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Unfortunately, local news everywhere has been degraded into a form of mindless entertainment. We get the generic "Ken and Barbie" anchor team, the chubby weather guy (or sometimes the hot weather girl), and the goofy sports guy. We can count on these people to engage in senseless blather, lame joke-telling, and the reporting of "cute" stories; all while acting as though they have some kind of personal relationship with the viewers. The only big difference I've observed between markets is that, the progressively larger the market, the more sexually marketable the on-air personnel.
I don't want sexy, I don't want cute, I don't want fun, I don't want friendly... I want an intelligent human being providing me with timely and relevant information.
Unfortunately, local news everywhere has been degraded into a form of mindless entertainment. We get the generic "Ken and Barbie" anchor team, the chubby weather guy (or sometimes the hot weather girl), and the goofy sports guy. We can count on these people to engage in senseless blather, lame joke-telling, and the reporting of "cute" stories; all while acting as though they have some kind of personal relationship with the viewers. The only big difference I've observed between markets is that, the progressively larger the market, the more sexually marketable the on-air personnel.
I don't want sexy, I don't want cute, I don't want fun, I don't want friendly... I want an intelligent human being providing me with timely and relevant information.
Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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Originally Posted by rogead
Unfortunately, local news everywhere has been degraded into a form of mindless entertainment. We get the generic "Ken and Barbie" anchor team, the chubby weather guy (or sometimes the hot weather girl), and the goofy sports guy. We can count on these people to engage in senseless blather, lame joke-telling, and the reporting of "cute" stories; all while acting as though they have some kind of personal relationship with the viewers. The only big difference I've observed between markets is that, the progressively larger the market, the more sexually marketable the on-air personnel.
I don't want sexy, I don't want cute, I don't want fun, I don't want friendly... I want an intelligent human being providing me with timely and relevant information.
^^^ You summed it all up most accurately. Absolutely true.
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Originally Posted by Dallaz
Wow. It's not like that at all in DFW.
Oh well lucky you guys I guess, it's pretty much the same garbage media rogead articulated about most everywhere else, and same depressing headlines too.
This theme has been used for around forty years now and is one of the most famous in the country. It is universally known in southeast PA, South Jersey, and DE. People sing it drunk at parties haha.
Having grown up in Chicago (family still there), I've always been fond of ABC 7 (WLS). I liked this opening from a few yrs back, as well as the music (they had used this music for years), but no longer. These are from a few years ago:
Sade Baderinwa was my first anchor Girlfriend (in my own mind). She was originally here in Baltimore. Funny to see people from the NYC area running to the market when they hear a snow storm coming.
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