Not a big enough rant to warrant the BBQ Pit. My local news here in Columbus just ran a short story where they went to North Carolina (or got footage from a CBS affiliate in NC) and interviewed 3 retired women who went to the mall because they felt cooped up from the snow and cold. The big quote? “It’s boring at home; you can only sweep the floor so many times.”
Yes, that’s right, my local news seriously ran a story whose ONLY point was “Three old ladies in North Carolina were bored yesterday.”
I wonder whether these old ladies would like to come and visit me. They might enjoy the challenge of my floor.
That’s not stupid – it’s an accurate report of what’s going on (or not going on).
You want Stupid News, go look up some of the inaccurate reporting people are bewailing in Great Debates or the BBQ Pit.
What’s really disturbing is that if you were watching CBS, then you were watching what is probably the best of the local news shows in Columbus. I remember the ABC affiliate would check in with the weather guy’s dog (who is incidentally, now on CBS (the weather guy, not the dog.))
What is it in local news broadcasters that makes them think an average snowstorm is so dammed interesting? Plus, why did they go to NC to get that story? I am bored being cooped up the weather here!
This just in: Three women go to mall. Film at 11.
Lame!
It was about 6 years ago that we had a pretty harsh winter. (Unlike the rest of the winters!) In early April we saw a day that was in the mid 60s. The next day was in the low 80s. And sunny. And beautiful. And glorious.
“Will we finally be getting a break from the heat wave? Watch Fox News tonight at ten.”
Well, I live in NC and I expect shortly I will be seeing a meta-story about how the three old ladies were interviewed. They will then interview a fourth person who has relatives in OH and a fifth person that once read a book about OH.
Did the report look like this?
At least your local news covers more than local crime and the city council.
I miss the days when local news actually covered what people are doing in the community. Although three older ladies in the mall is a little TMI. 
My favorite headline ever was something like “Dog recovering after being shot.” It was seriously a two paragraph article about a dog that had been shot, and was recovering. It wasn’t even about a cop dog. It was just some random dog that was spotted out in the middle of nowhere.
If you believe the news media out here, we had 47 snowstorms last week. This seemed a bit odd to me, as when I would go to the window to see the snow I might see a grand total of two snowflakes.
Oh, and when I was a kid I caught cabin fever during a snowstorm and decided to have a cookout when it was only 6 degrees farenheit. How come nobody did a story about me?
That’s it, I’m calling my local station and demanding justice.
Everyone I’ve ever met in NC either is from Ohio or has relatives there. I know this because I am from Ohio and they tell me. It’s creepy!
At least you don’t have this stuff
What… the… fuck?! :eek:
The whistles go Whoo whoo!
I am not normally a fan of vandalism and vigilante justice, but I think I could make an exception in that case.
I would have thought the muffler noise ordinances would cover this. There’s several mufflers that are illegal (most places) because of the roar.
But the news station covering the whistles wasn’t all that stupid, just the whistles.
Oh, and that’s pretty darn old, by the way.
I’ve long believed that The News has an IQ requirement for their employees - if it’s over 75, you’re out.
Last week I saw a good one, during a promo for a local station’s morning show:
“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be in outer space? We’ll tell you about a museum where you can touch a rock from Mars - and one from The Moon!” :dubious:
Besides the glaringly obvious problem with the logic here, I have an additional, minor nitpick: shouldn’t they have reversed the order of the rocks? It seems to me the Mars rock would be the more impressive of the two.
Our local stations are all based in DC - you know, the capitol of the Free World - that DC!
Let’s see - there are wars, there’s the goings-on in Haiti, new Senator from Mass being sworn in, heck, we’ve even got a hockey team that’s now won 11 games in a row. Sunday and Monday, the news was dominated by the panda from the Washington Zoo returning to China.
I will grant that preservation of the panda is important. I will grant that the panda cub has been a huge attraction at the zoo. I like pandas. But, doggone, they went on and on and on and on and on… Frankly, I was glad this big snowstorm is moving through the area - the news readers finally shut up about the panda!!
The local news here usually only lasts about 5 minutes. The rest is filler from throughout the world. The other day, I turned on the news for my 5 minutes of local and all they were showing was the installation of some bishop in a local ?basilica? thingy. They were speaking in hushed, awed tones. WTF! I doubt that that incident was really newsworthy for the majority of their viewing audience. The news is stupid all over.