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Good Riddance Days without Rain

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azenergyfan

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Thank God we will not see that stupid Days without rain thing on every station in the lower right hand corner! Thank god they will not start their forcast any more with how many days without rain. Thank God for Rain!!!! Yippie!!!!!
 
> Thank God we will not see that stupid Days without rain
> thing on every station in the lower right hand corner! Thank
> god they will not start their forcast any more with how many
> days without rain. Thank God for Rain!!!! Yippie!!!!!

Olivia's question for Royal Norman this morning:

"Did you think this would happen?"

Gee...he's oneof the few meterologists on TV in this town...my guess is he did.

Caribe Devine on Channel 12:

"It's raining, so make sure you have an umbrella and your windshield wipers work."

Bill Bellis on ABC 15, live from his house (that's a head scratcher):

"Here's some video I shot with my camera".

Tonight, Mike Watkiss goes one on one with the storm, asking questions like:

"Did you target Phoenix as a destination?"

"When do you decide to drop rain?"

and,

"Can you explain to Ross Shimabuku how to pronounce Mike D'Antoni's last name?"

Major market....right.
>
 
Yeah, but nothing beats Monsoon Mania.

My favorite was Tammy Vo (or whoever the asian reporter of the month is) standing next to a drainage ditch and marvelling at all the water flowing down it. (uh, Tammy, drainage ditches are built to flow water), or standing in the low end of a parking lot where water had pooled up and in a giddy incredulous voice stating "look at this water, it gets deeper as you walk into it, its like the ocean!"



Local TV news, cotton candy for the mind.
 
> Bill Bellis on ABC 15, live from his house (that's a head
> scratcher):
>
> "Here's some video I shot with my camera".

Missed that one -- was he in his jammies? Does that make him a VJ?

> Major market....right.
>

TOUCHE! It is hard to believe, isn't it? I personally would rank the local news here about even with Dubuque (apples to apples, minus the extended farm report).
 
> My favorite was Tammy Vo (or whoever the asian reporter of
> the month is) standing next to a drainage ditch and
> marvelling at all the water flowing down it. (uh, Tammy,
> drainage ditches are built to flow water), or standing in
> the low end of a parking lot where water had pooled up and
> in a giddy incredulous voice stating "look at this water, it
> gets deeper as you walk into it, its like the ocean!"

At least we haven't seen anyone reporting from a boat, with people in the background wading. (Yet.) If the local news is bush-league, I'm afraid their networks aren't much better.<P ID="signature">______________
Dave</P>
 
> > Thank God we will not see that stupid Days without rain
> > thing on every station in the lower right hand corner!
> Thank
> > god they will not start their forcast any more with how
> many
> > days without rain. Thank God for Rain!!!! Yippie!!!!!
>
> Olivia's question for Royal Norman this morning:
>
> "Did you think this would happen?"
>
> Gee...he's oneof the few meterologists on TV in this
> town...my guess is he did.
>
> Caribe Devine on Channel 12:
>
> "It's raining, so make sure you have an umbrella and your
> windshield wipers work."
>
> Bill Bellis on ABC 15, live from his house (that's a head
> scratcher):
>
> "Here's some video I shot with my camera".
>
> Tonight, Mike Watkiss goes one on one with the storm, asking
> questions like:
>
> "Did you target Phoenix as a destination?"
>
> "When do you decide to drop rain?"
>
> and,
>
> "Can you explain to Ross Shimabuku how to pronounce Mike
> D'Antoni's last name?"
>
> Major market....right.
> >
>
Given that all the meteorologists have been talking about this storm since last Tuesday, Olivia's questions seems very odd, but Olivia's really cute.

Caribe seems to have a knack of stating the painfully obvious, but Caribe's really cute.

Bill may have just gotten up, but he's the hunkiest weatherman in town.

Ross may not know anything about sports names, but have you seen him with his shirt off???

My theory is that Phoenix has 5 stations trying to maintain a full set of newscasts, along with a large Spanish speaking population (and I assume popular Spanish newscasts). This seems to lead to lower quality newscasts overall.

On the other hand, Seattle has 3 stations maintaining a full newsroom, plus a Fox station with morning and late evening newscasts. The overall quality in Seattle is much higher, but I've recently noticed that Seattle is beginning to his young, blonde, and cheap as well.
 
This has nothing to do with rain, or reporters expressing astonishment at water collecting at one end of a parking lot or flowing down a drainage ditch, but I happened to be at the state legislature in Hartford last week covering a hearing on an anti-noise bill targeting motorcycles for a local newspaper and what to my astonished eyes should appear? Would you believe TV reporters who cover the legislature on a regular basis? I saw two and maybe three, and none of them were young, blonde or female. They were all in their 50s, had lines on their faces and were men. That's not to say we don't have bimbos (or mimbos) who stand outside with a ruler when it snows and go, "Wow, Three inches," but at least real issues get covered as well. I'll bet if you assigned half of the TV reporters in the Valley to story at the Capitol, they'd go, "Where is it?" John Kain would have known. Lou Ruggiero knows. But who else?



