Wink news anchor leaves5/7/2023 ![]() Hair, makeup, clothing-those are a lot of the emails or phone calls you get. “There’s a lot of pressure in that, especially for women. But you have that worry on top everything else. Working in print, I don’t worry about my appearance. Other things are like, ‘You do the 5, 6 and 7 o’clock news, so you must get in at 4:30,’ not realizing all the work, and all of the people, that it takes to put on a newscast.” “Some things are silly, like, ‘How do you memorize all that stuff?’, not realizing we have teleprompters. What’s the biggest misconception you hear about your job? We should have a little more of a cynical eye on what we’re reading and hearing.” People have become a lot less critical of where they’re getting their information. Smartphones and those things have changed since I started. People who say, ‘Oh, it’s so nice to meet you.’ … When you talk about ‘the media,’ I do have an opinion about how the media has changed since I’ve been a journalist. “When I go to the grocery store, for example, I only receive positive feedback from people. People say, “I don’t like the media.” But their perceptions change when asked about specific news outlets. We just need to be hyper-focused on that.” We have to do journalism in our purest form. We need to do all the things our basic journalism principles tell us to do. We need to correct them as quickly as possible. I don’t believe I am the ‘enemy of the people.’ I see myself as a pure journalist trying to provide unbiased information to people on a daily basis.” To me, this is a big shift in how the media is treated. I can’t say I’ve had that happen to me before (now). Sometimes I find myself trying to defend my profession. I do a lot of community events, and I’m often approached by people in the public who put me in a group of media that can’t be trusted. But I can’t say it’s been completely removed from my life. ![]() We cover local issues that are important to Southwest Florida. This attitude of the press as the “enemy of the people”-do you see any of this? ![]() Here, she shares with us her thoughts on the challenges facing the industry. The Wisconsin native has worked at WINK since 1992. WINK anchor Lois Thome is one of the most experienced journalists in Southwest Florida. Surrounding this is an economic downtown in the industry the number of newsroom employees is down about 25 percent over the last decade, according to the Pew Research Center. A shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland killed five people-and threats continue against major news outlets such as CNN. The phrases “enemy of the people” and “fake news” have become common political rhetoric. ![]()
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