KOCO and Swine Flu

[MTgurl62]

This whole business with the swine flu is silly. I work in a doctor's office and ALL the media has over dramatized the situation. If you really think about it, they ALWAYS over dramatize things. It's all about ratings and who can come up with the most shocking thing they can.

As for you guys who like News 9.....they are ok, except for Gary England. You want to talk about an arrogant jerk in the middle of a bad storm. I've NEVER seen the weather people on the other channels interupt their co-workers by saying rude and condesending things while on air. Gary is a dinosaur and needs to retire.

[drumsncode]

This whole business with the swine flu is silly. I work in a doctor's office and ALL the media has over dramatized the situation. If you really think about it, they ALWAYS over dramatize things. It's all about ratings and who can come up with the most shocking thing they can.

As for you guys who like News 9.....they are ok, except for Gary England. You want to talk about an arrogant jerk in the middle of a bad storm. I've NEVER seen the weather people on the other channels interupt their co-workers by saying rude and condesending things while on air. Gary is a dinosaur and needs to retire.

I don't mind Gary, but the weathercast in times of trouble gets very hectic and noisy. Seems to me like Mike Morgan keeps things quieter on the set during tornadoes and such.

The one that kills me is Rick Mitchell. If there's a cloud, he'll interrupt anything and everything he can, and like the Terminator, he simply WILL NOT STOP until you are dead! (You know what I mean?) ;-)

The other guys are long-gone from the air and back to programming, and there's Rick, lecturing about clouds and all sorts of things ad nauseum.

I love it when he can't dare interrupt the programming, like when there's a really important show on, and you can tell it just kills him to have to do commercial breaks only! I'd like to see him try and preempt the NBA finals, that should be good for a riot at the station. :-)

Plus, I just realized we're all digital now, so they can broadcast all that crap on channel 5.2 and leave regular programming alone. That's what 5.2 is for!