Thursday, October 21, 2010

Random News


Random typography pub quiz: The Phil Baines remix*. by Friends of St Bride

After a long day, just before the turn at night, continually make the mistake of seeing the local news. I live in Connecticut, and I have my chance to see local news in four channels of Connecticut or a pair of Rhode Island. The news itself is not what bothers me and I hope to hear of murders, stabbings, corrupt politicians, and such. It's how the local news shows you do not like, to the point where they often turn complains off.My first on the local news is the film footage used. One night does not go by where the story is about 30 to 45 seconds longer than the accompanying material, ie, I can see the pictures again and again, sometimes three or four times. For example, as a journalist from the history of the Chief of Staff of the Governor in trouble for illegal fund-raising, I try to picture this woman walking down a hallway. When the end, the film goes back to the beginning of the room and I get the same footage over and over again until the story ends. If that's all you have to teach, show and back then about the study or the journalist, because after the third time seeing the same thing I get to concentrate on that and not shooting story.Another in Hartford! Who could expect that? Only local news anchor seems alarmed, though in the past six months I have spoken of a Hartford shots three times a week. These channels must be about ninety seconds each night reserved for reporting on the last shot, and having to struggle to fill the time, when in reality no one gets shot, which does not happen often. The accumulation of some local news stories begin days in advance so that you can not believe they are not telling you about them right now. The ad warns of a "death trap right in your own backyard" potential, then they tell you to tune in at eleven o'clock on Monday night of this "Scoop." If there was something so dangerous in my backyard, I need to know the night so you can avoid or get rid of it. A piece of this kind warned viewers to be sure to see the news on Tuesday because "there was something about the waterways of Connecticut that can kill you in sixty seconds." Oh, my God, I thought, is the monster of Loch Ness in Scotland and ran into a witness protection program here in New England. It is the smoke of their outboard motor, if a person inhales continuously cause great harm. Who knew not to breathe the toxic fumes? Often the news opens with what I consider something minor, like a town meeting about a drainage problem. slow news day I think, until about ten minutes later, when the reporter finally tells me about a major catastrophe somewhere in the country. Why not be your lead story? Apparently, because they can not afford to send their "in situ" reporter there, but you can get to the town meeting. So instead of immediately discover that the subway system of New York, the city was the target of terrorists, I learn that a woman in Bridgeport had 32 cats living with her.How it becomes a Weather Man, because I want that job. You just come and stand in front of the Doppler radar maps and lie like a used car salesman. These people have absolutely no idea what's going to do the day after tomorrow, but have the audacity to give a forecast of eight days. In the summer, you throw in the phrase "the possibility of a thunderstorm in the evening" just to cover. It seems that the technology is developed, the worst of weather forecasts have become. But if a storm is imminent, even if it is days away, then it's like a gold mine for the weatherman. When I was a child, the time an image consisting of a sun, clouds, rain or snow. That was it. The time took about a minute and ran. Now the weather person on the local news prays for snow. He or she then will turn it into the storm to end all storms just to the previous day, when you say things like "if the tracks to the south will be saved" or "all depends on the temperature. " Because I really do not know, but I do know that the threat of snow and good grades for local news.I am a Yankees fan, and when the sport is on the local news, no need to hear the called " Evil Empire "because the delivery man sports once caught a foul ball off the bat of Jim Rice. Just show me the light and give the results. Most people delivering local news, sports must have once dreamed of being actors, it is quickly apparent why dreams never became reality. In addition, the government of one to get a job doing sports on the local news for women must be that can not be ugly. Maybe you need to be able to read well. As unfair as it seems, that is TRUE local news can bring a new meaning to the old adage "no news is good news."

No comments:

Post a Comment