"Local" TV News (565 hits)
Category: NewsRating: 1 on 11 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by BigDaddy (View user info) at 2005-06-23 12:33:46 EDT
Am I the only one who thinks that "Local" TV news is a pile of crap through which you must sift in order to actually get information?
It's not enough that they feed us murders, rapes, drug busts and such other law enforcement freakshows, so they give us the same crap but from other states in which the story has no relation to our local area. IF one of the perps or victims had local ties that were put in the story, then I could understand it.
I live in MN and the likelihood of an alligator snatching my dog off there river bank or lake shore are remote at best. (A muskie doing that is more likely.) So why does my local 10PM news show crap like that? Is the freakshow put on by local law enforcement that threadbare that day or are there lazy newsroom workerbees that day?
ARGL!
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Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-06-23 18:15:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Sinistral (user info) at 2005-06-23 13:23:34 (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 for saying "ARGL!"
Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2005-06-23 18:10:32 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Deidra (user info) at 2005-06-23 17:53:10 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by BigDaddyV2.0 (user info) at 2005-06-23 14:03:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
"and let's not forget that now that its summer there are sharks lurking about on just about every street corner"
GAK!
Remember the summer of 2001? The news was so boring. There were real shark sighting stories both on the national and "local" news in most cities. Now WTF does a guy in Little Rock, Omaha, Fargo, Memphis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Cheyenne, Denver, Atlanta, or anywhere else, have to fear from a shark attack in his hometown (provided he's not drunk and at the local zoo/aquarium after hours)???
Submitted by Sinistral (user info) at 2005-06-23 13:23:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 for saying "ARGL!"
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2005-06-23 13:08:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by DonkeyOnTheEdge (user info) at 2005-06-23 12:36:39 (#)
Ranking: 1
The "local" news sucks because you live in Minnesota.
Submitted by ellsmall (user info) at 2005-06-23 12:50:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
It's not News, it's SomeOtherShit-dot-com.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2005-06-23 12:45:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I love the hooks that they put out there to get you to watch the show. I swear when I was a kid, they did real news briefs that were actual news briefs not commercials for the news.
and yea, the whole "something awful happened in a place you've never heard of" thing is over the top
They did a story here not too long ago about how more people die of hypothermia than dehydration IN THE DESERT. The nearest desert is a 5 hour plane ride away.
and let's not forget that now that its summer there are sharks lurking about on just about every street corner
Submitted by DonkeyOnTheEdge (user info) at 2005-06-23 12:36:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
The "local" news sucks because you live in Minnesota.
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2005-06-23 12:36:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
ask rad about the workerbees. What is MN?
Submitted by transformer (user info) at 2005-06-23 12:34:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
word up