Thursday, December 8, 2005

ACTION AT A DISTANCE — by Steve Nadis

We make choices in life, and those choices have consequences. For example, I wrote a blog awhile ago about how I had switched to watching Harvey Leonard’s weather reports on the 11:00 news instead of the forecasts of Ed Carroll, who I used to watch, or Harvey’s replacement at WHDH, Todd Gross.

Evidently enough other people read that post because now both Todd and Ed are out of jobs–or at least out of jobs in the high-profile Boston market, which is, by all accounts, a “great weather town” and, depending on which meteorologist you talk to, possibly the best in terms of interesting fronts swooping down from Canada, sweeping across the Midwest, and rocketing up the East Coast.

By switching to Channel 5 (WCVB) and then writing about it, for the whole world to see, I never really thought about the consequences. And I never meant for anyone to lose his job over it, though I sometimes forget how influential I’ve become. I don’t know what to say, Ed or Todd, or how I’ll ever make it up to you. I guess I’ll start by saying sorry. Then I’ll call my friend in New York, an agent who represents TV and radio people, and see what can be done to make things right.

Posted by Snake at 16:33:42
Comments

7 Responses to “ACTION AT A DISTANCE — by Steve Nadis”

  1. DrMax says:
    December 8, 2005 at 9:18 pm

    Wow Snake you’ve become a real force in modern media. OK, maybe just with Boston based meteoroligists, but still…

  2. Snake says:
    December 8, 2005 at 9:32 pm

    Thanks Doc. Maybe I’m not a "kingmaker" yet, but it’s a start. Now I’ve got to be careful when I "flex my muscles" lest anyone else gets hurt.

  3. Catherine says:
    December 9, 2005 at 1:47 am

    A legend in your own mind. lol

  4. Anonymous says:
    December 9, 2005 at 1:56 am

    zardoz says:
    for torture you can sew for 75.000 dinards
    for hot-scalding coffee 10.ooo.000 dinards
    for making metereologists lose their jobs
    how much can they take ya for..?
    then of course if they had predicted the
    WIND this FALL correctly ,
    they wouldnt have lost their jobs, right.?
    ——————————– zardoz

  5. Snake says:
    December 9, 2005 at 2:29 am

    Hey Z — If they had predicted the WINDFALL correctly, they wouldn’t be worrying about their jobs. And thanks to you too, Catherine, for the reality check.

  6. Catherine says:
    December 9, 2005 at 2:33 pm

    You know I love ya!

  7. Snake says:
    December 9, 2005 at 3:44 pm

    Thanks again, Catherine. That’s even better than a reality check.

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