Why my local news sucks more than yours.
 

So I'm playing poker while purusing 2+2 and keeping half an eye turned on to my local news station.

Suddenly I hear in the background, "A homemade recipe you can use to make your kids halloween costume flame resistant." I barely noticed these words as they came out of the TV set, yet just enough to try to comprehend this.

I hit rewind on my DVR to make sure I just heard what I thought I heard. Yep, that's it. Why on God's green earth would anybody do this? I wasn't aware that spontaneous combustion was a leading killer of tricker treaters.

I've heard of people putting razors in apples, drugs in candy, and hell, even pedophiles are on the rise. But, for the love of all that's holy, how many kids are getting torched on halloween???

Isn't this going way overboard on safety?

Anyway, if you have any interesting stories of why your local news sucks more than mine, I'd love to hear em.

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jack o' lanterns + cheap plastic?

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All local news sucks. I didn't know anybody still watched it.

"Tonight at 11: What's in your drinking water? You'll be shocked at what we found! Could this sexual predator be living in your neighborhood? A house burns down, killing eleven children--could this happen to your home?..."

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Isn't this going way overboard on safety?

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Do you want the terrorists to abduct your children on Halloween and set them on fire? Do you? Why do you hate freedom?

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if there is 1 day each year where children go up in flames, it's halloween.

superman cape + jack-o-lantern = flaming 8 year old

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superman cape + jack-o-lantern = flaming 8 year old

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I wanted to post a picture of a gay kid in response to this, so I googled "gay kid."
No such luck. Maybe I can find a young looking teenager... "gay teenager"...
OH GOD MY EYES WHAT HAVE I DONE

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superman cape + jack-o-lantern = flaming 8 year old

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I wanted to post a picture of a gay kid in response to this, so I googled "gay kid."
No such luck. Maybe I can find a young looking teenager... "gay teenager"...
OH GOD MY EYES WHAT HAVE I DONE

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Hahaha.

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superman cape + jack-o-lantern = flaming 8 year old

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I wanted to post a picture of a gay kid in response to this, so I googled "gay kid."
No such luck. Maybe I can find a young looking teenager... "gay teenager"...
OH GOD MY EYES WHAT HAVE I DONE

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You are now on a watch list somewhere.

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superman cape + jack-o-lantern = flaming 8 year old

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I wanted to post a picture of a gay kid in response to this, so I googled "gay kid."
No such luck. Maybe I can find a young looking teenager... "gay teenager"...
OH GOD MY EYES WHAT HAVE I DONE

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You are now on the mailing list for washington page job offers.

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FYP

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even pedophiles are on the rise

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Your local news station must be quite convincing, regardless of their other shortcomings.

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All local news sucks. I didn't know anybody still watched it.

"Tonight at 11: What's in your drinking water? You'll be shocked at what we found! Could this sexual predator be living in your neighborhood? A house burns down, killing eleven children--could this happen to your home?..."

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Im just guessing here, but do you live in Atlanta? If so, then that's WSB...news you can count on.. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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My local news had one of its news reporters review a hotdog cooker (those things at the gas station), for one its stories. It is a terrible station, and its lead anchor resigned a month ago or so. He was very good, but probably got a feeling that local news is terrible now (although he did not say anything like that while resigning).

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I'm always wondering who's watching local news...it has to be the absolute worst stuff on TV. I have a friend who just quit her job as an on-air reporter for Channel 8 in Las Vegas...she was there two years and was only making $40,000! Crazy.

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I'm always wondering who's watching local news...it has to be the absolute worst stuff on TV. I have a friend who just quit her job as an on-air reporter for Channel 8 in Las Vegas...she was there two years and was only making $40,000! Crazy.

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Old people. That's why they spend 13 minutes on weather. Old people are obsessed with it for some reason.

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Old people. That's why they spend 13 minutes on weather. Old people are obsessed with it for some reason.

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I don't see how local news hasn't reached critical mass yet. A long-time reporter with a local station gave us a talk once and pointed out the expansion of local news over the years. Locally the networks are airing news from like 4 or 5AM until 7AM, then most of them have Noon, 5, 6, and 10 broadcasts - and this last broadcast is usually 35-40 minutes and bumps back the late night shows, even though reporters will tell you there's really only like 7-8 minutes of actual "news" per show, so it could easily go just a half an hour.

