Creepy Republicans keep claiming they need to protect women

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20. Yep, boy do I remember those days!

“A dime and a telephone.”

That’s what one of the leading local news anchors extolled during a speech to our local/regional news organization. As in - that’s all you needed to get on the air to report a story from the field. You’d call in, whoever was on the desk took your call and fed you into the open editing booth to record your report.

Then you hung up and went back to wherever the action was, to collect more interviews, get new angles on the story, and enlarge the report in any way you could.

Just keep a dime handy whenever you were in the field, so you could call in and at least do a voicer on whatever was happening. THAT was the key. And THEN you figured out how to feed tape after you’d fed them an initial report. You could also unscrew the phone’s mouthpiece and use your clip leads to feed tape from your tape recorder through the phone to the bureau.

Ahhhh… what memories, what memories. But, gotta say, even I with my limited engineering skills could handle at least that. Besides, you could polish it up with another set of reports after you got back into the newsroom.