This Just In

[DXDXDX]

Right...send them to college to get a "broadcasting degree". Yep...they can spend 4 years there to learn how to run a console. They can "learn" from an instructor who has little to zero experience in commercial competitive radio. They can then play radio at the college station.

 

[vadar]

"Run a console"? With automation, just need 1st grade computer skills, click and drag baby!!! ;D

 

[muskrat14]

You don't go to college to learn how to run a console -- I can teach someone to do that in 30 minutes. You go to get an education, to learn writing skills, to learn how to be a well-rounded person that can think. Some people in our business are so myopic that all they care about are rotations and voice tracking scheduling and they don't see the bigger picture. That is what college can help with. Critical thinking, learning to work in a diverse culture, writing and grammar skills are things colleges are good for. The world beyond the walls of the studio.

 

[vadar]

I was kidding and I agree with the last post. So much can be learned at the right facility with the right folks.

 

[kentraco]

Apparently, nothing more important happened today in all of Central Florida than the court appearance of the man accused of running a brothel.

WDBO hammered the story in every newscast from early morning until at least five o'clock, moving it from its lead position only when the parking garage collapsed at Miami-Dade. He was scheduled to appear, he failed to appear, he was ordered to appear later, he did appear later. That's it. End of story. Of course, that provided them with many more opportunities to repeat the names of the two public officials who were found on the client list but haven't been charged with a crime.

Perhaps the newsreaders just like saying "brothel".

 

[DXDXDX]

I'm sorry I missed it. I can just imagine these "bright", "well rounded", "highly experienced at a college station" "journalists" calling it either a "broo-thell", "bra-thell" or placing the accent in the wrong place.

 

[kentraco]

I'm sorry I missed it.

They may still be flogging the story. One of the shamed politicians resigned a second post he held, so they weaved the sordid details into yesterday's newscasts as well.

Brothel! Brothel! Brothel! Feels good to say that.

 

[DXDXDX]

There's probably some "bright", "well rounded", "educated" college graduate with their "journalism" degree in hand who thinks "BROTH-el" is some type of chicken soup! Could be the same college graduate "journalist" I had to correct because she kept calling that German car a "Volts-wagon"...actually wrote it in her copy that way!

 

[kentraco]

Just as the story was gasping its last breath (thankfully, because they actually sank to the level of using the term "brothelgate" yesterday), another prostitution scandal broke in Maine. And, of course, we here in Central Florida need to have all the details.

It's another chance for them to use that fun word again: brothel, brothel, brothel...

 

[engineer65]

Today we learned that a man was sentenced last year "to raping a teenage girl". (No word on whether one was provided...)

In other news, because Preakness and Kentucky Derby winner "I'll Have Another" was scratched from this weekend's Belmont Stakes, the "Triple Kraut" drought will continue for another year.

Because of that faux paus the WDBO news department will now do a series of in depth reports on the "Great Triple Kraut Drought of 2012".

That should give them stories for weeks.

 

[kentraco]

I hate to sound like I'm constantly ragging on the WDBO news operation, because for the most part I think they do a good job.

But can't anyone on staff listen during the day and correct obvious errors before they're repeated? Yesterday I heard "electorial votes" twice from the same person and a repetition of the report that three arrested suspects were "facing grand theft".

And I believe the phrase is "neck and neck"...not "neck to neck".