first of all when you break the news that the car the prisoner stole was discovered, then you can say it’s breaking news. But you’re not allowed to interrupt shows every 30 minutes the rest of the day to say BREAKING NEWS.
second of all, you’re supposed to be professional reporters. Learn your fucking grammar!! A person doesn’t usually feel badly! He feels Bad when something goes awry! He feels badly when his hands stop working.
Third of all, it’s not helping me to show a picture of a prisoner with short hair then show another one right beside it with a photoshopped bald head. and that’s the only change. It just cheezy and stupid that have an “artist’s rendering”
Fourth, thanks for the audio of what the gun shots sounded like. Next time let me hear the real thing, but hearing a reporty say “boom boom boom… boom boom” doesn’t really do a lot for me.
You think it’s better any place else? Local TV news sucks a LOT. Just flash and gash, if it bleeds it leads, and then a fuzzy puppy story to wrap it all up.
Lame shit. And I say this as someone who has worked in television news for 14 years.
The local news here in SC isn’t anything to brag about either. Their latest stunt was to interrupt Survivor on Thursday night with a “Breaking News” bulletin about a local old mill that had caught fire. Granted, since a few homes near the area had to be evacuated and that was something that people needed to know about, I can understand why they thought interrupting Survivor for a couple of minutes was a good idea. What I don’t understand is why they had to then turn to a phone interview with a local resident who lived down the street from the flaming mill and ask her inane questions like “What do you see when you look out your window right now?” Answer-"Smoke…and flames. Lots of flames. " and then proceed to talk to her for the next five minutes asking the same sort of stupid questions. :smack:
I Love Me, Vol. I. Honestly? Yes, yes, I do think it’s better in other places. Atlanta’s local news is a HUGE market with at least five or six local news stations including hypercompetitive CNN, all operating in the same six county metropolitan area. Atlanta adoped the “If it bleeds, it leads” attitude waaaaay back in the mid-80s when news trucks covered most local killings in Atlanta housing projects and Freaknik was still going strong.
When i first moved to the US i was convinced that i must have had the terrible misfortune to land in the city with the worst television news in the nation. Subsequent travels have convinced me, however, that it’s pretty much this bad everywhere.
Although the local news in San Francisco seems, to me at least, to be somewhat better than average.
For me, the local radio stations can be just as bad. They broke in with BREAKING NEWS (complete with the serious drum beat) that…Horrors!
The US Olympic Basketball team did not make it to the finals!
Yuck. Ever since that bright sunny Tuesday morning in September, about, oh, three and a half years ago, I can’t hear BREAKING NEWS without having my heart jump into my throat.
The thing is, no one knows which stories will turn out to be earth-shattering, life-changing, historical events and which ones won’t. So, to be safe, they have to report on everything.
The stations here love them some breaking weather news. Everytime it begins to thunder just a bit hard, we get Dave Brown and his trusty Viper mode radar. At least I think Viper mode’s on channel 5. I try to avoid Channel 3 because of Mike Matthews, possibly the worst reporter ever. And if it starts snowing, boy howdy.
-Lil
I think I’ve ranted about local news stations in Atlanta before. The haven’t gotten any better. But you should watch, because IT. JUST. MIGHT. SAVE. YOUR. CHILD’S. LIFE!
I’m afraid you must be a little confused. “Reporters” work for newspapers. Those things you see on the tube are called “Faces” or somewhat puzzlingly “Talent”.
My favorite was when Channel 5 used to do Sunday night news stories that tied-in to that evenings X-Files episode. “Aural projection - myth or mystery?”
In Atlanta, both Fox (channel 5) and NBC (channel 11) do that. I’m sure ABC (channel 2) is not immune, although I haven’t witnessed anything from them.
That’s why I hardly watch the news anymore, except for the weather. If I want entertainment, I watch a show. If I want news, I want news, dammit. What happened to honest to goodness news?
