8 Weather Reporting
Marysol Castro is blunt about it: “I'm not a meteorologist/ ”she says, “I don't claim to be a meteorologist — I have no desire to become a meteorologist.”
But Marysol is the nation's weather reporter appearing on ABC Network's morning broadcast Good Morning America. When she was hired, she had never done weather before. What she knew was television. She'd studied it, worked at small stations and knew it inside and out. And she knows what people want. “Very few people at home know the difference between a low-pressure system and a high-pressure system,” she says. “They want to know: Is it going to be cold? Do I have to put on a down jacket? Is it going to be hot? Do I get to wear this new dress I just bought?”
She says you ...
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