ridiculous tv news story

[LoveTrains]

OMG, there is the most ridiculous story on my local news right now.

It's a woman who got the flu vaccine who got the flu and is saying that it's not right that she got sick and got the vaccine, why did she waste her money on the vaccine, etc.

I want to hulk rage at the stupid tv news producers.

[amity]

I can relate. I am lucky enough to live in the second smallest tv news market in the country. Our local news is like a bad Saturday Night Live skit every single night. It's so bad that its kind of awesome. The lead story tonight was about a local farmer who had hay stolen from his field.

[Deleted]

I'm pretty sure that hay story was on NPR.

[tacocat]

Morning news: Traffic, weather, occasional thing that matters
Evening news: The most depressing crap you have ever seen

[rubytue]

Would you rather have stories about hay theft or the local body count? Our local news consists of when and where the latest shootings and/or stabbings were. Last night's 6pm news covered the 4 shootings the night before. Hay theft and crazy flu lady sound better. Plus, the PP is right, there was an NPR story on hay thefts a week or 2 ago. They made it sound interesting.

[phunluvin82]

Jan 13, 2013 9:42:57 GMT -5 rubytue said:

Would you rather have stories about hay theft or the local body count? Our local news consists of when and where the latest shootings and/or stabbings were. Last night's 6pm news covered the 4 shootings the night before. Hay theft and crazy flu lady sound better. Plus, the PP is right, there was an NPR story on hay thefts a week or 2 ago. They made it sound interesting.

I was thinking the same thing...local news here is so depressing. How many people got killed and mugged today, and where.

We are starting to get all the 'soft' news about all the Mardi Gras krewes and what they are doing for their parades and balls this year, parade schedules, etc. It's a nice reprieve from the daily body count.

[jackie011]

I get what you're saying about the hard news vs the soft news, but we were dying the other day watching our local 10:00 news. The reporter wrote "FLU" on a paper towel. He held it up near his head while he read the copy, then they cut to clips of people getting flu shots. Cut back to the reporter who now unrolled the rest of the paper towels to see that he actually had 8 paper towels with the word "FLU" on each one. This was his compelling visual to tell viewers that there are either 8 times as many flu cases or they are giving out 8 times as many flu vaccines. Effective as I can't even tell you what the heck he meant!!

I just think it's hilarious in this day of ipads and crazy visual graphics that a grown man is standing in a newsroom holding a paper towel as his visual aid! (FWIW, we live in a town of about 400,000 people)

[Willis Jackson]

DH and I were laughing at the weather guy on Christmas who was SO INTO the snow we were going to get the next day. He was obviously pretty low on the totem pole if he was working on Christmas and this was his big moment.

[Deleted]

I'll paint a picture for you: During coverage of the Olympics our local news bought 5 styrofoam wreath rings from a craft store and spray painted them and hung them in a row of three above a row of two. No interconnecting. They weren't even touching.

We also have a 3rd string weather person on Sunday nights who reports weather, 'coming in from the left'. No east, west, north, or south. Just the left.

[livinitup]

My local morning news dedicates daily reports for traffic that usually take a solid 5-7 minutes (for each morning program cycle) for them to say there are no traffic delays.

Everyday.

[amity]

We had a tornado come relatively close to town about a year ago and the second string weather guy was on duty. He was in full on panic mode. Eventually the storm knocked out power at the station. They lost the video feed but their sound was still transmitting. You could hear them all scrambling to get under desks and hide and the weatherman is basically freaking out and ranting. The best quote of the whole night was, "I AM FROM FUCKING CANADA, I DON'T DO TORNADOS!"

Also, when the feed came back on, they were all disheveled and a mess. It was amazing. I am only sad that I did not think to record it. I keep thinking it will show up on youtube and go viral.

(Also, no one was hurt in the tornado or this would not be as funny)