Broadcast Buddies

The job market sucks for everyone these days and it can be hard and discouraging to find anything related to a college grads field of study. However, there are some bright spots out there if you are willing to look around. I found a website called b-roll.net, and they make the job finding process much, much easier. Not only is their homepage a list of available broadcasting positions, but they have multiple pages including one called "tips/tricks", that help people hone their skills. Not only that but they have a discussion board where you can go talk with people with similar interests and gain knowledge from hearing other broadcasters personal experience. Here's the link to the site:
http://www.b-roll.net/jobs/index.php

Why Politics Suck

Just recently I have discovered something about myself: I love complaining. OK that isn't completely true I've known this for a while. Usually my belly aching involves things I don't agree with or are too lazy to do, but now something else has caught my attention. The way our President and the Republican party interacts is like a bad high school drama. Being a broadcasting major, I tend to watch the news or read articles online, and these days it's impossible not to hear one side complaining about the other. The most recent example of why nothing important will ever get accomplished between the disgustingly bipartisan parties is really pretty funny. The Republican Presidential candidates have a debate scheduled for next Wednesday, September 8th. They'll probably get together and instead or debating with each other they will stand there and talk about what a poor job the President is doing. Claiming that he had no knowledge of this debate, Obama scheduled a congressional hearing the same night. It's like someone got their feelings hurt because they didn't get invited to the cool kid party. Speaker John Boehner then wrote a nasty note to the President and passed it to him between classes, saying that it wasn't fair of him to do that. So Obama took the high road and rescheduled the hearing. The press ate the whole mini drama up and attempted to blow it out of proportion like usual, and now Democrats and Republicans have something else to fight about. How about both sides grow up and act like adults?
Here is the story.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44343546/ns/politics-white_house/#.Tl-qcDsmEdI