The byproduct of this expansion is that it is an increasingly sh1tty industry to work in, as the hours get longer. Plus, no way I'd want to be either a morning or evening anchor - the morning ones have to get up at like 2AM and the evening ones apparently get to the studio by like 2PM and are there until at least 11PM. No thanks.

If there is one improvement in the industry over the years it's that the broads have gotten a lot hotter. There's probably a lot of 50 YO unemployed meteorolgists sitting around who didn't see this coming.

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Posted a few months ago...but if you missed it, here is a shining example of my hometown news.
Leprachaun

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The local news here is probably average at best, and we have the misfortune of getting our US channels (ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX) from Spokane, Washington.

I don't watch their local news anymore, but 20 years ago before CNN and other all news channels I did. Nothing more interesting than watching high school football highlites from a city you've never been to, and in another country.

At least I know how to pronounce Spokane and Gonzaga correctly. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Your local news brings all the boys to the yard.

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The local news here is probably average at best, and we have the misfortune of getting our US channels (ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX) from Spokane, Washington.

I don't watch their local news anymore, but 20 years ago before CNN and other all news channels I did. Nothing more interesting than watching high school football highlites from a city you've never been to, and in another country.

At least I know how to pronounce Spokane and Gonzaga correctly. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Heh, this is great. I used to work at KHQ, I always forgot that we were seen in Canada.

Someday I'll upload all of the bloopers I have saved up, and you guys can see some real local news suckitude.

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Nothing more interesting than watching high school football highlites from a city you've never been to, and in another country.

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Indeed. I always flip by and they're showing highschool and college sports all news hour.

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Someday I'll upload all of the bloopers I have saved up, and you guys can see some real local news suckitude.

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I would love to see those.

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superman cape + jack-o-lantern = flaming 8 year old

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I wanted to post a picture of a gay kid in response to this, so I googled "gay kid."
No such luck. Maybe I can find a young looking teenager... "gay teenager"...
OH GOD MY EYES WHAT HAVE I DONE

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You are now on a watch list somewhere.

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Seriously, that thought is what's keeping me from looking.

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Local news in the Bay Area is very good.

Maybe it is because we actually have news, whereas most other cities don't and mostly just reports what goes on here, the center of the universe.


just a guess

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Is it just me or are there a lot of flaming homosexuals on local news stations?

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Uh, I have you beat.

One of our local stations "caught" members of the University hockey team drinking underage at a bar. GASP! PEOPLE UNDERAGE DRINK?!? AND MINORS DRINK AT BARS AROUND UNIVERSITIES?!?!?!!?!

The, this yeah, they go around and follow drunk kids to parties, then call the cops on the parties. Think about that for a second; the television news station is breaking up parties. Completely victimless crimes, but they videotape it and put it on the news.

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One of our local stations "caught" members of the University hockey team drinking underage at a bar. GASP! PEOPLE UNDERAGE DRINK?!? AND MINORS DRINK AT BARS AROUND UNIVERSITIES?!?!?!!?!

The, this yeah, they go around and follow drunk kids to parties, then call the cops on the parties. Think about that for a second; the television news station is breaking up parties. Completely victimless crimes, but they videotape it and put it on the news.


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That's pretty damn good, maybe not as good at the 4 part saga of the kid caught jerking off in the public library, but good none the less.

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superman cape + jack-o-lantern = flaming 8 year old

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I wanted to post a picture of a gay kid in response to this, so I googled "gay kid."
No such luck. Maybe I can find a young looking teenager... "gay teenager"...
OH GOD MY EYES WHAT HAVE I DONE

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You are now on a watch list somewhere.

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Seriously, that thought is what's keeping me from looking.

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Is it the ONLY thing keeping you from looking? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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All local news sucks. I didn't know anybody still watched it.

"Tonight at 11: What's in your drinking water? You'll be shocked at what we found! Could this sexual predator be living in your neighborhood? A house burns down, killing eleven children--could this happen to your home?..."

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I love these. Opie & Anthony do a bit where they have listeners send in the "scary" news-teases from their local affiliates...so far, their hall of fame is:
"One city wants to put all its registered sex offenders in one 3-block radius. Could it be next to your house?"...and my favorite, the wonderfully attention grabbing "Could hiccups be a sign of cancer? Stay tuned."

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At work tonight, the tv in the lunchroom was set to the local news, so I had to endure some.

The weatherman pointed to the current temperature, and actually used the words, "extreme winter conditions."

It was 46 degrees when he said that. I guess we've got a rookie weatherman from Costa Rica.