Two TV professionals discuss the industry's harsh realities: one entered at 22 and learned that appearance and viewer judgment demand thick skin, while the other stresses the ethical weight of broadcast journalism, where any mistake becomes public. Both emphasize resilience and accuracy as survival skills.
You two have such amazing backgrounds going from different places and having all of these different, um, excitements and changes in your career. So if you both could share any challenges that you might have faced along the way and how you overcame them.
I really grew up in TV. I got my first TV job when I was 22 years old, and it's a very subjective business. It's one of the few industries where you can be turned away because of your physical appearance. You get a really thick skin because not only are your peers within the industry really judging you a lot, but viewers are. People don't like what they see, they will change the channel.
You do see things that are very harsh to see that you would only assume, like, you know, perhaps police officers or, and so forth would see. But it is our responsibility to share that news. It is our responsibility to make sure that it is accurate. We do not want to make mistakes. We do not want to give misinformation. Every single mistake is out for the viewers to see and to criticize.
