Do you hate your local news anchors?

[WestCoastChins]

Sometimes local news anchors can be really annoying. Does anyone besides me in the San Francisco Bay Area think that the KTVU channel 2 news is the stupidest one? A few days ago, there was this big headline on the screen saying: "Arson Not Accident"

.... and what else would it be?

And this one anchor, Leslie Griffith on the 10:00 news is the worst of all of them, one time when she was talking about a murder (I think), she said "They are not only afraid... but they are also concerned." That is such a ridiculous thing to say! :laugh:

Sorry I just had to get this off my back.

[tunes]

I love when someone has been visciously stabbed to death and the news anchor reports, in all seriousness, trying to look incredibly sincere - "The police are treating this as a homicide."

Really? Golly gee! Wish I could make all that money to state the obvious and look stupid.

[Steph]

We don't have any local news stations, but I truly hate the local Radio announcers, they bug the crap out of me!! What idiots!!

[BearBlair]

one of our local news anchors has a speech impediment, where she almost lisps. it's like half a lisp or something. and her first and last name begin with S's, so it's always fun when she introduces herself.

what bugs me most about newspeople, though, is how, after they've covered all the big news about a tragedy, they want to keep talking about it and keep it on the air, but they have nothing left to say, so they start finding "experts" and then ask them the most ridiculous questions. like, "here's a guy who was a janitor at NASA for five years, sir, do you know why the shuttle crashed?"
and after 9/11, when they asked the "expert" of the hour whether he thought the terrorists were trying to say something by their choice of targets. i mean, centers of military, business, government, what have you, and they're going, gee, do you think these targets mean something? that is a question you ask if someone blows up a 7-11, or a mushroom farm, when you're really wondering why someone would choose the site as a target. i think i would rather get sports scores or something, instead of watching them put some know-nothing cleaning lady on the spot because they don't have anything new to say.

[WestCoastChins]

I remember during the power outages on the East Coast this summer, the news networks were talking about it all the time. One person said: "I was in the store, and the lights went out." ... Big deal, it's not like a power outage is a real big disaster, the lights go out, and they come back on later.

[WestCoastChins]

I have a few more to add so I thought I would bring up this thread. :)

After the space shuttle Columbia crashed, a local news station did a story about it. They found this random person in the Bay Area, and they showed her holding this tiny pebble/rock, and said, "Could this be debris from the space shuttle?" :laugh: Yeah right.

[ChinnyMommy]

Especially here in Kentucky, they grab the most backwoods hick to interview after a tragedy. You see a guy in stained boxers and a wife beater "See, I wuz out thar in the field, and I hearded the loudesss boomer!" Really makes us Kentucky folks look good, eh?

Here's some things from this months' reader digest:

"Every summer, a local news channel promotes water safety. With a rare flair for understatement not seen in most news shows, the reporter cautioned: "Don't let drowning ruin your summer." Carol Klien

"I was watching my local television news show when I heard the anchorman opine that the troubles in Iraq could have been avoided with better planning. "After all", he said, "it's not rocket surgery.'" Sheila Alexander

"A reporter and cameraman were on the scene when a terrible fire consumed a large building. With the smoldering building-now a heap of twisted steel and broken glass-acting as a backdrop, the reporter asked the fire chief, "Was the fire hot?" Dale Mclemore

[Melissa7746]

During 9/11 they kept posting for <buffalo> to be prepared...

Prepared for what to kiss your b*tt good bye..how do you prepare??
Then every one was told to take thier kids out of school I live in the middle of no where yeah the cow to the left is a main target...

[cherubchins]

I like our news anchors on Global 7. I don't really watch anyone else.

[Oseris]

i don't watch news a lot :D
but if i have to pick someone, i hate hal fishman from KTLA, if you know who he is...
he got a "hal fishman commentary" section during news
i got that "i-am-a-senior-so-whatever-i-say-has-more-credit" vibe =_=

and does any one notice that one of the female anchor in UPN dresses way too sexy for her job??