He jokes, It s not like I do a s ance or drink ginseng in the morning. It s not that spiritual. Instead Marc uses his instincts to decide what might be important to those sleepy eyed viewers who are tuning in. Marc, however, disagrees with the television axiom, if it bleeds it leads. He believes there s other, less violent stories that people are interested in.
Nobody wants to wake up and hear about crime for the whole hour.
They want variety and it s up to me to find that variety based on what s available. Since he creates the show, he also has a chance to inject some of his sense of humor in the non-news segments of the broadcast. He does admit, however, that in some cases he has to tone down his cynicism a little bit, since he s not the one telling the story. When I write these funny stories any jokes I might write aren t my jokes they re Kyle s jokes or Gary s jokes. For that reason, he often pools his comedic skills with the others on the shift.