A Labor of Love
- lewopschall
- Feb 15, 2015
- 2 min read
I arrived at work at 6 a.m. I left work at 6:30 p.m. No, there wasn’t any breaking news or anything like that. It was this, a labor of love.
A few weeks ago I decided to start doing the things that make me come alive. Unfortunately that doesn’t mean I stop doing the work I am given while on the job. It does mean I have to work more, to fit in the work I do want to do. I love sitting down with your “Average Joe,” and listening to them tell their story, because I believe everyone has a story worth telling.
I decided it would be fun to sit down with some couples to talk about their relationship for Valentine’s Day. I linked up with a church that set me up with the three different couples in the piece. The eldest couple, the Healy’s, have been married for 65 years, and they are still SO in love. Watching them together was a treat. The Holstein’s is the couple that appears second in the story; they are relatively new to the married life and have been together for two years. The third couple, the Mussman’s, have been together for 15 years. All of them were very lovely. I spoke with each couple for about 12 minutes each.
Sit down interviews in a talk show format are my favorite. I preach they are the best form of journalism, because they are raw. There is no editing. The interviewee tells you their thoughts and feeling, nothing is filtered by the journalist writing a story. (The piece I put together is edited. I was lucky enough to get more than two minutes for the piece to run on the news; usually I get 1:30 max, after all time is everything. ).
I fell in love with the sit-down format when I was in college. I hosted my own talk show. Have a look for yourself. Here's a compilation of my favorite sit down shows I hosted my senior year of college in 2012. (Amazing how much I've changed in just three years!)
I have always said my dream job would be to have my own talk show like Oprah. I think with today’s technology and where television is going it will not look the same as her show did for the 25 years she had it. I see that as a good thing though, because as much as I admire her for what she’s done, I don’t want to become her, I want to be me, but I do want to have a similar platform and impact on the world as she did. Is it a lofty goal? Certainly... and getting there might take a few more 12-hour days.
留言