Hello Everyone, I wanted to ask people have you seen TV lately? I was getting an oil change and was stuck in the waiting room. The TV began playing a local news forcast. It was surreal to say the least. I asked another patron is this normal? I have not watched TV for years now. What i was seeing was the anchorman who was disheveled and unshaved. He looked like he could not be bothered to take care of his appearance. The woman on the segments were so heavyset that they had doublechins. I recognized no one and was shocked seeing such an unprofessional appearance. I remember that it was important to present a professional well maintained presence in the news room. This was anything but. We live in strange times. Share your observations if. You would.
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We turn on local news regularly just for the weather and have noticed a mass rotation of new people. We barely get used to someone, and then they're gone and replaced with someone else. This is never addressed directly to the audience. All goes in line with my "where is everybody?" theory concerning the labor shortage. I think people are dying in droves or at least being vax-injured to the point of not being able to work anymore. The boost to unemployment checks is long over, and unemployment itself runs out eventually. So...where is everybody? I freak my husband out when I talk about this, but damn, I genuinely want to know. But back to your topic, yeah, local news shit is getting weird.
I’m there with ya. I mean it’s like people are disappearing. No one to work jobs. Everything is just...less. And no one is talking about it. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills! The phrase...”well it’s not crowded”, is becoming an understatement.
Right! It's just so odd.
I don't watch tv. If I did, I would hate it.
I love the simplicity of your statement and I second it ✌🏻
Occasionally I see commercials when my roommate turns on her YouTube TV and it's surreal. I don't see anything that actually looks like America. Its like a reality show gone luciferian in the Matrix. No wonder these people are so fucked up.
What I have noticed is that the reporters sound like kids in a high school drama production rehearsal, reading a script.
They use a forced portrayal that is so unbelievable that I actually laughed and turned off the TV.
It's like when you have been out of a bad relationship and run into that person years later. "WTF was I thinking!?" and "That poor person who is with them, now!"
We watch the top of the local "news" for the weather and to see if the local pimps, druggies, and gangbangers are active in our area. Other than that, my wife and I agree that our local "news" is just as bad as the national MSM, maybe even worse.
Their journalistic standards are laughable, stories are usually half-baked and leave more questions than answers, and are pitched by people who are horrible at pronunciation, enunciation, and basic logic.
And the quality of the local reporters is also laughable....sing-song voices that cannot simply deliver 3 or 4 sentences informatively, and one weather gal whose ample body often obscures the map she's referring to. A few of them have that millennial nasal twang that is nothing more than irritating.
So yeah, you're right, local news (at least in this market) is definitely shoddy.
I wonder if you got the same weather woman who was at our station for about six weeks? My wife and I would complain the same thing about her...until I think someone actually complained to the station and she started moving to the side of the frame so she wouldn't cover up the whole forecast!
She was the forecast: Cloudy, with a chance of meatballs.
Ok. That’s really wierd. Gonna check that out.
I haven’t watched local in forever. They are usually just a less professional version of national.
I wonder if it is because they all know it is all lies and the mental stress is catching up with them.
I HAVE noticed that a lot more of them have a bit of a 'dumpy" appearance. The most obvious thing these days is that they obviously have NO clue what they're talking about most of the time..
Cable TV is becoming a thing of the past. I haven't had any local channels in more than 10 years. It would be normal as their viewership goes down, the budgets go down, and quality goes down.
I'm not sure our local city even has a newspaper any more.
They don't have to look nice when nobody watches anyway.
Yes! I noticed this and mentioned it to my spouse. I remember when they were beautiful, with shiny white smiles and smooth hair. It seemed to be part of the job description. Never a wrinkle in their clothes. There’s definitely something that has changed. Is it because they are trying to be overly “inclusive.” Is there a discrimination of pretty people now?
Our local crews have a bunch of geys ... Or at least very soft spoken guys .. Sports dudes and weather guys are fat and then women are a mix .
Likely a result of legalized marijuana.
Budgeting issues? That might be part of it.
We have no local news here, town is too small. BUT, I've noticed this on my trips to the post office. One male employee was nice and clean, wore the uniform shirt with a tie, very professional. EVERYBODY else were slobs! Dirt ratty clothes, greasy hair and I expected one of them to burp in my face. No professionalism at all. I see that a lot and wonder how they get away with it. Guess I could go elsewhere?