No rest for we weary souls in the newsroom. Instead, we have been abundantly blessed by the 'breaking news gods'. Over-abundantly!
Normally, on a holiday week such as this, we would struggle to come up with enough stories like, "How to keep your Christmas leftovers from making you sick" and "Losing those Christmas inches", etc.
Instead, we've had a steady diet of what we refer to as "breaking news". These are events that constitute news but are *not planned on or expected.
We've had fatal car crashes galore, bank robberies, bomb threats that evacuate the local mall, 4-alarm business fires (only the 2nd such fire since I moved here four years ago!), domestic violence incidents that end with a self-defense murder by bb gun!, etc.
The types of stories that on a normal week we'd sometimes devote two or three reporters to are now only getting one reporter. We've simply run out of people due to vacations.
Those of us left are getting very brain-weary and starting to make mistakes. We need someone to come off the bench and give us a time-out! Soon.
Oh, and while you're at it, could you call off the 'breaking news gods'? I'd love a good old-fashioned week-between-christmas-and-new-year's type story about now.
Nimitz' Lady
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