So I’m watching the KTLA Channel 5 news here in LA, minding my own business, when I saw something I’ve seen on the news for years and I guess it pissed me off enough to say something here (where I suppose a total of 5 people may read this). It’s the infamous “man on the street” portion of the news. Why would I care what the man on the street thinks? I’m AM the man on the street dammit! I remember during the gas price increases (more on that story in a later entry) all the news shows were running down to their local gas stations asking the drivers “how do you feel about the gas prices going up?” Well I would imagine most all of their viewers drive cars too. What sort of information are these interviews going to shed light on? Now KRLA does online polls that are about as useful as two dead flies to me. Why would I care what the unwashed masses think about today’s news? I listen to the news to hear what “experts” have to say. What’s sad is that hundreds of people actually take out the time to surf to this website and render their opinions on this pointless drivel. I would love to be in the board room when this idea was purposed. Are they running out of news to report to where they have to take up some of the time with this crap? I now have a perfectly clear way of telling a REAL news program from the garbage ones. Do they have a poll on their program? There you have it!
Dec 092006