AFFLUENCE¢ <7) NEWS photo Stuart Davis PAMELA MARTIN on the set of BCTV's News Hour. The veteran anchor/reporter’s most frightening experi- ence on-air was when she was forced to fill five minutes of air time and had nothing to say. Martin reports, writes, produces From page 36 TY journalism in his song Dirty Laundry, in which he took shots at news anchors, suggesting, in the case of women, they are nothing more than ‘bubble headed bleach blondes” who do not understand what they are reading. e a Ci) © Westminster House © Library © Beauty Salon © taunges © Underground parking WHITE RO But Martin rejects such criti- cism. “A story doesn’t come from a deep voice,’’ she says. ‘‘It’s more about you, yourself knowing what you're talking about. That’s one thing we do here (BCTV). The people who anchor the news don’t \ : . 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For example, | used to sail and I soid my sailboat because | found it too difficult to take tiny children on a sailboat and relax at the same time. I would just want to have them tied down because on a sailboat too many things can happen. We ski and fove to fish. I try not to choose things that I know are going to be nerve racking rather than relaxing. We go to the beach and we travel. My mother lives in Michigan and in Florida, so we see her quite a few times a year.”’ Do your kids watch you on TV?: “I don’t think they do. Once in a while they see me. People do talk to me quite often when we’re in public, in a grocery store or some- thing. I think for them (the kids) it’s (being on TV) just always been a natural part of life and it hasn't occurred to them that it doesn’t happen to eveyone’s mom. But it’s possible in the next little while that my son might start noticing it doesn't happen to everyone's mom. | think they’re just too little at this point to understand."' 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For advice concerning a major injury claim please call our personal injury group at: What's the hardest part of your job?: ‘‘The hours are very dif- ficult. It’s not your average nine to five job...news doesn't happen within that time frame. | work on the weekends and | work in the evenings. My schedules change, so that’s a little bit hard on your life. As for the actual job...television, it’s just the nature of the medium, I think, that makes for a very stressful job. You have to produce a story every day. You have to produce a newscast every- day, whether interesting things happen every day or whether or not you have them on video tape. The daily deadline is very stressful, but it’s also the part I love about this business. I think you have to be the kind of person that thrives on having that stress, that deadline, that pressure to produce at a certain time.”’ What do you think makes BCTV’s News Hour so successful?: ‘It’s really a hard formula to pin down, if, in fact, it is a formula. You have to have all the ingredients. You have to have the content and you have to have the pecple who can deliver it to the viewer. Without one or the other I don’t think you make it. You could have the greatest anchors in the world, but if you don’t have anything to tell them (viewers) they won’t watch. SUING FOR Derek Cave Dennis Quinlan Martha Konig 687-3216