The newsroom

Drawn faces, slightly accusatory glances and barely suppressed anger…this is what the newsroom has to offer these days…
When work becomes punishment frustration sets in. When i came here, after years in print, i was thrilled about acquiring new skills. I was clueless at first, going out in the field all day and coming back vague about the story or the footage.
While i am far from being professional, the joy of learning something new is still intact.
How can you work like corporates in a creative field? They say all TV newsrooms are war zones, TV people are typically rude….
But i guess more than 50 per cent of the newsroom tension stems from the simple fact that they think they need to be tense to be efficient. If you look happy while working, you cannot be working at all. And then, if you are not tense, you try to look tense to fit in. A professional needs to have a permanent frown pasted on the forehead. What trash!
People are at their productive best when they love what they are doing. This is a simple lesson forgotten by so called professionals. If you have fun, you churn out a masterpiece…I don't deny pressure. But pressure can be lots of fun too! Here there are a whole lot of youngsters getting prematurely aged. What a pity…