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<\/a><\/p>\nHere we had two people missing in the icy waters of Falls Park while trying to rescue a child who\u2019d fallen in. A man wanted for questioning in a Chamberlain homicide, is holed up inside a Sioux Falls house surrounded by lawmen trying to talk him out. Two people dead after their car was struck by a semi in front of the Grand Falls Casino. A woman sentenced to prison for being high on meth while a two year old in her care lay dead in the closet.<\/p>\n
I wasn\u2019t in the Keloland newsroom Thursday but can pretty much picture the scene; \u201corganized chaos\u201d as veteran assignment editor, Dexter Gronseth stands at his elevated desk with a phone (sometimes two phones) to his ear getting information and dispensing it quickly to those waiting for direction. \u201cBen, you and Rock head to the standoff..let me know when you\u2019re ready to go live. Sammi, Don\u2019s going to solo anchor. I need you to go with Kevin in the live truck and cover Falls Park..go..go go.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Of course news directors, producers, photographers, engineers and all reporters are on hand scrambling to make sure we not only get our facts straight but FIRST.<\/p>\n
I know these are serious and tragic stories and don\u2019t \u00a0mean to\u00a0seem insensitive but for those who\u2019ve chosen journalism as a career, days like Thursday are exhilarating and a true test of whether or not you have the chops for the job. From what I saw, you all passed with flying colors.<\/p>\n
Well done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For local TV stations, news days like Thursday don\u2019t happen very often; days when there are so many important stories going on all at once it\u2019s practically impossible to apply the usual pecking order \u00a0in deciding which one gets priority when going live or during the newscast. Here we had two people missing in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lund-at-large","category-60","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11671,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions\/11671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}