I
could write a book on the media coverage of Ferguson this past week. But,
suffice it to say I have never seen so much misinformation and fact errors in
reporting by out of town and national news media. And there are some St.
Louis media outlets who don't do news who've used the situation to send
amateurs into a crisis. Hopefully, this story has just about run its
course and the reporters who report on it every day will be allowed to present
a clear picture of what has and is actually transpiring.
Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
August 18, 2014
November 28, 2009
Hilarious TV Program
The funniest thing I have seen this holiday weekend was on TV Thursday night. While visiting family a local TV station "newscast" came on the channel they had been watching. This particular station bills itself as "Newschannel 5". What a joke.
The local talking head came on and did a story, no scratch that. The talking head came on and did a two minute infomercial about the importance of "Black Friday" to local retailers. And he ended his pitch by urging the viewers to get started earlier. The producer of this comedy then put up a graphic with the names of stores that would open very early. This list included retailers who advertise on the local channel. The list did not contain the names of hundreds of other stores that were also opening early the next morning who did not advertise on this Gannett owned TV station.
The station then ran the obligatory Thanksgiving Day cliche about local food shelters feeding the needy. It could have been handled in a 15 second reader, but instead this joke of a station spent more than two minutes showing video of people serving food and a bunch of bums eating dinner. They even interviewed a how should I put it...a colorful character. He uttered some non comprehensible response to "what do you think about this nice dinner" type of question.
And then the funniest segment of the evening was watching some family's football game from earlier in the day. I have no idea who these wannabes were but the station spent time and money to send a photographer to this backyard pickup game and then inflicted it on their audience.
If you missed it don't worry. This kind of crap runs nightly on KSDK TV only in St. Louis and you will be subjected to it repeatedly if you waste your time watching the "local news". Yep, it is the funniest thing I've seen all weekend.
The local talking head came on and did a story, no scratch that. The talking head came on and did a two minute infomercial about the importance of "Black Friday" to local retailers. And he ended his pitch by urging the viewers to get started earlier. The producer of this comedy then put up a graphic with the names of stores that would open very early. This list included retailers who advertise on the local channel. The list did not contain the names of hundreds of other stores that were also opening early the next morning who did not advertise on this Gannett owned TV station.
The station then ran the obligatory Thanksgiving Day cliche about local food shelters feeding the needy. It could have been handled in a 15 second reader, but instead this joke of a station spent more than two minutes showing video of people serving food and a bunch of bums eating dinner. They even interviewed a how should I put it...a colorful character. He uttered some non comprehensible response to "what do you think about this nice dinner" type of question.
And then the funniest segment of the evening was watching some family's football game from earlier in the day. I have no idea who these wannabes were but the station spent time and money to send a photographer to this backyard pickup game and then inflicted it on their audience.
If you missed it don't worry. This kind of crap runs nightly on KSDK TV only in St. Louis and you will be subjected to it repeatedly if you waste your time watching the "local news". Yep, it is the funniest thing I've seen all weekend.
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