I can’t watch the local news anymore. I’ve lived here my entire life, and I should be used to the horrible puns by now – but every day?! Did you all earn journalism degrees in order to lead into every story with a nerve-grating pun or play on words? I just lose patience.
PS: I can tell when the weather girl picks out her own outfits.
—Unedutained
This article appears in May 7-13, 2009.
Can’t beat that awkward laughter either!
Well, you’ve got a guy with a bad hair transplant, a clown with an inch of pancake for a weatherperson and a midget as anchor – sounds like fun but sure as fuck isn’t. I switched to the other channel, simply because I couldn’t stand any more stories from fucking Plaster Rock, New Brunswick. I just wish they’d give the midget a neck – he’s starting to look like a bewildered buzzard.
How ’bout the CBC news: “Welcome to the B-R-O-A-D cast!”
Dan, Dan——what’s-his-name? Fuck I’ll be glad to see him go—–oh ya Don Newman! How crappy lame is that!?
“Welcome to the B-R-O-A-D cast!” Ahhhhhh!
As per a recent bitch made, I just hate stupid bias interviews.
As bill hick’s states:
Isn’t the new’s suppose to be the WHOOOLEE story
I shouldn’t be able to tell a certain dumbass is obviously NDP and thinks it would be better to put the country into a deficit.
“If it happens in the sky…..”
LOL
T.V. Neews? What’s that.
I like the weather-girl’s outfits.
Know who I hate? The guy who normally does the late night news. His name is very similar to frisk. I’d like to reach through the screen, grab him by the tie and tell him that the velvet suits he’s wearing have never been cool, nor have the pastel colours he wearing.
Haha, this is the bitch of the week. Just the other day I was wondering out loud, “Gee, do you think the weather lady picks out her own outfits?” No way someone gets paid to do it for her.
1fallingangels1,
about “Isn’t the new’s suppose to be the WHOOOLEE story”, I recently read/heard about the fact that decades and decades ago there were more large news sources (we’re talking newpapers here), each one of them was biased, and each one of them was absolutely up-front about its bias. It was obvious that if you wanted the whole story you had to consult multiple sources. Or you could stick to one source whose bias you could sympathize with, or see through most easily.
Nowadays it is still true that you need multiple sources to get a picture, but with the amalgamation of news sources (done for extra money…economies of scale) and the trumpeting of (and I suppose part achievement of) fairness in reporting, fewer people are aware of the background biases, and fewer people are getting their news properly.
All of this points to balancing out large-outlet news stories by reading first-hand blogs (or even bitch board comments) by people who don’t pretend to be unbiased.
watch the news? you have the internet right?
news is free. don’t watch, skim and read what you want. hell you can even act it out if you have some undying need to see the news performed badly.
FYI the “local news” is the same everywhere…low power, low budget, and intended for a narrow audience. Like most, I gather my news from the internet (Google news is a fast way to get a more rounded, less political overall view) except of the once a day glance at the CBC headlines. Stay away from all Fox network channels, as they are terribly, and openly ultra right wing….they are the ones who still report that old, and long ago disproved story that the 911 terrorists came from Canada.
As far as blogs go, be vary afraid LOL! Blogs are NOT news. Many profess to be, and many are legit. They are posted by paid and respected. seasoned journalists..ya, the ones with actual journalism degrees and stuff. A huge majority are just outlets for single agenda ranters. Fun? hell ya!..serious and accurate news sources? not so much.
True story: I was speaking to a guy who did both cosmetics and drag, and he was hired by the station to teach the weather girl makeup application. A freaking DRAG QUEEN had to tell her it was too much.
I know this isn’t local news, but Peter Mansbridge cracks me up. I’ll turn the TV on at the end of the news just to hear him say, “…and up next it’s The Hour with George Strooooooooooooooumboulopoulos!
I know local newscasters are annoying but I like that about them. No matter how bad my day at work is I can always come home, turn on the news, and be thankful I don’t have that guys job.
fizz said;
“No matter how bad my day at work is I can always come home, turn on the news, and be thankful I don’t have that guys job.”
I hear ya fizz! I’ll bet The Coast has a bigger budget ;~)
Flyingbrick…totally agree.
…except that using any source (even a one-sided rantfest blog) is fine as long as you check facts from unproven sources with more trustworthy ones.
Also, I think reading anything obviously biased is good practice for sorting out the real from the not, and also for finding out and evaluating your own biases.