"You stay classy, San Diego."
Ron Burgundy
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
2004
I always dreamed of being an anchor, delivering the news, rambling on about interesting must knows, and of course being on camera. Yet, as I aged and came more to my senses... the news is about 95% depressing now. So, when Anchorman came around it gave newsworthy a different analytic to the phrase reporter.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy was not only about competition in the newsroom, it was about status in position.
Have we all been in a position where years over experience ranked higher in the mindset of our superiors? Haven't we all been in a position where what we thought we knew was only half of what we ended up re-learning? I think about comedy, humor, and of course one-liners when I think of this film.
Will Ferrell and Christina Applegate did a great job playing rival news anchors. It is apparent that sometimes competition is inevitable, and competing for a job, love, or even status seem to all measure up just the same.
Stay classy San Diego! Yep, stay classy.
Living there for 10 years gave me such an experience of a different way of life. Waking up with warm temps, the beach around the corner, the endless array of things to do, museums, Sea World, Wild Animal Park... you name it.
San Diego was classy, San Diego is classy. Question is: What makes the news, news?
In a world of public relations I find that PR folks make the news, news. Getting involved in a story with a soul is news worthy for reporters to take part in. Getting involved in the reality of the news is that sometimes things just occur that need publicity. I was lucky enough to be on set at a new station when I interned in college. It was incredible. The men were applying just as much make-up between takes and the camera juggling and positioning was enough to give an anchor whiplash.
The glamour to the news is in the delivery. The seamless spoken word with improvisation and intelligence.
I will always look at reporters, anchors and the media the same; we are in an information world, surrounded by technology. We are surrounded by "need to know" and "be the first to know". Yet, we sometimes forget the hard work that goes into making a story a reality. The hard work in making the reality someone's story.
"Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention. I've just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story. I need all of you, to stop what you're doing and listen. Cannonball!" -Ron Burgundy
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