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Lord!
Perhaps someone should start something like myskynewsmemories.com - where former staff can describe their experience of what it's like to work somewhere that is probably the closest to Baghdad you'll get without actually being there.
I was there once and one of the channel's "star" presenters was at the old newswall and threw a tantrum about the sound that, at least, could be best described as volcanic. It quite jaw-dropping to watch a middle-aged woman behave like a five-year-old who's had their sweets taken away.
When someone once got the spelling of a locator wrong, one of the senior staff sent out an e-mail to the equivalent of "SkyNewsAll" naming and shaming her.
Staff crying in the toilets, walking out on the job, tantrums, screaming, throwing chairs, beating tables with fists - if you've been at Sky News you will have seen it all.
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Don't get me started, Luke !
Suffice to say, with the disclaimer that my views are not necessarily representative of my former colleagues .. well, not all of them anyway ...
Also bear in mind I have never had any interest in rolling news or sport, especially so with the advent of increasing gimmickery and questionable tabloid news values ....
I was just a vision-mixer doing a job ...
Sky is a stressful, sullen place in general, especially so in News.
The work is fiendishly repetitive and boring.
The technical staff are treated like robots, not human beings.
Some of the gallery producers are next to useless. Others just plain rude.
The old gallery was cramped, dirty and poorly air conditioned.
Some of the gallery directors are too bored or incapable to direct clearly.
Some of the gallery directors think they're directing an epic.
All the above grate when you're stuck doing a difficult but tedious job for either 3, 4 or 5 hours at a stretch.
That's a concise summary !
Suffice to say, with the disclaimer that my views are not necessarily representative of my former colleagues .. well, not all of them anyway ...
Also bear in mind I have never had any interest in rolling news or sport, especially so with the advent of increasing gimmickery and questionable tabloid news values ....
I was just a vision-mixer doing a job ...
Sky is a stressful, sullen place in general, especially so in News.
The work is fiendishly repetitive and boring.
The technical staff are treated like robots, not human beings.
Some of the gallery producers are next to useless. Others just plain rude.
The old gallery was cramped, dirty and poorly air conditioned.
Some of the gallery directors are too bored or incapable to direct clearly.
Some of the gallery directors think they're directing an epic.
All the above grate when you're stuck doing a difficult but tedious job for either 3, 4 or 5 hours at a stretch.
That's a concise summary !
Lord!
Perhaps someone should start something like myskynewsmemories.com - where former staff can describe their experience of what it's like to work somewhere that is probably the closest to Baghdad you'll get without actually being there.
I was there once and one of the channel's "star" presenters was at the old newswall and threw a tantrum about the sound that, at least, could be best described as volcanic. It quite jaw-dropping to watch a middle-aged woman behave like a five-year-old who's had their sweets taken away.
When someone once got the spelling of a locator wrong, one of the senior staff sent out an e-mail to the equivalent of "SkyNewsAll" naming and shaming her.
Staff crying in the toilets, walking out on the job, tantrums, screaming, throwing chairs, beating tables with fists - if you've been at Sky News you will have seen it all.