The local tv news out of Cleveland is not worth watching. One station does something and the others follow suit. It use to be that in a half hour newscast the weather would come on and in one time slot and you received all the information at that time. Now the same weather forecast is broken into 30 second to one minute segments and scattered thought the newscast.
Another thing they do over and over again is tell you what story is coming up. They spend more time telling you what is coming than they spend on the story. One of the latest things is to have viewers send in their storm pictures and they show them as if the end was in site. Also don't forget about the one minute spent on telling us "don't forget to all us to your friends list on Facebook and oh yes we are on Twitter".
In one newscast the announcers have their lap tops in from of them and want you to enter their chat room. Look the tv is in one room and the computer is in another. If I got to chat then I cannot watch the newscast or commercials. Doh!
Just today I was watching and one station equipped their camera vehicle with a dash mounted camera and the call into the station via Skype and broadcast the driver going down the interstate. Like we have never seen snow on the roads. Plus all the warnings of texting, using cell phones and now they have this. Yes there is distractions as there was conversation between the driver and the newscasters.
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