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Post by chrisnh on Jan 10, 2009 23:10:25 GMT -5
This goes back to Shelby Scott days...probably before. But the fixation on snow storms by EVERY Boston TV station is tiresome, tedious, embarrassing, and amateurish. It's reason #775 why the business is a caricature of itself.
Standing on salt piles, watching front-end loaders scoop it up, standing beside highways telling people, with a dead-serious tone, 'If you don't need to go out, stay home.' Picking up snow with one hand ("See??? SNOW! I make FIRE!!!") while holding the microphone in the other. On and on and on.
Even TV news apologists have to be rolling their eyes at this, because every single storm is given 'STORM WATCH 5!!!' treatment or some other sensationalistic label.
"Stay Tuned to News Center Five for the very latest on how much we missed the snowfall prediction by..."
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Post by fox25rox on Jan 11, 2009 6:59:12 GMT -5
I hear you on all of the above. We've had to listen to what has amounted to 3 flippin inches of snow (fluffy snow too) for the last 4 days.
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Post by chrisnh on Jan 11, 2009 8:38:37 GMT -5
I conclude (and I'm probably right) that this 'overly-sensationalistic' fixation on snow--even a little of it--is TV news' way of trying to justify their existence as a meaningful entity. It's TV news' equivalent of 'TYPING IN ALL-CAPS BECAUSE YOU HOPE THE READER WILL THINK MORE OF WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY!!!!!!!!'
"If I SHOUT something, people will PAY ATTENTION to me!"
An amateurish, childish philosophy, but that's it in a nutshell.
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Post by the guy on Jan 12, 2009 7:13:22 GMT -5
And I'm also sick of seeing that every week someone starts a new thread complaining about Boston's snow coverage. We know it's overdone, but its a tired argument.
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Post by kvn on Jan 12, 2009 10:05:08 GMT -5
And whats the deal with the weather forecasters up on the roof, as poor Dylan was Sunday. Do the bosses think this is necessary? Try working out in the snow actually doing something, not just stannding there like a kid on a day off from school. And why does the Fox boss make Cindy do the forecast daily from outside? Let her stay inside ............
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Post by nopreservatives on Jan 12, 2009 11:16:12 GMT -5
Reminds me of a snowstorm we were expected to get in January of 1978(a few weeks before the big blizzard that year). I went to bed expecting a foot of snow and woke up to a cold rain. I can still remember Doug Limerick(who was working on the old WHDH radio that year) saynig, "Right about now, we'd be talking 8 inches of snow. But instead...Rain!" The storm had come over Boston instead of staying out to sea, pushing the heavy snow to the North and West of Boston, and leaving us with a cold rain.
"We Dodged A Bullet," as Pete Bouchard would say, but 2 days later, we were hit with a bomb! A 20 inch snowfall that served as the prologue for the Blizzard that would happen 2 weeks later. And what a blockbuster we had!
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Post by Roger TV on Jan 23, 2009 12:28:27 GMT -5
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And I'm also sick of seeing that every week someone starts a new thread complaining about Boston's snow coverage. We know it's overdone, but its a tired argument.
...But we all watch don't we.....
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Post by chrisnh on Jan 24, 2009 7:14:17 GMT -5
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And I'm also sick of seeing that every week someone starts a new thread complaining about Boston's snow coverage. It's not tired and it's not overdone. These people have the best weather-forecasting technology they've ever had, yet their forecasts are worse than ever. " Dodged a bullet"...Hah! |
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