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I hate this. I hate looking at the same two videos of the bomb going off that the news channels keep repeating. I don’t want to see the kid’s picture, I don’t want to hear about how many people lost their limbs, the whole thing is sick and way to close to Acushnet Massachusetts for me feel comfortable with. Although I would very much like to say my prayers and ignore all of the feed coming from the race, I can’t. the bombings were the sole topic of discussion on this morning’s show. Michael Rock debated presenting other news but it would have been a “dick move” to not focus primarily on yesterday’s events. I would have preferred he was a dick, we could have talked about Justin Beiber spitting on his neighbor and listened to Ke$ha, but no. I said earlier how this job is half entertainer half news anchor, but today was all news anchor. There wasn’t much of any new information we had that everyone didn’t already know about. I guess we were reporting news just to give people a chance to process it rather than becoming aware of it. The TV in the studio was on ABC news as it usually is and was looping the same videos taken by iphones and the pictures of a bloody Boylston St. It didn’t seem right to give away prizes so that was called off, I put the certificates back in the binder for tomorrow. There was nothing worth editing for promo use, so I left a bit early. Good, I thought, I really wanted to get out of there. Have you ever been forced to listen to a conversation you were not a fan of several times. Every hour it was time for the news, and even though none of it was new, Michael, JR, and Larry had to again present and react to the occurrences. You kind of felt helpless, the DJs had no choice but to be the bearer of bad news. They feel just as bad as every listener so I guess this morning was about sharing that experience of shock and confusion.  A woman called in this morning with a song request. She thought it would be nice to play Where is the Love by the Black Eyed Peas. Now there was nothing I could do at the station, as we learned last week, song requests are politely ignored.  I did, however, agree with her and think it would have been something nice to hear.