Yea Brandi…you are a true TV “reporter”. 🙂

I would just suggest there should also be awards for the news directors who send their Dope Reporters out to do these stories. Some Dope News Director back in the days when “live reporting” first became a reality, decided it would make his stations newscast “better” and more “meaningful” if he sent reporters out to do live reports at 10pm about events that happened anywhere from 2-3, up to 24 hours earlier.

These Dope News Directors believe that we viewers are so stupid we will believe we are hearing something “new” if the reporter is standing in front of a dark, empty building at 10pm.

I would suggest that we deserve something far better than we’ve been given by our local stations in terms of quality “news programming.” General Managers and News Directors apply the same philosphy to designing their news programs that the network executives use to design prime time programming…that you must appeal to the lowest common denominator to have success. What that means is that the majority of people sitting on their couches watching mindless tv shows like Everybody Loves Raymond, are the least educated people in America, and they are the majority. They have nothing better to do with their lives than watch the crap on the tube. But, they make up the numbers, or “ratings”, that drive the networks to keep dishing out more and more crap. The same mentality is used by the Dope News Directors who think we’re all stupid enough to believe we’re getting “updated” information because its “live” at 10pm.

Citizens of the Treasure Valley should be calling, writing, e-mailing, picketing…something…to express their anger at being fed crap by Dope News Directors and children playing the parts of reporters on TV…and the General Managers who hire them. WE DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS.

Brandi looks as if she is auditioning for a part in the made for television movie “Oliver Twist builds an Ark”…..”Please sir, may I have some more”. Dope!

ACTUALLY, I sort of like Brandi, (She’s cute, young looking and she rally does act naive.)
BASICALY can’t you just almost hear that nasty camera “dude” making her back farther into the river for a better shot? “Back just a bit more – – – c’mon, just one more step- – – really just a bit more- – – Trust me now- – –
Do you suppose that she would have been SHOCKED or STUNNED had she taken that one last step into belly button deep water?
(Carolyn Holly’s act, with the lightening getting closer and closer just before the KAPOWW and her sudden disappearance, was classic local T.V. news. Thanks for the rememberance chuckle.)

But Sis, if we didn’t watch what would we have to chortle about? If I couldn’t poke fun of the way Carolyn Holly masacres EVERY ethnic name she attempts…gee I really miss Heidi Bodine…she was more entertainment than news. It was like dinner and a show every time. I can’t recall the name of that guy during the foothills “flood” several years ago who went wading and interviewing toothless homeowners, but that was pretty comical. Today my chuckle comes at the report that Jay Friday, resident of Brookwood subdivision ruined his “Nordstrom pants” to rescue his “Audi” from the raging Dry Creek. What a pity…I’ll bet those pants were good ones, too! (hehehehehehehe)

Chet said, “WE DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS.”
Nope, Buddy, if you’re actually sitting there watching that crap right along, you probably *don’t* deserve better.
Spend your time on something useful — like sitting here B.S.ing with the Boise Guardian, or reading Boise Weekly, or working crossword puzzles — all more entertaining and infinitely more educational than most of the TV “news,” both local and national (or so I’ve heard; I haven’t actually seen any of it for four or five years, but I love to eavesdrop in coffee shops, bars etc. (also very educational somtimes).
— gp
P.S.
Fraz: I hope you’re not going to limit your Dope awards to the flooding. Seems likely they could be a good year-round activity with plenty of material and competition.
— gp

Now hold on, Ysabel Bilbao, Idaho Snooz Channel-7, was seen crossing the ‘raging flood waters’ to get an interview with a man whose house was “on an island.” She even looked back at the cameraman while she was making her way to the interview. And she was carrying the tripod too! What a trooper! She gets my vote!

Logan,
I think you’ve missed the point. Nobody is suggesting reporters shouldn’t cover floods. We appreciate reporters covering such events, we just don’t like being treated like idiots who need to see a reporter standing in 3-4 inches of water to “illustrate” to us that there is water on the ground. See, we know when it rains. We know when it rains a whole lot. We drive to work in that water. We drive home from work in that water. We look out our windows and see all that water. What we look for from the “news” is what sort of damage that water might be causing.

The reporters job, or I should say the photographer/reporters team’s job is to show us pictures of the damage, report the damage assessment, and if warranted, tell us what the authorities say about when things will be back to normal. What we definitely do not need, is a reporter who thinks what we really need to see is her, or him, standing in the water. To see some fool standing in the water is totally meaningless to me. It tells me nothing. It shows me nothing other than a fool and it has no news value at all.

Now, in a real flood, where the water is chest deep and running at high speed, a reporter might want to jump in after saying something like, “watch how quickly this raging water will wash me completely out of sight.” That would illustrate a grave danger. Standing in a few inches just doesn’t have that sort of dramatic impact. 🙂

Well, since quality news reporting is a thing of the past… how about one of the so-called “news” directors just getting real honest about the fact that it’s all about having cute little girls on the screen. Next time theres a few inches of water on the street, have one of them appear in a bikini, or better yet, a thong … laying in the street in a Sports Illustrated style pose…maybe doing hourly updates on whether the water is any higher than the hour before.
No offense to Mr. Logan, but I’d prefer NOT to see his water wings. 🙂

And if you think local is bad try checking out cable news. Fox “News” is still talking about some girl who disappeared in Aruba last year and pretend to have new information where there isn’t any.

Also, it is ok if you are a male “reporter” to look like hell warmed over, but the females all have to have perfect skin and wear about a half inch of lipstick. I don’t know how they do that. Perhaps they have all had collegin injections as a condition of employment. I think it is creepy.