They Never Know What They Don't Hear
| 12:08 UK time, Monday, 3 April 2006
One of the rules by which we live our broadcasting lives is that if we don't get something on the air, because of time pressures or technical mistakes, then usually we are only ones to suffer.
The reporter who has spent days tracking down a story and whose tape fouls up at the crucial moment, or who has spent hours driving on bad roads to a news location only to discover that their phone can't get a signal and the mobile sounds like its underwater and so can't get on the radio - we in the studio feel for them, but we can find a way of covering the hole in the programme.
Now there is a way to make these things come back from the dead. This is it - the blog.
So I can bring you this rave from the grave - Tara Gadomski's punch line from her press review this morning.
Tara gets up before dawn every Monday to give as a roundup of what the US papers are saying.
Even when the snow was thick on the ground, she made it and sounded bright and cheerful.
Today, because we ran a bit long on an inteview earlier in the programme, Tara's three minutes went down to two-and-a-half. She had to stop early.
So here is what you missed, exactly as she sent me in her outline script:
FINALLY
Many news organizations reporting: the late Jerry Garcia's toilet has been stolen. Police say the Grateful Dead leader's commode was stolen recently from a driveway along with three other toilets and a bidet. It was meant to go up for auction. You know you have to say it Dan: Police have nothing to go on.
Boom boom.
Too good a line to disappear unnoticed, I hope you agree.
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