@camps
I'll be glad when this B.Rick guy is on another extended break from the board!!!! #NYCSucks

I cannot stand this trend. Deadliest Catch is seemingly the worst offender in this regard but there are plenty of others who do it too.

They are never interesting.
They are so generic that it is laughable. "@sunshineiscool Way to catch that crab!"
They often act like they are friends. "@charliesmiley I knew you could do it!"
They almost always pop up with a graphic that makes them almost impossible to ignore.

I don't care about twitter on television. If I wanted to know what a bunch of people I don't care about on twitter were saying I'd go to twitter and see all the great writing in 140 characters about Deadliest Catch and other shows.

At a minimum, find funnier or more racist twitter users so at least it will be compelling.

I cannot stand this trend. Deadliest Catch is seemingly the worst offender in this regard but there are plenty of others who do it too.

They are never interesting.
They are so generic that it is laughable. "@sunshineiscool Way to catch that crab!"
They often act like they are friends. "@charliesmiley I knew you could do it!"
They almost always pop up with a graphic that makes them almost impossible to ignore.

I don't care about twitter on television. If I wanted to know what a bunch of people I don't care about on twitter were saying I'd go to twitter and see all the great writing in 140 characters about Deadliest Catch and other shows.

At a minimum, find funnier or more racist twitter users so at least it will be compelling.

I may be taking an extended break if Baby McCown follows through with his end of the deal.

The news is great with this


It's coooooooooooooollllllllddddddddd #Chiberia #Fox32News

On Ch. 32 I've seen Anita Padilla, on several occasions, on location reporting on a story and then holding her phone up to the camera and scrolling through FB comments.

If you want local news in the morning you either have to deal with the inane Twitter crawl on Ch. 32 or Robin Baumgarten doing everything but falling off of her chair on Ch. 9.

On Ch. 32 I've seen Anita Padilla, on several occasions, on location reporting on a story and then holding her phone up to the camera and scrolling through FB comments.

Does she have a drug/alcohol problem?

And yet, they dominate the morning news ratings.

i saw some of the ABC 7 news at 5 yesterday, they were reporting on the crash on the Dan Ryan, one of the reporters was reporting from the passenger seat of a moving vehicle

THAT'S what I couldn't stand this past winter .... here we are in a crummy minivan in shit weather on shit roads and we're here to report to people what shit roads look like and add to the congestion and danger .... back to you, fuckers ....

@camps
I'll be glad when this B.Rick guy is on another extended break from the board!!!! #NYCSucks

I don't think she does, but it would at least explain why she's a bumbling doofus and so bad at her job. When I used to have Ch. 9 in the morning while getting ready for work, which would be for about 15-20 minutes tops, I saw her:

Frequently misspeak or mispronounce names
Burp on the air
Not be able to read when it was her turn because she had food in her mouth
Not be able to read because she was choking on food
Have a bag of chips on the news desk (that looks very tacky)
Not be at her seat when the camera cut to her

If she managed to do all of that during my very limited viewing I can't imagine how often she did those things during the course of a three hour show...or what else she did.

I think Robin stumbling/fumbling/bumbling around is a bit. An effective one, going by ratings. I watch and enjoy their show. tho not after 9 am, if I'm around to watch it that late.

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Sounds like my decision to never watch the news is as smart as my decision to never read a newspaper.

I have been off TV news for years. It's wonderful.