Fall of the Citizens: A Novel by Eric Thomas

Author:Eric Thomas [Thomas, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political, Thriller
Published: 2012-08-04T04:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-FIVE

If attractiveness is measured on a scale of one to ten, Pamela Brown was a fifteen. She had always known she was different from other girls. The words beautiful and stunning had faded into the wallpaper long ago. Wherever she went stares followed her, and she loved being stared at.

This explained her obsession with being in front of the camera. No family photograph was taken without her jumping in. Friends thought she should be a model or actress but she wasn’t interested. Models and actresses have days when they are not in front of the camera.

She went to broadcasting school only for the piece of paper. Most spend four years slaving over a degree in journalism but most don’t look like Pamela Brown. When you are a fifteen out of ten there are no doors closed to you. Besides, the idea was not to become an award winning journalist, the idea was to be on camera.

Graduates just out of low-rent broadcasting school don’t get jobs immediately. Pamela Brown had the pick of the litter. She took a job in a small market and did the reporter thing for a couple of weeks before she was moved to anchor. People were jealous, of course, but she was used to that. The station that put her in the anchor chair didn’t even bother firing the person she replaced. The news director knew she was going places.

She jumped from market to market gaining celebrity along the way. Her journalism was called trash and fluff but it didn’t matter. When she didn’t anchor she always had a package at the top of the show, because her face on television spiked the numbers. Every assignment she asked for was given to her with little argument.

Some journalists work until they are in their fifties to get to the major market stations, Pamela was there at twenty-five. There were articles about her in trade magazines, asking if she was what had gone wrong in journalism. She didn’t care about the criticism, because Pamela had found the formula. Stand in front of the camera, smile that smile, and she would never stop winning.

She walked through the maze of cubicles at her office in Washington, DC with a single purpose. She had heard that the Citizens were allowing journalists into Detroit for interviews. She wanted this one badly. Scott Pelley’s interview with Max was number one for the week by a mile. The Detroit interviews would be no different. Everyone in the country would be watching. In Pamela’s mind, once she had that many people watching, she would know she had arrived. This was the interview that would finally make her a national star.

Her new boss was Jim Hightower, an affable disaster of a man who sat in an office that was packed with stacked papers. He wore a bow tie, in theory, but it was never tied and hung around his neck indicating some level surrender. He sat behind a glass desk with his hands in his thick but rapidly graying hair.

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