> > Bill Bellis on ABC 15, live from his house (that's a head
> > scratcher):
> >
> > "Here's some video I shot with my camera".
>
> Missed that one -- was he in his jammies? Does that make
> him a VJ?
>
> > Major market....right.
> >
>
> TOUCHE! It is hard to believe, isn't it? I personally
> would rank the local news here about even with Dubuque
> (apples to apples, minus the extended farm report).
>
 
> This has nothing to do with rain, or reporters expressing
> astonishment at water collecting at one end of a parking lot
> or flowing down a drainage ditch, but I happened to be at
> the state legislature in Hartford last week covering a
> hearing on an anti-noise bill targeting motorcycles for a
> local newspaper and what to my astonished eyes should
> appear? Would you believe TV reporters who cover the
> legislature on a regular basis? I saw two and maybe three,
> and none of them were young, blonde or female. They were all
> in their 50s, had lines on their faces and were men. That's
> not to say we don't have bimbos (or mimbos) who stand
> outside with a ruler when it snows and go, "Wow, Three
> inches," but at least real issues get covered as well. I'll
> bet if you assigned half of the TV reporters in the Valley
> to story at the Capitol, they'd go, "Where is it?" John Kain
> would have known. Lou Ruggiero knows. But who else?
>

Hey, Bud... Nice to hear from you.

John Kain. There's a name from the past. He was very good. Bill Stull, God rest him, would have known. Dave Hampton would have known. Mike Hagerty would have known. There are others....

You know what's ironic? Tucson has its share of TV bimbos and himbos, but they still have a few real reporters with some seasoning and brains. Sal Quijada comes to mind. There was a time when Phoenix TV stations had reporters with real brains and knowledge of the local issues. Ironically, as Phoenix grew it became a hotter destination for the beautiful and ambitious - not necessarily knowledgeable.
 
> > This has nothing to do with rain, or reporters expressing
> > astonishment at water collecting at one end of a parking
> lot
> > or flowing down a drainage ditch, but I happened to be at
> > the state legislature in Hartford last week covering a
> > hearing on an anti-noise bill targeting motorcycles for a
> > local newspaper and what to my astonished eyes should
> > appear? Would you believe TV reporters who cover the
> > legislature on a regular basis? I saw two and maybe three,
>
> > and none of them were young, blonde or female. They were
> all
> > in their 50s, had lines on their faces and were men.
> That's
> > not to say we don't have bimbos (or mimbos) who stand
> > outside with a ruler when it snows and go, "Wow, Three
> > inches," but at least real issues get covered as well.
> I'll
> > bet if you assigned half of the TV reporters in the Valley
>
> > to story at the Capitol, they'd go, "Where is it?" John
> Kain
> > would have known. Lou Ruggiero knows. But who else?
> >
>
> Hey, Bud... Nice to hear from you.
>
> John Kain. There's a name from the past. He was very good.
> Bill Stull, God rest him, would have known. Dave Hampton
> would have known. Mike Hagerty would have known. There are
> others....
>
> You know what's ironic? Tucson has its share of TV bimbos
> and himbos, but they still have a few real reporters with
> some seasoning and brains. Sal Quijada comes to mind.
> There was a time when Phoenix TV stations had reporters with
> real brains and knowledge of the local issues. Ironically,
> as Phoenix grew it became a hotter destination for the
> beautiful and ambitious - not necessarily knowledgeable.
>
To a greater or lesser extent, all markets are feeling the young and blonde (and cheap) push. I look at some of the reporters on Channel 3 and its positively painful to listen to poor diction, definite lisps, and just a general lack of knowledge of anything substantive.
 
> >
> To a greater or lesser extent, all markets are feeling the
> young and blonde (and cheap) push. I look at some of the
> reporters on Channel 3 and its positively painful to listen
> to poor diction, definite lisps, and just a general lack of
> knowledge of anything substantive.
>
Who is the new hispanic reporter on Fox 10 in the morning? I know, it's a morning show. But at least the others don't sound "ghetto". I can't remember her name, but just listening to this girl speak is *painful*.

(Following text was added)

By the way, I identify her as hispanic ONLY to identify her. I am not in ANY way making a broad statement about hispanics or specifically hispanic reporters. If this girl were purple, she would STILL sound "ghetto". I simply find myself unable to believe that someone with such poor speaking skills would get hired in a market like Phoenix.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by rkchicago on 03/14/06 11:16 PM.</FONT></P>
 
Local news *imbos and politics

> > and none of them were young, blonde or female. They were
> all
> > in their 50s, had lines on their faces and were men.
> That's
> > not to say we don't have bimbos (or mimbos) who stand
> > outside with a ruler when it snows and go, "Wow, Three
> > inches," but at least real issues get covered as well.
> I'll
> > bet if you assigned half of the TV reporters in the Valley
>
> > to story at the Capitol, they'd go, "Where is it?" > >
<snip>
> There was a time when Phoenix TV stations had reporters with
> real brains and knowledge of the local issues. Ironically,
> as Phoenix grew it became a hotter destination for the
> beautiful and ambitious - not necessarily knowledgeable.
>

Interesting thread, but I think it's perhaps best to keep today's air-head local news bimbos and himbos as far away from the politicians as possible. Many are just too stupid to know where the ethics line is or just don't care. They may work to help push their own candidates at election times, ala 15's Katie Raml, http://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/4/dartslaurels.asp?printerfriendly=yes
and http://www.arizonawishlist.org/100403flyer.htm

(I'm sure there are other local examples, perhaps not as flagrant.)
The dumb *imbos may not even know if they are being used by politicians in their intense zeal to be popular personalities and local stars.

Naw, I think it's best to keep the bimbos locked up in the makeup room with only their mirror until air time, and keep the field *imbos on a short leash.
 
> "Wow, Three
> inches," but at least real issues get covered as well. I'll
> bet if you assigned half of the TV reporters in the Valley
> to story at the Capitol, they'd go, "Where is it?" John Kain
> would have known. Lou Ruggiero knows. But who else?

Whatever happened to Dave Hampton? Great capitol reporter.

It's too bad that everyone has cancelled the news in favor of giving us Entertainment Tonight.<P ID="signature">______________
...co-moderator of the Satellite Radio, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, and San Diego boards...</P>
 
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