One thing I've learned during my stint as Promo Joe's right hand man at KFOR is that TV news is a take-no-prisoners, cut-throat world. The stations around town will do anything possible for ratings, Internet page views, and viewer call-ins to an Ogle brother editorial piece.
In fact, the competition is so intense that it occasionally spills over into newsrooms, where coworkers fighting for contract renewals and the opportunity to work at Channel 9 compete against each other for the next big scoop or story. The whole thing can get pretty nasty and violent. For example, during the last sweeps period I watched Abby Broyles, Adam Snider and Ashley Kringen wrestle in an octagon for a flash drive containing the addresses of sex predators who live within one mile of a elementary schools and a dog adoption center. Obviously, Ashley won the flash drive with two early takedowns.