

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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