wednesday April 30th, 2008 at 06:07 in producers, live shot, stackers, shit sandwhich

  TURD NOTE: The following is a tongue-in-cheek look at how the news gets to your dinner table every night. I have the highest regard for producers and would never dream of saying anything deragatory about them in real life.Producers are the resturant ...

• VERNAL SWEEP-QUINOX

  Posted on Friday April 25th, 2008 at 05:55 in sweeps, ratings, producers, gas tax, live shot, stackers

  "IT'S SWEEPS, ASSUME YOU'RE GOING TO BE LIVE." That's the quote written on the Big Raggedy Buffet board yesterday morning.Sweeps come around four times a year. Its sort of like the changing of the seasons in the newsroom. Its a time when normally mil...