Why I hate the local news
Do you have to suffer through crap like this on your local news – the crap that assumes you’re an uneducated moron that has never had to scrape ice from you car, or put on gloves or anything until their broadcast?
Check out these “9 tips to help you have a smooth commute” (I changed the video to this link because the damn thing comes on as soon as you arrive at the page and that drives me nuts);
Wake up an hour early and you can save yourself from some back-breaking work. If you wake up to your car still buried under snow that’s turned into ice, you have two options. Either use a lot of muscle to scrape it off or “I’d rather wake up early and use the defrost,” says one man in Rockville. That way the ice will melt on it’s own. Why work hard if you don’t have to? That would be my number 2 tip.
Coming in at number 3, it pays to spread the de-icer or ice-melt on side-walks. The pavement may look clear but keep in mind, “everything’s melted. so now there’s water. and it’s going to re-freeze overnight,” says Chuck Kelley, the manager of Strosniders Hardware in Bethesda.
Tip number 4, before you head out, choose the appropriate footwear. Or create it yourself by attaching a set of YAXTRAX for extra traction. “I haven’t seen anything like it. They’re fascinating,” says Eileen Solomon of Bethesda, adding, “it looks like you got stuck in a bear trap.”
Tip 5, if you want to avoid having to buy new wipers, make sure to leave them upright so they won’t freeze overnight, which leads us to tip number 6…don’t forget to refill the wiper fluid.
And for Tip number 7, take that extra time to clear the snow on top of your car. Otherwise, once you hit the road, you could be a real danger to the driver behind you. “If you’re driving at least even 30 miles an hour and suddenly you can’t see anything, it’s very unsafe. I highly urge people to clear the tops of their cars, says driver Suzette Tanen.
And tip number 8, if you’re a student who is still up late because you’re counting on being out of school Tuesday…you better hit the sack because chances are you’ll be in class. To find out the latest information, we encourage you to heed tip number 9…watch 9 News Now beginning at 4:30am and log onto our website wusa9.com.
Yeah, where do they find these producers that come up with these brilliant programming ideas?
Category: Media
WHAT!?!?! Let the car warm up for 30-45 minutes? What are these? Evil Rethuglicans? Think of all that polluting carbon dioxide that will be released. Aren’t they afraid the Global Warming police will come knocking on their door? Oh wait, I forgot, AGW is something you preach, not practice. Move along, all.
When Local News became as ignorant as afternoon soaps, when National news became so damned biased as to make me look for the donkey shit, I decided that there are other, more valid, sources of information. I don’t own a TV. I donated my last one to a local charity, and have no itention of replacing it. I believe that I am more informed by putting one hour a day into reading news online. This Ain’t Hell, Michelle Malkin, 4 Right Wing Wackos, and several others give me most of my news. Wundergound.com is an excellent source for incoming weather, and I read several papers online editions. (The latter with a large grain of salt.) When I see reporters refer to a small rubber tired backhoe as a “Bulldozer”, when I see an 18 wheeler in water “10 feet deep”, that is up to the top of his 3 1/2 foot tall tires, when I see a reporter in a canoe while others walk beside her in ankle deep “flood water”; then I am firmly convinced that I have not missed anything by giving my TV away. (But I do miss those COPS shows where the dumbass jumps a fence into the Pit Bulls back yard.)
Jonn, Michelle, n Ragin’Dave do just fine for me.
I have a local weather button and an Amber Alert ticker at my home page, and just don’t need to sit in an overstuffed chair, deteriorating,(I don’t own one of those either).
nuf sed
Here in the People’s Republic of MA it’s illegal to leave your car running unless you are in it. Besides what #1 said about destroying the planet.
BTW: She missed the advice we always get from reporters before cold weather here in NE; dress in layers.
C’mon, Jonn! None of us can be expected to remember from season to season what cloths to wear. Why, if we could don’t you think we’d remember what politicians say and do from one Congress to another? Wouldn’t we also remember just what the heck we were going to say when we started writing this comment…???
Where’s my froggy?
I don’t watch local news – it’s mostly about DC anyway. Doesn’t have much to do with us up here on the ridge (thank god) But I do listen to Rush on the local AM radio station and the public service announcements must be written by the elites from L.A. – you know, those tanned beautiful marketing bleeding heart libs that are so much smarter than everyone else and need to tell us all how to live, cuz, we’re just too stupid to know that one dresses warmly when it’s cold outside.
Makes you want to shoot something….
…and this sort of stupidity is precisely why I don’t even bother watching local news out of the People’s Republic of Northern Virginia…