Behind the scenes at FOX TV News

Do you see that sofa on which the TV anchormen/women sit? It looks like it's comfortable, spacious, and part of a huge office that probably overlooks the Hudson River.

Guess again.

That sofa is so small that if any one of the three "anchors" move a few inches they'll either fall off or bump into their co-host.

And the room is really a small platform surrounded by teleprompters and cameras, behind which lies a darkened area populated by more machinery and the technicians who run them.

Such is the world of TV news.

World events are magnified and amplified, and mundane problems are projected as critical life events, all to the purpose of creating pressure and popular interest.

Indeed, my four-minute stint yesterday on FOX & FRIENDS demonstrated what a pressure cooker these anchors inhabit.

They speak at a breakneck pace, don't stop to make eye contact or connection, hurrying to get the news out and move on. They're in a locomotive at high speed. No time for thoughts, feelings or people.

Except behind the scenes.

That's where you find, what I might call, the beautiful people: The make-up artist, hairdresser, assistants and assistants under them. The eager young cadre of helpers who get to work at 4 am so that the show can get on the road on time, every morning, every day of the week. They work when you and I play, sleep when we begin our evening, take time off when the rest of the working world is in the office.

They make up the infrastructure of that artificial TV world.

Someone should do a show about them. But more than 4 minutes worth.