A Watershed Watergate Story

摘要

I was fired as 10 p.m. news producer at WLUK in Green Bay during the summer of 1973. That was Watergate summer, and I kept putting clips of the congressional hearings at the top of the news. The station management said Watergate was just a political vendetta, and that I should put on more Lake Michigan area weather because that was what viewers really cared about, not the potential impeachment of President Nixon. Thirty seconds of hard copy down in the show was enough, they said. I kept leading with Watergate. The management was not amused. One afternoon I was in the tape room editing on the big 2-inch machines, and an intercom announcement said 1 should come to the general manager's office. I did, and 10 minutes later I was standing in the parking lot with my worldly possessions in a cardboard box. Just like in the movies.