It
was brought to my attention that it would only be fair to write about when a
member of one of our local news teams had me cheering out loud after [ranting] about
the poor quality of many newscasts lately.
Oh yeah, my wife actually came a-runnin’ to see what was going on when
she heard me hollering, “Now, that’s what I want to see!”
What
got me so pumped up happened a few days back as I was watching a weather
segment where [KY3 Chief Meteorologist Ron Hearst] was showing the movement of
a couple of fairly severe thunderstorms in the area. While he was doing so, he noticed a blue text
box in the lower left part of his presentation screen with a message bout 1.75”
hail reportedly falling 10 miles north of Terre Haute, and since Terre Haute is
in Indiana and around 320 miles to the northeast of us, he pointed to the text
box and said that he had no idea why it was there.
Hip!
Hip!! HOORAY!!!
Seriously,
that is all I am looking for! For I know
that none of us are perfect, and I can imagine just how hard it could become to
keep everything straight while doing a live newscast.
Whereas,
what has been happening far too often is no acknowledgement of anything being
wrong! Such as when another member of
the KY3 news team on another broadcast went right on to the next story after reporting
that a bull rider had been bucked off and trampled to death almost immediately
after the chute opened at the beginning of the attempted 8 MINUTE ride at a
rodeo in a town just over the Kansas state line (I think) when the ride is an 8
SECOND one! (Needling someone about
making a mistake like that would make for some great witty banter—don’t you
think?)
Another
recent major misinformation malfunction occurred when the anchor of another station’s
newscast ended the evening with a funny little story, along with footage of the
incident, about a bear checking out the lobby of a ski lodge at [Angel Fire], and
calling it an Albuquerque resort, which would be like calling [The Lodge of Four Seasons] a St. Louis resort. For they
are both around 150 miles away and much closer to other well-known locations
that could serve as a point of reference, such as Taos and Santa Fe, in the
case of Angel Fire.
Alas,
I do not know if this means that the people in charge also don’t have a clue or
that they just don’t care, but local newscasts around here are becoming a
joke. Still, they can serve as a place
to hear about things that can be searched for elsewhere to find out what may be
really going on. So, I’ll keep trying to
watch.
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