Ho. We it was a rollercoaster of a ride on Tuesday.
We had David Farmer on. Yes I thought he was the running back from UH too at first. This David Farmer is the bankruptcy attorney for Aloha Airlines. He nearly broke down during an interview on KITV right after the demise of Aloha Airlines (Demise is this month’s hip word in Hawaii). One of our very cool coworkers set up a live interview with Farmer the next morning. He came in and during a live morning show interview proclaimed that 900 Aloha employees who work for the contract services division were also out of work. STOP THE PRESSES. The division was sold to Pacific Air Cargo. The deal would be finalized on Monday and now 900 MORE Aloha employees were out of jobs before anyone had a chance to sign on the dotted line. So instead of 2300 Aloha employees on the street … it was actually 3200 local residents. That wasn’t in the daily papers. No one had reported that! I miss the interview because I was preparing for another segment (we don’t wing it the entire time). Mahea told me just before the segment that had nothing to do with Aloha started. My mind was racing. It was 6:15 AM. We had to change everything. And change it we did. We blew out our regular Headlines at 6:30 segment which we do at the top each half hour and replaced with interview with Mr. Farmer. I watch and think … we are killing everybody. The papers, our morning show TV competitors, everyone! This is today’s big story and you heard it first right here on ‘KITV 4 Your Island Television News This Morning.”
Hours later when I return from the predictable story of how busy Hawaiian Airlines Cargo is now … Mahea breaks it to me. Farmer made a mistake. He was wrong about ? services. There jobs were safe and secure because the sale of Pacific Air was literally protected by the bankruptcy court. Farmer apologized. I don’t blame him. Anyone who’s watched me on the air knows I’ve made a mistake or two … or three. He was caught in an emotional situation on very little rest and was quoted the law. A … what I thought was a feather in the show’s cap … turned out to be a poke in the eye.
And off into the space that one goes.
I responded by waking up the next morning … going to work … and looking for another way to trump my competitors
