September 3rd, 2010
04:51 PM ET
Discovery takes holiday weekend to healDiscovery Communications employees are slowly trying to find their way back to normalcy. THR reported that Discovery’s building was open for business Thursday, a day after a hostage crisis erupted at the Silver Spring, Maryland, edifice, but Discovery spokeswoman Tammy Shea adds that employees have been encouraged to use the holiday weekend as a time for healing. “Right now we are wholly focused on the recovery and healing of our employees with counselors available, and we’ve told them to take today through the holiday weekend off to focus on that and to be with their families,” she told CNN. “We will get back in the saddle on Tuesday, and we’ll still have counselors on hand to help everyone recover.” |
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First, if people STOP hating people, STOP being pro-abortion, START supporting human life from conception then the people at Discovery would've been reasonably safe to begin with.
Now about Shark Week. We have very real great white sharks off the coast of Massachusetts. People are urged not to go in the water. Personally, it's been so hot, I'd take my chances swimming with them...to a point. "Mr. Jaws" (aka Bruce) has been on all summer. I thought art was supposed to represent life, not the other way around.
I hate sharks. Some one should put the employees in a shark tank.
Really guys?????? A disturbed psychopath takes people hostage with guns and bombs and your discussing Shark Week in this post......so sad.
it's most considerato of the Discovery to value their employees most.
they clearly know that it is always their talented staff who make Discovery such a wonderful program.
God bless these people.
do take a good rest in holiday.
it's most considerato of the Discovery to value their employees most.
they clearly know that it is always their talents staff who make Discovery such a wonderful program.
God bless these people.
do take a good rest in holiday.
Discovery should take the time to evaluate its priorities. The gunman may have been crazy, but he wasn't stupid. He had a valid point.
I think the point was over shadowed by the gun and Hostage taking and yes he was stupid. He changed nothing except now he is dead everything else is the same. Yeah there are a lot people in the world and unless they start firing nukes or a Plague comes nothing is going to stop it.
Best wishes for a peaceful weekend and a full recovery for all involved.
People who work in television work nights, weekends and holidays. Modern broadcasting runs 24 hours each day every day of the week all year long. When you run several channels out of one facility you can't just shut it down indefinitely. They would quickly go out of business.
I want to wish all of the staff at Discovery all the best.
Sean, the Discovery Communications building is not the place from where the shows air or are made. It's the corporate headquarters where the producers works, along with the consumer products, the web folks, the ad sales people, etc. Outside production companies contract with DCI to create the programming that you see.
@Apoc obviously you haven't watched Shark Week As they've always had at least one or two new shows everyday of Shark week, every year since it started. What a dork... you've definitely jumped the Shark, or missed the jump and have fallen in the water,,,, ......
Nice... give the employees the holiday weekend off. Do they usually NOT get holiday weekends off?
Yes, we'd like you to heal... but be here by 9:00 AM on Tuesday, no excuses.
Shark week is a waste of time, they show the same shows a year later. Nothing new about sharks, same episodes....wow. The only thing new about shark week are the annoying commercials telling us about shark week.
Speaking of Shark Week, every year a gigantic, inflatable shark is affixed to the building to "celebrate" shark week. It basically looks like the tail is hanging out of one end of the building, the head out the opposite end, and fins on either side- like it's stuck into the building. It was up this year until just a week or two ago. It would have been kind of funny if there was all this news footage of the building with a giant shark sticking out of it.
I have a whole album on my Facebook of the shark this year, and now one of pics i took outside during the hostage thingy. It looks like Shark Week fueled the rage. haha
I blame all of this on Shark Week.
I know, right! When I found out, I was like.. "Please tell me its because of Shark Week." Imagine my disappointment when I found out he went to the wrong station.
now Bravo can do a show on the Discovery Channel