Local TV Channels when there is bad weather...

I have two things with local TV I must complain about right now. The first has to do with their coverage EVERY WINTER. They have to cover snowflake dropping from the sky like a national emergency. The best if they can simply play a news clip from ten years ago and it would be the same damn thing. They will start out with the traffic shots of different streets through out the area. The next thing they do is have someone interviewing various snow plow/salt truck drivers going through the same speech which includes:

- “We will be working sixteen hour shifts”
- We are doing the best we can”
- “We will be doing the main roads and then the side roads”

Of course the reporter goes to some random shopping center just outside the border of Detroit to do some man on the street interviews and see how different people are “dealing with the cold weather” This would be unique if we lived in the south and it got this cold once a blue moon. Folks – if you live in MI you deal with this cold weather a few months a year. This is NOTHING NEW.

Needless to say I turn the channel or simply don’t watch it. I am just not sure how stupid the newscasters look doing such reports. If their market research tells them that this is what the audience wants – shame on them.

One more thing before I leave you – I turned on Channel 4 (WDIV) and 7 (WXYZ) yesterday morning. They were showing the school closings while their respective network morning shows were broadcasting at that time. COULD THEY MAKE THE SCREEN OF THE NATIONAL SHOW ANY SMALLER? Seriously – local channels in both case made the national show maybe 1/3 of the screen while they showed the schools that were closed. Never mind I don’t understand why the schools were closed because you know those kids who could not stand out on bus stops were dropped at the mall at about 10:05 AM. These are the same damn kids that don’t even wear coats. I am not even referring to the poor ones either. Thank god there was not anything I needed to see on any of those network morning shows. A simple scroll across the bottom would work just fine on those TV channels.

I am done with ranting….