MEDIA

 Newsmen and Reporters Who Go to the Wall for the Truth

Special Ability: Credibility

The ability to be believed: by your viewers, by the police, by important and powerful people

Career Skills: Awareness/Notice, Composition, Education (Journalism), Persuasion, Human Perception, Social, Streetwise, Photo & Film, Interview

Composition is the ability to write a story.

Persuasion is the ability of the Media to talk someone into telling their secrets or to get them to believe your story.

Human Perception is the ability to pick up non-verbal cues.

Social refers to the ability to handle oneself with proper etiquette for various situations.

Photo & Film is the technical ability to operate cameras and video equipment.

Interview is the skill of eliciting anecdotal information from a subject.

For other skill descriptions please see Skills.

Playing the Media in FFRP:

Medias are always looking for the next big scoop. If a player knows that you are a media, even if their character is unaware of your role, they will be more likely to tell you things and believe whatever you tell them. However, remember that credibility is earned, and if you lie too often you will lose that skill.

Subcatagories of Media role:

Shit Sniffer

Usually a beginning Media or an old school hardnose, these Medias specialize in digging up the dirt on public personalities.

Paparazzi

Video and still photographers who make a living snapping shots of celebs, preferably in compromising situations.

Triple B

Not-so-bright but highly attractive news personalities who dress up the scene as they read from a teleprompter. The name comes from a late 20th century song with the phrase "Bubble-headed bleach blond" used to describe media personalities.

Earnings:

Stringer	Staff Reporter	Section Editor	Producer	Personality	Nat'l Personality
1,000/month	1,200/month	3,000/month	5,000/month	7,000/month	10,000/month

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