Adam Feldfogel - Producer Rundown Rationale

For today's newscast, I really wanted to emphasize the local news first, followed by the national news. I started with Shelby's live wrap about the homecoming for former-S.U. basketball players Wes Johnson, Johnny Flynn, and Jason Hart, as the Minnesota Timberwolves play the Detroit Pistons in an exhibition game from the Carrier Dome Friday night. I followed that up with a reader about Republican candidate for governor, Carl Paladino, and his claim that he will close the Turning Stone Resort and Casino if he was elected governor. This affects millions of New Yorkers who enjoy going to the resort/casino. It was also a reader, which allowed me to split up the two wraps in the newscast. The next story was Phil's wrap about the apparent gas leak at F-M High School. It was a local story that turned out to be a false alarm. Next, we went to the author of "Flags of our Fathers," who was speaking at Syracuse University today. This brought the story in from "local" to "hyperlocal" and also broke up a reader and an ancor-actuality. The next two stories, about the SUNY Oswego student and the Syracuse health aide kept the news in Central New York, and continued to alternate between readers and ancor-actualities, giving us the opportunities to have at least one sound bite in every other story. The final two stories, about the miners in Chile and the Anti-Gay attack in New York City, were more national news than local news. Once again it broke up readers and ancor-actualities. Our kicker was a story about Vincent Pastore, formerly of "The Sopranos" visiting Syracuse to screen his new movie for the Syracuse International Film Festival.