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Let me be clear about one thing. If I had any dirt to dish on this subject I would simply say nothing at all. But, I think, a little perspective is in order. Fox 4 News has lost some reporters in recent months -- and some of the other Blogs in town are portraying that as some sort of ominous trend. But -- with the clear exception of Rebecca Aguilar -- all our departing staffers have left to pursue other career options. Unlike the other stations in town -- Fox 4 isn't laying people off. Jason Overstreet left to take a great job with the professional bowling people, Scott Sayres landed a good PR job and Jeff Crilley started his own business, something he tells me has long wanted to do.

In fact, in the almost 25 years I have worked at KDFW-TV, we are the only local station that has not had massive layoffs at one time or another. Channel 33 has hired and fired three complete newsrooms in the time I've been in Dallas/Fort Worth. All of the other stations (8, 5, 11) have laid off dozens of people at a time -- and more than once.

Arguably, we've had one layoff in 25 years -- an excellent videotape editor who is now freelancing with us. I say "arguably" one layoff because the contract of an excellent Sports anchor/reporter was not renewed about five or six years ago and it's debatable whether that was a layoff. (He went on to get a network job at a much bigger salary - and he's doing just Mark Fein thank you).

This is a tough time in the TV news business. Good people are losing their jobs all over the country in layoffs. Do some of us [...] about our bosses here at Fox 4 News? Does the sun rise in the East? Of course, you can find people who are unhappy with some of what goes on. I've been guilty of bitching and moaning just like everybody else. In fact, I've never worked anywhere that there wasn't somebody unhappy with something. Those trying to make something more of this are often found in the comment sections of various blogs -- without identifying themselves. That's one of the things that really bugs me about this whole Blog thing -- how easy it is to leave nasty or mis-leading comments and to do so anonymously -- on Ed Bark's UncleBarky.com blog, for example. I enjoy reading Ed but I should skip the comments section. I promise you this. If I comment anywhere I use my name. Or, I say nothing at all.

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