...your local news broadcast?
1) Every day
2) Almost every day
3) A couple of times a week
4) Occasionally
5) Never
#2 - I watch nearly every day, but then again, I have to watch the station from the nearest metro area which is 45 miles away - there is no local station where I live. I have to stream it and it gets a bit complicated when there's a sports event, such as football, that delays the broadcast.
Never. I catch the radio news a few times a day out of habit but I don't know why I bother. Donald Trump told the truth once when he said it was all fake news. I haven't even got my TV antenna plugged in, it's not worth it.
Yeah, I get it. There are other sources for news online, so you can skip the stuff that you have no interest in. I watch long enough to see the headlines and weather. Here, the big stories are first, then the weather. After that, I'm done.
shareThere's no such thing as "fake news," just sloppy journalism. The standards for news reporting, whether it be broadcast or in print, have really declined in the past two or three decades. The cable/satellite "news" channels are the worst. TV ratings and ad revenue, along with these channels pushing their agendas, are more important than accurate reporting.
shareThere's no such thing as "fake news,"
That's what you think.
I never watch the local news.
share#5 - Since I moved to Reno eight years ago, never! This after a lifetime of watching the local news on a daily basis (usually the last one at 11:35 or 10:35 when I lived in Central Time Zone, but occasionally the earlier ones as well).
The anchors and other reporters became very familiar faces. But I wouldn't recognize a single local anchor now.
Do you have a reason for not watching local news?
shareI spend a lot of time on my computer and get news that way. I watch financial channels during the day, CNBC and Fox Business and get news that way as well. For local news I'll type Reno into Google and click on News. I just have no interest in watching the local newscasts.
This trend may have started even before I moved to Reno.
I get it. I read a lot of news online during the day. I probably don't really need to watch the 10pm news, but I usually do, just to see another take on what's happening more locally.
shareI lived in Minneapolis during most of the 1990s. Just now I went to the local news station websites to look at the lists of on-air people and the only names that ring a bell are Randy Shaver and Joe Schmit. Watching local newscasts does make a newcomer eventually feel like a local. I like that. I just don't do it anymore...
shareYou must remember Paul Majors. And Paul Douglas.
shareOh yes. I liked Magers, and co-anchor Diana Pierce. Douglas not so much. Douglas was a bit self-important and I remember him interrupting an NBA Championship game 7 game in the last few minutes, because of some bad, potentially dangerous weather. He got a lot of flak for that, and was completely unapologetic. I just looked him up and it turns out that as a businessman he became quite wealthy.
On radio, I loved Tom Barnard and Steve Cannon.
Ah yes. The Cannon Mess.
shareAnd I agree that Paul Douglas came across as self-important, but he knew his stuff. And yeah, he made a ton of money as a businessman.
The funniest thing I remember seeing was back when Channel 11 would do a weather update during after the first segment of The Tonight Show. One night, as Douglas was doing his update, Majors slowly raised his head up from behind a background "bush." Majors had this really goofy look on his face and Douglas had no idea Majors had done that.
You probably know Ken Barlow, too. I liked him better. I ran into him once at my dentist's office.
3) A couple times a week (for weather and sports)
shareSometimes I stay tuned for the sports segment. I like that the local stations cover high school sports, sometimes in some detail, such as state tournaments. I figure that pro sports information can be found other places.
My favorite memory of high school sports is from a hundred years ago during my junior year, when our school went to the boys' state basketball tournament. Favorite quote in our yearbook is "1st in conference, 3rd in state. And they said it couldn't be done."
Good quote, good team...3rd in state is very impressive๐
shareYeah, our first opponent was supposed to wipe the floor with us. It was fun to watch us advance as far as we did, and coming in 3rd also means we won our final game.
My other favorite quote from the yearbook is "our dawn is now." Pictured was a guy and gal sitting on a motorcycle, smiling at the camera. I don't know why, but those two stay in my memory, and they do to this day. Maybe because coming out of high school we feel we're actually entering the new world of true adulthood??
It's funny how certain images stay with us so many years later, images that had no bearing on us
I recall a pic in my High School yearbook of the Senior year football hero kneeling and weeping in the mud after a particularly big loss...I didn't get along with the dude but it's still an image I think of when I see a big upset in a sporting event
NEVER.
share5) Never
I really should take more of an interest, but if something interesting does happen in 'Sunny' Bournemouth, then one of my friends or my wife will tell me.
Every day. Local news, Inside Edition, National News and Jeopardy are a weekday block. The news is slanted as all hell, but it's good to know what they're feeding people.
shareNever as donโt have a TV
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