A new low for local news: Virginia anchor laughs doing story on three dead

[mike311gd]

Reading the last few posts reminded me of this clip.

 

[Write-brained]

What in all heck is wrong with WSLS? In the last two, three years they've had two weathercasters admit to heroin addiction, one got fired and the other recovered only to be fired for showing off his twig and berries on a myspace site. They also had a former newscaster get fired at his next station for getting into a fistfight at the site of a report he was doing. And now this. Mercy.

Must not pay a lot.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

shirt happens.
And, sometimes, people get fired behind it.

 

[Birdscribe]

Where's Don Henley when you need him?

 

[Write-brained]

Where's Don Henley when you need him?

Is it bad that I like that song? Always thought it was pretty clever.

 

[Birdscribe]

Where's Don Henley when you need him?

Is it bad that I like that song? Always thought it was pretty clever.

Not only is it not bad, it shows taste and intellect. It's a brilliant song.

Henley wrote it after watching local TV news here in LA. There was a former anchor on the ABC O&O named Christine Lund who was allegedly the model for the immortal line "The bubble-headed bleach-blonde comes on at 5.... She can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye."

 

[Write-brained]

Where's Don Henley when you need him?

Is it bad that I like that song? Always thought it was pretty clever.

Not only is it not bad, it shows taste and intellect. It's a brilliant song.

Henley wrote it after watching local TV news here in LA. There was a former anchor on the ABC O&O named Christine Lund who was allegedly the model for the immortal line "The bubble-headed bleach-blonde comes on at 5.... She can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye."

What's funny is that song came on while repeatedly getting knocked in the shins with my daughter's purple golf ball during a putt-putt game this weekend ... been in my head ever since.

 

[Claws for Concern]

The anchor's e-mail address is shown under his name at the time of this report. I hope his inbox is flooded with angry viewer e-mails.