On Thursday, it's back to the airport, telling people "Hey, it's busy here," as if seeing all the people in the background will make you go "Okay, I won't travel this year. It's too crowded."
Then of course, like clockwork, comes the day after Thanksgiving and Black Friday (the day that traditionally retailers' books are supposed to go into the black). So you sit at home, watching other people at midnight rush through the doors, risking injury to get that cheap deal. Of course, if you cared that much, you'd be there with them. But regardless, we put two, three, sometimes four reporters on shopping, when really one would tell the story just fine with the occasional exception of a Tickle Me Elmo or Xbox riot at the store – and who doesn't love a good shopping riot which will eventually end up on YouTube?
And just for fun, we also show you what happened when doors opened at stores across the country -- as if the mad rush at the Boston Best Buy was so much better than the one in Bellevue.
So my question is this. Is this something you enjoy watching every year? Do you wish we'd spend less time on travel and shopping and more time on other news? Or are you too sluggish from the tryptophan in your Thanksgiving bird to care one way or the other?
Good rant there Travis. Sound like me talkin to the wife about the news. I do like to watch the idiots get trampled in the malls and dept stores. 90% of the time you can get better deals on Ebay etc.
Let me throw another log on the fire before the next trampling clip gets shown.
Dont forget the several segments where we're reminded by purple haired nose pierced stoners that Thanksgiving is a horrible holiday and we should be ashamed of ourselves and our country.
I want 90% hard news on all broadcasts. Whoever turns on the TV expecting to learn what's going on in politics, the war and on the international scene is delusional. Producers and reporters are professionals who should not assume serious events take a holiday break. Stop asking viewers to tell them what is news. They have access to venues the average viewer does not. Get down to work, cut the bias, jettison travel, shopping, measuring snow drifts with a yardstick and 'if it bleeds it leads' stories to FOX.
those are just stories which have no bearing or meaning they are useless, they are what the news stations like to call human interest or fodder, all news stations know they have to have human interest stories WHY people like them and watch them. There are many more important things they could be reporting on but they are all told what and when to report on certain stories
Hey, Travis, it's not just at Thanksgiving. It's every day. Just put Jean and Dennis in different outfits and have them read the same script from yesterday or the day before. And it's the same on the other local channels. You news folks all cover the same stories in basically the same way. Even the camera angles are the same. By the time I get home in the afternoon, I've been monitoring the local, national and international news during the day on the internet and on the radio on the way home. If something "really big" has hit the fan, it'll be the lead story. I watch the first 10 seconds and when I see Dennis and Jean trot out the same tired stories, I'm immdeiately over to Seinfeld or Spongebob Squarepants. I'm 54 years old and I'd rather watch Seinfeld repeats or Spongebob than have my eyes glaze over with the SOS.
I am shocked at the use of "gossip" websites as legitimate sources by channels such as NBC. Just this morning, Today was quoting TMZ as a source for one of their leading stories. Something is wrong with our priorities today.