What if everything is exactly the way that we imagine it to be? For better or worse?

In TV newsrooms across the country in all 210 markets, there are the same types of employees. It’s as though the stations are staffed by Central Casting. There’s the quiet editor who barely says a word to anyone, an overly flirtatious producer, and the reporter who runs around in a panic about every story like he or she is covering the shooting of John F. Kennedy rather than the annual story about chilly weather meaning it’s time to cover your plants, bring in the pets from the outside, and wrap your home’s pipes.

There’s also the curmudgeonly aka bitter photographer. I’ve known a few. One would lean back in a chair in the newsroom every time managers from the corporate office were in town.

“We’re gonna be sold.”
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