I was watching the 10 o'clock news on channel 11, something I dont do that often and the storylines involved.. multiple stabbings serial killer on the loose a kidnapping women being assaulted on fort bend driveways I realize I;m stating the obvious here, but man hard to believe a minimal amount of human beings would resort to hidious acts like this. Thank god for ESPN.
Yeah...steriods, alleged rapes and wife beatings. Much better. Stick to HGTV...weed killing is about as harsh as they get.
That is why I moved to Austin...Houston had a murder a day...Austin, a murder a month... I like my odds here better. DD
Exactly. Do y'all have a weather spin machine up there as well? Every time there is a chance of thunderstorms, they interrupt the local broadcasts to advise us. Sheesh, it's a damned thunderstorm, not the day of the dead! The little bit of snow we had up here the weather coverage was non-stop. Okay, we got dusted! Geez.
yeah, try watching the news in austin. that will depress you. their top stories are about shoe sales at the mall, the audio feeds are usually fuzzy and the graphics are still stuck in 1990. Brian
The local news is totally and completely un-watchable. It isn't just "if it bleeds, it leads" anymore. Now, you could include "if it is a boob or how to escape a firey crash or how fat we are" it leads. I mean, when you have channel 13 doing a segment on Russian mail-order brides called "Mrs. Right-ski" and channel 2's Steven Dean (aka Captain Fabulous) standing in waist deep water during Tropical Storm Allison imploring the viewing public that, "whatever you do, don't go in the water!!!", you know it is either: a. Sweeps week b. Horrific local news c. Both I'll never forget one afternoon when I was off a couple years ago, I was sitting watching some afternoon talk show and channel 2 broke into the show with "Breaking News." The news? A horse had gotten its hind legs stuck in a drainage ditch and crews were attempting to free it. The honestly broke into regular programming just to tell us this...oh, and show it two us as the news chopper circled overhead, no doubt scaring the crap out of an already freaked-out horse. The best part? They went back to the normal program and then CAME BACK about 10 minutes later to show us live coverage of the horse escaping unharmed. Unreal. Local news is a complete and total train wreck. It is best to assume that it bears no resemblence whatsoever to life in any city because it doesn't.
It's crazy, even though crime has declined every year for the last 10 plus years, this kind of coverage seems to have grown exponentially. Really sickiening.
The funniest thing about the local news is that if it isn't a major story that day, they usually all lead off with something different. And sometimes you will never see the story that led off on one station on another. That should say something about the quality of news being reported.
I think this is more of a US thing. We get both the local Seattle news and Canadian news and there is a remarkable difference between the two. The Seattle news is like an episode of COPS. Coverage of police chases...video of holdups...on the scene at all sorts of local crimes, stabbings, murders, etc. I don't see this on the Canadian side -- and there's certainly enough crime to fill up a half-hour show -- should they want to. Don't know if it’s an obsession with having video footage rather than a talking head, the ease of just programming off the police blotter, the cost of in-depth stories, or if the news directors think this is the stuff people gotta know. Weird.
I don't watch the local news...Too depressing...The news now is like Inside Edition or Ent. Tonight... I stick to ESPN, but this past spring, they didn't tell me when the time was changing toSprign forward...
