TV News Producer blasts Weather Hype

[prowlie]

my hero

[luckydougproductions]

I'd love to see that saxophone playin' walrus shoveling snow or driving a snowplow. Now THATS good TV.

[demoman87]

awesome

[spritekingdom2]

that walrus was awesome

[SuperAppletart]

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[applesauce2100]

Yeah he can be your hero, but I'm with the anchors the numbers speaks for themselves...Yes they hype the coverage for ratings and bad weather is a weather forecasters friend big ratings...

[nytesyde]

LOL!!! You're my new Hero!!! i'm a local tv photojournalist and You've just unloaded about 15 years of fustration for me...haha!!!

[Motionart13]

I worked in local news as well, can so relate to this...did they let him on the air just to bash them??

[GlacierMF5]

I work in news as well. Ben is so correct on this one. 100%!!!

[EdwoodCA]

Ben... you're my new, favorite Farker.

Well, after JesterGirl, that is. She posts tons of pics of women, in appropriate threads.

[jacktr1pp1n]

That was GREAT. This type of thing needs to happen at least once a week! You are my hero.

[bandboy27]

Ben, you are so correct on this. I work in local news and you couldn't be more right. And your anchors are restarded. They don't know what it's like out in the field. They must think your viewers are as dumb as they are, or at least it sounds it. Tell them the next snow storm you have, you want them to do the show outside in the storm and see what they think. Local news loves to scare people thinking the world is coming to an end and snow must be armageddon. Thanks for doing this!

[Chaoztaco]

thank god for a sane man in news

[soundofgeek]

Thank you, Ben Bowman, and good luck.

[Bump1nTheNight]

*rofl* Awesome, this producer is a hero.

[just2w4tch]

This guy is awesome

[Molsan]

"Now we counter...you say we are giving less relavent information, but we domminated the ratings."

Um....that wasn't the point how do ratings relate to actually informing people?

Thats the main problem that networks don't seem to get.

[just2w4tch]

yeah totally.

[russsssman]

Thank YOU!!!!!!! We are all tired of 'sensationalist over hyped retard journalism' Yeah ratings may come in because soccer moms buy into this. People still buy into the guys at every stop light as being homeless people too! Doesn't make it right.

[jharper30]

oh man, this guy is my hero of the month. he'll probably get in trouble from some idiot network boss that isn't used to so much truth about how ridiculous news is today. this is exactly the type of guy who gets fired for stuff like that, and yet this is exactly the type of producer who I will now follow to make sure I watch whatever program he works on after he gets fired:)

[ZeroCorpse]

He's right. The news bunnies don't seem to get it. What a bunch of vapid talking heads!

I feel for you having to work with these dimwits, Mr. Producer, dude.

There's a reason you're the producer and they're replaceable. Tell me something: Do News Anchors have to fail an IQ test to get the job, or do you just hire them based on their general appearance of not having a clue?

[bnvn1]

Great, it's a start to get news back to being THE NEWS and not some political left wing love fest.