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Date Posted: 07:49:03 02/16/12 Thu
Author: Islandgirl
Subject: The reporter on "NCIS" (vague spoilers for 2/14 ep)


We've kind of talked here before about how the lifestyles depicted for various professions/stages of life on TV shows is wildy more extravagant and affluent than what people in those professions/at those ages could actually afford (i.e. all the twentysomethings in "Friends" living in fabulous New York City apartments).

There was an example on this week's "NCIS" that really struck home for me. They had a newspaper reporter who worked for the Baltimore paper and was Tony's ex-fiancee. She was a single mom who lived in a fabulous two-story house and had a nanny for her child!! Sorry, but I'm a newspaper reporter and I assure you this is *NOT* the kind of lifestyle a reporter's salary buys!

Now, granted, the city I live in is smaller than Baltimore. But I have several friends who work for the Austin newspaper (a city which is bigger than Balitmore) and I know they don't have fancy two-story homes and nannies for their kids! They're lucky if they can afford a house (as opposed to an apartment or mobile home) at all.

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