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TAMPA BAY NEWS MEDIA FAILED!!!

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noflufftampa

This was posted from a friend of mine who's Husband Proudly Serves in the USCG here in the Bay Area! The USCG is a tight net group of people! When one of their brothers or sisters dies they're all are effected by it!! So that is why it was so important to recognize their service and dedication to keep us safe!! The Tampa Bay News Media didnt do shit yesterday! !! Everyone was in a tissy over the words "**** YOU" carved in Lindsey Lohan's middle finger and whether or not she would get more time for it!! I would like to think that most in this market are not as shallow as MJ and his morning show!


" Your station dropped the ball big time on the Coast Guard, they so dearly depend on by not even so much as MENTIONING the fact that we had 3 out of 4 CG helicopter crewmen DIE in Washington yesterday. They were a crew out of Sitka Alaska Not even so much as a BLURB! Yet Lindsey Lohan going to jail for 90 days makes the Effing news. Makes me sick. Ok....there's my rant for the day!!!"
 
noflufftampa said:
This was posted from a friend of mine who's Husband Proudly Serves in the USCG here in the Bay Area! The USCG is a tight net group of people! When one of their brothers or sisters dies they're all are effected by it!! So that is why it was so important to recognize their service and dedication to keep us safe!! The Tampa Bay News Media didnt do shit yesterday! !! Everyone was in a tissy over the words "---- YOU" carved in Lindsey Lohan's middle finger and whether or not she would get more time for it!! I would like to think that most in this market are not as shallow as MJ and his morning show!


" Your station dropped the ball big time on the Coast Guard, they so dearly depend on by not even so much as MENTIONING the fact that we had 3 out of 4 CG helicopter crewmen DIE in Washington yesterday. They were a crew out of Sitka Alaska Not even so much as a BLURB! Yet Lindsey Lohan going to jail for 90 days makes the Effing news. Makes me sick. Ok....there's my rant for the day!!!"
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Well said, but unfortunately it's not just the Tampa Bay market that routinely drops the ball on serious newstories, but our local tv stations are a shell of their former selves on real news; they've become a hybrid of some news, entertainment and promotions of their network shows.

I don't even bother depending on local radio for news, since (for the most part) they can't be bothered by decent local reporting and don't have much news on the national feeds.


Clearly the Coast Guard story deserved coverage.

drt
 
I understand the frustration about the disparity of importance between the two stories ..and please take this in the manner it is intended, that is an explanation of "local media".

Were I a news director for a Tampa Bay radio station, I would think that my Radio Network's News division would make that, if not the lead story, certainly a story before the first :60 break.

Our Local News at :06 past the hour? Truthfully, unless there were a local connection, we'd stick with the top local stories, again since the Network covered it using their resources.

Now I've never been a TV ...anything. I never liked including national stories in my local news cast, again unless you show me a connection that breaks fresh ground and affects my audience. Let the Network news tell me whats new where I'm not.

Lindsay whoever? Bad choice, but we've been dumbed down over the years.

Were I to run national news in my cast, I'd probably go with it as part of an update and "stay tuned" for the networks update.
 
This may have been a local news story in the Los Angeles market; that is where the hearing on her DUI probation violation took place and where it was noticed that she had the new tatoo that some thought might be directed at the judge.

In the LA
Times, the article I read about it, had it, not in the local news section, but in the entertainment section. Lindsay Lohan, in spite of her high opinion of herself has not (IMO) done as much for this country or others than members of the USCG.

After her sentencing, she more or less complained that her rights had been violated and she quoted (or misquoted) an opinion from the CATO institute and a spokesperson for the CATO institute indicated that she apparently did not understand the law and if she wanted to quote them and the law, she might want to spend less time in bars and more time in law libraries. (Lohan, had among other rambings indicated that her rights had been violated under the Geneva convention!!)


drt
 
" 3 out of 4 CG helicopter crewmen DIE in Washington yesterday. They were a crew out of Sitka Alaska "
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We're all in agreement on the Lohan "story". But then again, we've seen this behavior for many years now. (Please forgive me Ed Murrow) "The Press" today grabs onto a story and won't let go until the next "Big Story" comes along. Remember Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch raid. It took OJ Simpson to quiet that "story". And how long did we listen to crap about OJ?

I feel badly for the families that lost their loved ones yesterday. And it deserved at bare minimum, a mention. But a LOCAL news operation in Tampa should focus on (duh) LOCAL NEWS!
The Coast Guard story should have been on the National News and Lohan belongs in a dumpster.
 
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