Curious Hair wrote:
(sigh) I realize that local news has had to, in recent years, to...evolve in certain ways to...to meet aging viewers where they are, so to speak, to use meteorological journalism as a pretense for a, for a sensuousness and titillation that is otherwise absent in these sad people's lives. And I get it! I totally do. I was that sad person. I was the only person in Chicago watching channel 2 news in the last 30 years because I wanted to appreciate Megan Glaros's enormous boobies.
But (sigh) there is a difference, however much a scintilla, between a talented journalist who happens to be nice to look at and someone who is...perhaps using the local news industry -- what's left of it -- to market herself as something more than, or different from, what she is paid to do for her job.And when it is clear that your primary allegiance is not to the art and science of journalism but rather to...(sigh) to attracting one of several championship-winning athletes, or perhaps someone associated with a hate website whose name we won't mention...then it becomes hard to believe in that person's integrity as a reporter. This isn't Green Bay. This isn't Rockford. This is the third-largest media market. And members of Media Market. And I suppose the...the paradox inherent is that she wouldn't be doing choreographed dance routines in Green Bay or in Rockford, where there is no expectation of journalistic excellence, because she realizes she wouldn't be plucked from obscurity there and wouldn't deign to live there anyway. I know I wouldn't. Not again.
I just...(sigh) I feel as if we've crossed a frontier with the extent to which this event has been produced. I cannot imagine this same...this eliding of roles from Roz Varon or Tracy Butler or Mary Ann Childers. Tim Weigel, probably, but only as a bit.
Probably the funniest thing is that this is not really exaggerated at all...
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W_Z wrote:
we continue to live in a real-time "monsters are due on maple street."
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