MY NAME is Doug Lancaster. I’m the owner of KNSB.” Doug is seated at the anchor desk staring into the camera, the TelePrompTer on top scrolling down. He’s in a dark business suit and has had makeup applied, something he’s never done before, even on the rare occasions when he has addressed a television audience, but another sleepless night, mostly spent holding his hysterical wife in his arms, has created monster raccoon rings under his eyes and given him an unhealthy pallor. For this presentation he wants to look healthy and in control, so he went with the pancake. “I am speaking to you tonight for a very personal reason.” It took an entire day to write this speech. Joe Allison and Jane Bluestine helped him, and Fred Hampshire vetted it to make sure Doug didn’t say anything of a legal nature that could come back to haunt him later. He practiced reading the speech off the TelePrompTer several times, to make sure it would go smoothly. Off to the side he can see himself in the monitor.
