Time for the "Oh My God It's Cold" Stories
It's 13 degrees in Boston today, with soul-killing gusts of icy death. Know what that means? It's time for idiotic newscasters to file their "Hey! It's really cold outside!" stories.I watched a local reporter prep for one of these inane reports as I crossed the frozen tundra of Copley Square. You could tell he was a reporter because he was the only person within Boston city limits who wasn't bundled in 14 layers of therma-gear. Hurricane-force winds threatened to de-puff his wavy hair. Pity.
Is this the best broadcast news has to offer? Do we really need the "it's cold outside" and "it's hot outside" stories, especially since the weather segment generally covers this sort of thing? Along the same lines, under no circumstances should a news broadcaster be allowed to cover anything to do with sports. It's embarrassing when they get players' names wrong (Manny Ortiz?) and their "analysis" makes me grind my teeth ("It's April and the Sox have lost three in a row ... time to panic, Boston!").
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