Comments on: Hairston’s Hair-Raising Departure

By: alanp

alanp — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:02:05 +0000

Yes, one person can be asked to do three jobs because of technology. But he or she can’t do the three jobs as well as three people and without experiencing burnout.

By: alanp

alanp — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:59:12 +0000

The majority of veterans you list were hired years or decades ago. Shapiro (who was hired right out of college) and Segal are much more recent hires. Let’s see who replaces Mylous — a veteran or a newbie out of college.

By: Sammy G

Sammy G — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:01:14 +0000

The problem with veterans and especially veterans in unions is that they don’t want to accept that the world has changed. News gathering has undergone a tremendous amount of change, yet the “veterans” selfishly want their jobs to remain as they were 20 or 30 years ago.

While you don’t want to lose experienced people, you also don’t want to have a newsroom full of resentful people who refuse to accept change.

People in news often start disparaging young hires or start warning of some drop in journalism standards if things are changed.

Because of technology, one person can do what used to take two or three union employees.

If Mylous Hairston was a leader in the newsroom instead of a union leader he would of picked up a camera and shown everyone how digital news gathering is done. Instead he quit and created an opportunity for someone else who will do the job without complaining.

By: Tom W.

Tom W. — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:47:47 +0000

Channel 2 seems to be the only station with a lot of stability where they have kept the veterans while adding both new and veteran reporters (Patrick Moussignac with 12 yrs prior to Ch 2) at the same time. They have also consistantly gotten better in the news presentation over the last several years.

Ch 2 updated their weather center (going full HD last year), built a new set this year (which is HD ready), and continued investing in reporters. Realistically, they could be #1 with ratings in just a short time. They’ve already accomplished this with Daybreak, and are very close with the other shows.

They will probably be the first local station with news in HD also. Their parent Gannett ramping up conversions to HD (they have done 2 stations already in the past 5 months), and a good portion of their stations have been in HD for some time.

By: Pergy's friend

Pergy's friend — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:46:54 +0000

Geez, I hope Ch 2 never changes its philosophy.

Liked the dig at the News still relying on its trusty old “free”lance reporter.