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Busy few days…

Posted by Little Miss Know it All

January 22, 2007 |

littlemissknowitalld.jpgWhat a busy few days its been in the world of presidential politics, yet, Little Miss Know it All just wants to yawn at the boredom of it all…

 Obama announced.  Big shock!  Hillary is running…like we didn’t know that already!  Richardson’s announcement was a bit more surprising, and interesting, but still, not a page turner.  I’m not glued to the tv set to see what the pundits have to say.

 On that note, I want to say, I’m really tired of local news.  I was visiting Louisville this weekend, and on Sunday I was watching This Week with George Stephanopolous like I always do.  We were in the middle of some pretty good political banter, when, BAM, they switch to Breaking News from the local station WHAS.  I figured, there’s freezing rain outside, there must have been a major accident.  Silly me, how naive.  It was a glorified weather report, so they could interview a snow plow driver who was clearing a local, wait for it, parking lot.  His big news quote?  “Well, its kinda cold.  Just trying to make a few bucks today.”  Stunning.  Clearly, they needed to break in!  Especially since half an hour later, they had a full local broadcast scheduled, and the snow plow driver was the leading story!

 I am so tired of this kind of journalism.  They break into programming to report on house fires, baseball trades, all kinds of inane reporting that could wait until the normal news programming.  I was more shocked because WHAS used to have a great reputation for reporting.  I’m sad to see those days go.


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