I basically want eight things:
1. I want the raw facts in a simple format....maybe one slide would be enough on one topic.
2. If you mention a place....put a map up. Most people have no real idea where Mongolia is, or how big the Sahara Desert is....or the general location of Mexico City.
3. No story should be complicated enough to require more than two minutes of talking.
4. What Senator so-and-so says is not really that important....so just quote the quote to two lines, and avoid a six-minute interview.
5. If you have to do a Covid-story.....don't run video in the background of some women getting jabbed. Some of us get nauseous when seeing injections.
6. Avoid physical descriptions of women (saying she weighs around 190 pounds). It automatically makes me utter the phrase.....she seems 'chunky'. If you gotta be direct on weight....you might as well say she was marginally attractive, or she carried a lot of extra weight on the butt. None of this is helpful in telling the story though.
7. Avoid talking about social media frenzies.....like Facebook people got all junked-up over this verdict, or how Twitter people fell apart when such-and-such gal uttered this phrase.
8. Frankly, try to model your news after Paul Harvey's 15 minute piece of the news.
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