>> Steve Corman: I'm Steve Corman, C-o-r-m-a-n,
long time television reporter, well,
television writer, producer,
some reporting but more
so behind the scenes putting it all together.
And I was very fortunate
to have worked for NBC News
for a long time both in Chicago and San Diego.
Putting a television newscast together is a
very interesting challenge every single day
and from my standpoint as for many
years a producer who put it together
or an executive producer who oversaw the
operation, I mean you start out in the morning
with so much that might have been there from
overnight and then you have a planning meeting
to sort out what you're going to cover during
the day and as the day goes on, you know,
things develop, things unfold and you know I
say fortunate to have started in the era of film
so that if you're doing 6 o'clock news in the
era of film only and processing and everything
like that anything that's shot after about
5:15 is not going to make the 6 o'clock news.
It's changed so dramatically now that you know;
you can go live in an instant,
so it was always interesting.
I mean, to me being a television news producer
is somewhat like being a baseball player.
One day you can go three for five and those
three hits might be like a little bloop single
and a little dinker that just rolls
down the line where you get a hit
and then a wind-blown three run
homer to win the game, not hit hard
but just hit enough so the wind catches it.
You're a hero.
You're the talk of the town.
Everyone wants your autograph, whatever.
The next day you come to work to play baseball.
You go O for five, you hit the ball screaming
hard every single time but two of them turn
into double plays, another one somebody
makes a spectacular catch, you're O for five.
The team loses.
It doesn't say in the box score
that you hit the ball like crazy.
You're a bum.
I mean it's somewhat comparable to that.
And you know, it's something
different every day.