From the desk of Daniel P. Finney, paragraph stacker, Des Moines, Iowa. In the vernacular of Twitter cliche, which is the parlance of our times, if you had “Daniel Finney” takes a job in television news on your bingo card, you win 2020. The person who least expected to be working in television not justContinue reading “My first week in TV: Be careful with the grommets and know your vocabulary words”
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How an episode of ‘Black Mirror’ explained the end of my career in journalism
My friend Mandy Stadtmiller suggested I watch an episode of the British TV series “Black Mirror.” She told me the show is an “anthology of dystopias.” Mandy is an author. That’s the kind of thing authors say. She explained it was kind of like “The Twilight Zone,” only more depressing. I avoid depressing things forContinue reading “How an episode of ‘Black Mirror’ explained the end of my career in journalism”
The Paragraph Stacker 