Most of us know this- but it’s unusual for us to hear from someone inside who is being HONEST about what they see..
It's not shocking to me as well--I work in the same industry that he does. Ordinarily I tend to bite my tongue on FR, because I never know when a coworker might get a wild hair and find out what I might say.
Quick story: one night we were in the middle of an afternoon newscast when our producer wrote a story that read "an SUV slammed into a telephone pole..." and then went on to the remainder of the story. At this point I'd had enough. Speaking while thinking, I said "could we quit saying that SUV's drive themselves into objects for once?" Our producer (who I know well enough to give him grief for his mistakes) was annoyed enough to say "yeah, and I'm going to take writing advice from an engineer."
Without missing a beat, I said "personification is for children's books, not newscasts."