NECN

Today we visited the studios of NECN, the New England Cable News. They pride themselves on their serious, more in depth look at their stories, and the fact that they are not just a news station, producing many documentaries from solemn subjects such as New England born soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan that have fallen to lighter tone stories on a New England stand up comedian who juggles several jobs, her family and her dream.
While there we met Chris Collins, a New Hampton alumni and the anchor for the sports casting of NECN. We also saw the process of the recording of a Tuesday segment, PFW TV, or Patriot Football Weekly Television. In this segment there were evidences of "truth manipulation", in which the future Patriot vs Dolphins game was referred to as "squish the fish time", and the description of the Dolphins given being the "lowly Miami Dolphins", while it is true they have a far worse record than the Patriots the use of words in the description gives them a sort of pathetic feel while they are, despite their record, still professional football players.
We also met another anchor and a few behind the scenes coordinators, such as producers and story "finders", this shows how many levels the news goes through before we end up getting it. (ie. it may end up like the game many of you played as kids 'Telephone").
And although it may not relate very much to the topic at hand, we met a very kind meteorologist who showed us his job...Which goes through one person, with no teleprompter. What you see is what you get with the weather, although I now have newfound respect for meteorologists for the amount of work they have to do to get you an accurate forecast.


PS: Mr. Menke, Chris Collins says hello.