How bad is local TV news?

Each time I've seen this, I've been laughing at Les's insistence on what he thinks is the correct pronunciation of MISTER Rodwigweez's name (not Chi-Chi, which would be a girl's name) ... and I've missed the other joke, that hopefully the nine-under-par golfer "will play up to par next competition."

 

Thank God there were no sportscasters involved - if that happened at the main Foxy Lady in Providence and the usual number of Boston pro athletes were in the house...

 

It is damn near criminal what they've done to that station. They had a lot of the best, most professional people in town and decided to chase away nearly all of them. When a Fox O&O that spends 2/3 of the time jizzing American Idol is the market leader, you know all hope is lost.

 

Memo to TV news:

This should be your weather report: "The high tomorrow will be 79, the low 56. There will be a 30 percent chance of rain, and winds will be 10-15 mph."

The other 21 minutes and 30 seconds should be devoted to news.

 

I haven't voluntarily watched local TV news in nearly two years, and then only because I was trying to find out, after the fact, the cause of a massive power outage in the area.

But as a former newspaper editor, I had a couple of run-ins with local TV reporters. One was inquiring about a university-promoted program in which students pay their own way to join two professors in an educational trip to Tibet (or Mongolia, or some such place). This reporter was looking for something, anything, sure there was evil deeds being performed. "C'mon AlleyAllen, tell me the truth. Is the university fucking with taxpayer money to take this trip?"

"Uh, no douchebag, the students are having to pay their own way."

"But isn't the university getting them special group rates?"

"Yeah, I believe so."

"Well, there you go!"

:

 

Yeah, because NO ONE else on the planet ever qualifies for a group rate.

I'd only watch my local TV news if it was some sort of hostage situation.

As in, *I* was tied to a chair, and some dude had a gun to my head, forcing me to watch it.

 

Did that really happen? Wow. Just wow.

 

Thought that was just the case in Pittsburgh.

The way the local stations have a boner for everything Steelers, I wouldn't be surprised if some reporter flagged down Big Ben -- apparently, they don't know his actual name -- for a comment on the death of former PA governor Ray Shafer.

 

No. Not in my market. At least not to my knowledge, anyway.

 

i don't know. haven't watched more than three consecutive minutes of TV news in about six years.

although it's kinda suspicious that one of the lead anchors down here (south florida) is named dwight lauderdale.

 

They should just do what everyone else does -- get their stories out of the newspaper.

 

Trying going from a newspaper to a TV station ... I'm slowing building a brick wall in my office. One day I'm going to dive head first into it.

BTW, we they do four minutes of weather off the top of the 5 (Central).