What is your favorite news channel? (Young: work, trailer, retire)

[GT350]

Originally Posted by sheena

What's that blondes name in the morning that interviews the celebrities? Can't stand her? Is it Tara something?

Tara Hitchcock.. I sat next to her at a Coyotes game once. OMG....she wouldn't shut up during the whole game with her annoying voice. Third period, I ended up moving down a few rows... what a whinner she is...

[GT350]

I'd like to see Lynn Sue doing the news one night in a tight little teddie... and next to her.... Fay is some black lingerie... Not that will get viewers....

[MotleyCrew]

Do not watch the local news very often. Fox news until it starts to repeat itself and we watch CNBC Business news in the early hours.

[Greatday]

Ancillary to this discussion: Anyone have comments on the coverage of the bank robber crashing into the innocent man and killing both? Specfically, the air coverage?

IMO - the stations covering this had no way of knowing there would be a crash -

[Sco]

I will watch any of them except for Channel 3, if you didn't know any better you would think they were doing a Reno 911 style spoof of a local news channel.

[silverbear]

Originally Posted by Greatday

Ancillary to this discussion: Anyone have comments on the coverage of the bank robber crashing into the innocent man and killing both? Specfically, the air coverage?

IMO - the stations covering this had no way of knowing there would be a crash -

True, but to me the bigger issue is if coverage of high-speed chases encourages losers to run from the police. A repeat offender with nothing to lose may be thinking -- at least at a subsconscious level -- that he or she will at least be on TV if there's a good chase. In other words, I think that media coverage of chases encourages more chases.

[Greatday]

Originally Posted by silverbear

True, but to me the bigger issue is if coverage of high-speed chases encourages losers to run from the police. A repeat offender with nothing to lose may be thinking -- at least at a subsconscious level -- that he or she will at least be on TV if there's a good chase. In other words, I think that media coverage of chases encourages more chases.

I'm not sure this guy saw the news choppers - the SkyHawk (PD) maybe -

Cop cars were way back -

[Boatdrinks]

I can't watch channel 5 b/c that old dude, Kent something (I want to say Brockman, but that's the old guy in The Simpsons), is entirely too ugly to be viewed on a big screen TV. I can't concentrate on what he's saying b/c I'm too busy looking away from the screen. Someone needs to get him something for those age spots.

I tend to watch channel 12 b/c I love the high def, and b/c I like Lynn Sue and whats-his-name. Can't stand Faye Frederics b/c she's always wearing those humongous gold hoop earings that get tangled up in her bouffant, badly dyed Jersey hair. As with Kent, I can't take my eyes off the fashion citations so her news delivery goes in one ear and out the other.

Channel 10 production and set seems cheap to me, as does channel 3 plus I can't stand channel 3 b/c it reminds me of The View - a bunch of yentas yammering about nothing. I'm ambivilant about channel 15.

You might think me shallow for basing all my opinions of appearances but, IMO, that's all that differentiates the channels. They all report the same stories and, if it's raining, they all spend 3/4 of their half hour reporting from various puddles throughout the valley with extreme close ups of the aforementioned puddles.

The reporting is half decent, at best. Sometimes I wonder where these reporters and editors got their training. The stories are jumbled together and often leave me sitting there going "Huh?" - they leave important parts out and cram entirely too much fluff into their newscasts.

I get most of my news online or from cable. And I listen to the nearly famous Barry Young every morning

[nitram]

Some of you people's posts are genuinely funny, but true. The TV media here is a joke, and Boatdrinks hit it pretty muich on target.
BTW, about Lynn Sue Cooney, when she first started with Ch-12 several years ago, she was about to be fired but saved her butt by announcing at the time that she was marrying into the Cooney family that owns Ch-12. She married Pep Cooney's son, I believe his name is Shawn or Sean? At that time public publicity about her on air reporting was very bad plus conflicts with her co-workers.
Kent Dana came to Ch-5 from Ch-12 and has been in the valley news scene since father time. Patty K, well what can you say about her, nothing.
I watch Ch-8's various news programs and frequently watch Ch-15 as they seem to be the more moderate news station (their HD is great). At least they don't do giggly things and have idiots like Brad Perry on Ch-3 dancing, er prancing around in his egotistic ways. Tara Hitchcock, yow she is a sight isn't she. Another egomaniac.
They all get so excited about rain, then they complain when it's hot, then they complain when it's cold. It never ends. And some stories they milk it to death over and over.

[sheena]

Originally Posted by Boatdrinks

I can't watch channel 5 b/c that old dude, Kent something (I want to say Brockman, but that's the old guy in The Simpsons), is entirely too ugly to be viewed on a big screen TV. I can't concentrate on what he's saying b/c I'm too busy looking away from the screen. Someone needs to get him something for those age spots.

I tend to watch channel 12 b/c I love the high def, and b/c I like Lynn Sue and whats-his-name. Can't stand Faye Frederics b/c she's always wearing those humongous gold hoop earings that get tangled up in her bouffant, badly dyed Jersey hair. As with Kent, I can't take my eyes off the fashion citations so her news delivery goes in one ear and out the other.

Channel 10 production and set seems cheap to me, as does channel 3 plus I can't stand channel 3 b/c it reminds me of The View - a bunch of yentas yammering about nothing. I'm ambivilant about channel 15.

You might think me shallow for basing all my opinions of appearances but, IMO, that's all that differentiates the channels. They all report the same stories and, if it's raining, they all spend 3/4 of their half hour reporting from various puddles throughout the valley with extreme close ups of the aforementioned puddles.

The reporting is half decent, at best. Sometimes I wonder where these reporters and editors got their training. The stories are jumbled together and often leave me sitting there going "Huh?" - they leave important parts out and cram entirely too much fluff into their newscasts.

I get most of my news online or from cable. And I listen to the nearly famous Barry Young every morning

Kent Dana is the old dude

Oh I miss Barry Young.........