irrelevant ranting

We can all agree that weather is important, I mean the weather decides what you wear and what you do to an extent, but do you really need to hear about the weather twice in 30 minutes? WHAS11 thinks you do! One thing that my Tv news group has noticed is that WHAS excessively covers the weather both on the 5 o'clock news and on their website. By now our group has watched the news a total of six times, and every night WHAS11 covers the news twice. Once at the beginning of the segment typically ranging one-two minutes in length, and again towards the end. the second coverage includes national weather reports and the seven day forecast, this story usually takes around five minutes. If we are talking extremes here that's about seven minutes every night spent on weather. If we assume that roughly ten minutes of the segment are spent on commercials, WHAS11 is spending almost half their show on weather. This would be more acceptable if the anchors didn't describe all of the n...

Today  might be a day that society breaks the norms and lets everyone dress up and scare people solely to get candy. However, it is not a day in which news organizations should break journastic standards. Just because it is Halloween does not mean that WHAS11 should throw their standards out the door. Apparently WHAS11 believes that it is important that the citizens of Louisville know about High Point, NC and their facebook declarations. According to WHAS11 about a week ago High Points facebook sent out a message saying that Mary Jane Peanut Butter Kisses were not an acceptable candy to pass out. The full story can be found here;  https://www.whas11.com/article/entertainment/north-carolina-city-takes-a-stance-on-popular-halloween-candy-no-one-likes-them/417-609943206 The story lacks local relevance and newsworthiness , treak or treaters in North Carolina have no impact on the citizens of Louisville, nor does this event impact a large audience for a long time.  Under "...

Jayme Closs; a name that has appeared in the headlines nationwide for the past week. I'm sure that by now anyone who pays attention to the news has heard the story of the missing Wisconsin teen. If you watch WHAS11 the story is all  too familiar, seeing as the story appeared on the 5:00 pm nightly news three nights in a week! WHAS11 also felt the need to list 12 different stories about the teen on their website. ( https://www.whas11.com/search?q=jayme )  Every good journalist is held to certain standards, this includes local relevance. I'm sorry to say this but WHAS11 has violated this standard multiple times. Sad as it may be this teen's disappearance has no local relevance to the citizens of Louisville or its surrounding areas. The only people who should be hearing about this are the citizens of Wisconsin. Jayme's story does not contribute to a larger movement, rather it seems like a lazy excuse for the channels lack of relevant news this week. As we were discussi...