Don't Get Me Started.
---------- I tend to complain alot and well thats true, but I am getting more and more upset with the news. No I am not saying that the news is all bad, but local news here in Houston has really become a joke. Top Local Network News is going to be attacked.
They start airing fluff stories that really aren't journalistic material. A few weeks ago, I was watching channel 2, the NBC affilated station, and they were reporting on a doggy diet for there channel's mascot Radar. My question what the hell is so newsworthy about a small dog's diet. Sure we should be concerned that our pets don't get over weight but damn it its not a major news story. I am sorry but some of these things just get frustrating.
Also in the same network, there investgating team are really reaching to make people afraid to go out. Here is the story, Steven Dean, wanted to warn parents about online predetors and posed as a 15 yr old girl online and lured men to come visit her. Once they came to the house, they were in for a "surprise" instead of a 15 yr old girl, you had a fat middle age man with a camera. Well sure we should be afraid of who our child chats with online but having a repeative news story over and over about online preditors and chasing them down. Its kind of creepy. This channel wants you to be afraid of everything, and I am not joking pretty much anything that people do, they'll find some way to say it will kill you. If it doesn't kill you its not news to them.
Well Channel 13 also has there fair share of sensational news stories but they also have there share of local media legends working for there news casts, they have the Marvin Zindler.This guy tops the list of outrageous reporters working for a local station. He worked on exposing the imfamous Chicken Ranch, and his reporting and his tatics were parodied in the musical, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas. His reporting and his stories are really just bunk. Also the same station has Jeff Ealing,this is a reporter who makes anything depressing to watch. I mean he find's these stories and make them so sad, not for the people involved but the way he reports them. A crisis in a small town,he makes it seem like a Shakespearan tragedy. It kind of makes me sick to watch the news hearing how life is listening to him.
Channel 26, the Fox Affilated station doesn't report the news, it just seems like it cut and pastes news stories from other networks and claim them as there own. No major sensationalism, but they will find a story that will really try to boost there ratings.
Channel 39, the WB affliate, although new to the news scene they try to show viewers they mean business. My only problem is that its one of those news shows that seems that everyone is watching but really its on a network that no body really cares. I remember when Channel 39 when they aired crappy syndicated sitcoms that networks couldn't shelves. Then they revamped the network first as an all black station which was replaced by the UPN, but has now become an all Teenybopper drama network. Sure I like some of the shows,on the WB but most of them just don't appeal to me, mainly because I am the wrong gender and too old to watch these shows.
Well last network which I find to have a normal news with a few stories that are with a very few sensationalistic stories. Is Channel 11 CBS, the local news, has a lot of great stories but most of them are involving disasters involving the Light Rail. Some of these stories are just benign that I can't figure out whats the point of these stories, some people view it as pretty boy news.
These networks,are pulling every stop to be the best but even I don't and I possibly will never figure out which network has the best newscast. So when we chose to watch the news, chose what suits you best, whether you like extreme like Channel 2 or the more calmer approach to the same news, Channel 11.