Was there some kind of major football event on Sunday?
I’ve been in a breaking news fog since about 2 p.m. on that day. The horrible sadness one person can cause to a family and a community is shocking. I’ve seen seasoned reporters become emotional over the Powell family tragedy.
My job basically centers around breaking news. So when you have a major story, plus a hostage standoff and a fatal car crash, the day kind of seems like a daze. I was kind of shocked that the day was happening. It was the first time I thought “hmm, being so breaking news focused might not be good for my health.”
I work with great people. Amazing people. And when something like this happens, I always go back to that.
For some reason, we have tragedy in this life. I can’t explain it. But there are good people in the world too.
And I came home and ate the Super Bowl snacks I didn’t get to eat. I make a mean guacamole.
Ugh. I feel you on the breaking news. I spent Sunday afternoon doing the same thing with the Powell story. At least I only had to keep refreshing the AP Exchange site and moving that copy onto my paper’s site. Well, and the social media stuff…
And then the news tonight? Horrific. Pure evil. I just can’t understand.
I’d like to have some of your quacamole sometime. In between breaking news stories, of course.
Such a sad, sad story. It was horrific to hear considering no more than a year ago I was covering the same sort of story on Easter Sunday last year in Vancouver Washington. We can’t let breaking news harden us, we must remember that the people are the story. And, it’s OK to be horrified, it’s OK to get emotional. That’s what I tell myself whenever I cover tragedy anyway.
I hadn’t heard about the story when I saw you tweet about this the other day but then read all about it. How incredibly awful.