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Who knew anchoring a newscast was a dangerous occupation.

It’s not in the league of deep sea diver or lion tamer, but it does have it’s hazards. Case in point, last night anchoring the 6:00 news, I bent over to untangle a microphone cord from my chair when my shoulder popped out of it’s socket before sports. If you watched closely you could see my left arm hanging limp on the desk while I was introducing Rene. During the four minutes of sports I managed to put my should back in place, but by then it was throbbing. I closed the show quickly at the end and let out a manly whimper and went on my merry way. By the way my shoulder is sore today, but no big deal.

 It reminded me off a time, about ten years ago, when I was anchoring the Morning Show and threw my back out. This time I was reading the prompter and blew by where a coma should have appeared in the script. Realizing I should have paused, I stopped abruptly and there goes the back. An unusual case of whiplash but what are you going to do.

Some anchors have fallen from their chairs, had lights come crashing down near or on them and even tripped coming off the set. Maybe this is a more dangerous job than I thought, or maybe the majority of us are just clumsy.

 JG

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