Reason #1.
Visualization vs just
verbalization: anything hits you much stronger when you see and hear about it
than if you read it from the lifeless piece of paper. Even a photo captures
only single moment of the event or emotion: it cannot express the whole range
of life’s nuances. You can say so much more with just five seconds shot than you
would read in a whole-page article.
As a public, we feel it
deeper when we see something with our own eyes, we “believe” in it. The
Ethiopian famine of the early 1980s was written about in newspapers at length
for some time, but with little reaction. Only when BBC Television beamed the
horrors of starvation to the West’s meal tables did the public sit up and take
notice.
Reason
#2.
Moreover, there is so much
more for creativity and originality in the playful combination of words, moving
pictures and sounds. Got bored with dull news you have to report? Create your
own masterpiece by mixing up the words with controversial picture or getting a
shot from an interesting angle. I noticed it when interning with a TV news
station: even the most tiresome piece can be transformed into Mona Lisa with a nice flow of information
and beautiful close-ups.
Reason
#3.
Newsroom is a huge family
living under one roof and intercommunicating every spare second.
Recommendations, rumors, dramas, jokes, pranks – you can find anything in the
electrified atmosphere of a TV newsroom. People are bond to work together as
their final piece is a result of a team work: it takes at least, a reporter, a
photographer, and a producer. In short words, communication and relationships
are vital components of broadcasting which brings us to …
Reason #4.
99% of the broadcasting employees are
naturally positive and energetic. Thousands of people watch you on their screens
every day: you got to be cheerful and easy-going. Even if you are behind the scene,
how can you be down in the crowd of smiling reporters and anchors? Every time I
would enter a newsroom in a horrible mood, two minutes later my gloomy look
would disappear without a trace. I still miss all the jokes and pranks of our
photographers (you can’t survive at this profession without some sarcasm in
your blood) and shining eyes of our reporters when found a great “pitch”.
Reason
#5.
Just one word. Adrenaline.
None of the breathtaking stories and investigations to write about for
newspaper can compare with racing to catch the police speaker-man making a
statement about the “just-happened” murder and to manage to put him on air
before any other station. Or this moment when a kidnapped girl was returned to
her parents just 2 minutes before 5pm show right in front of the reporter to be
on air.
Job where you never know
what’s going to happen in the next minute. For me, that’s a description of
perfect job.
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