What a waste of air time

Tom said:

One of my pet peeves and no apologies for getting on my soap box.....

I'll be watching CNN and they'll say something like "here's what the blogs say". There are two gals reading blogs from large (or small) monitors. Why would any TV station put something like that on the air? If I want to know what someone wrote in a blog I'd go read it. If I don't know about the blog, by all means give me the URL, but don't have someone reading it on the air. My finger immediately goes to the remote to change channel.

.....off my soap box.

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But it's gone downhill over a number of years.

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Tom said:

One of my pet peeves and no apologies for getting on my soap box.....

I'll be watching CNN and they'll say something like "here's what the blogs say". There are two gals reading blogs from large (or small) monitors. Why would any TV station put something like that on the air? If I want to know what someone wrote in a blog I'd go read it. If I don't know about the blog, by all means give me the URL, but don't have someone reading it on the air. My finger immediately goes to the remote to change channel.

.....off my soap box.

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thebrits said:

I agree, Tom.  My pet peeve is the cult of personality of the various newsreaders.  Who cares who they are.  They're supposed to give us the news, not be the news.  And I don't care about their opinions, either.

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BruceinFL said:

The worst thing that's happened lately is the new set on the Weather Channel on weekends. They've turned it into a talk show kind of thing with couches and witty(?) banter among the forecasters. HELLO...it's the Weather Channel!!! I turn it on to get the Weather, not a cutesy talk show.

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thebrits said:

And if I see one more idiot in an anorak out in a hurricane, I'll scream!

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