Your Local News Coverage = Stupid

Local news is important. Obviously there are far too many stories of interest each day for Brian Williams to cover all of them in his neat half-hour broadcast. But the number of local reporters has swollen in recent years and, I'm sad to say, this has resulted in backstabbing competition between anchormen. There's nothing wrong with a little local competition, but things are getting out of hand. Instead of getting better news, we're getting whatever crap executives think will pull in the most viewers. Here in Memphis, the unsuspecting public is subjected to endless updates on the alligators spotted in a local lake and how they may or may not kill everyone who comes near the water. Why is there a news team that has the time and effort to report on something like this? Because there are too many news teams. Dear, dear, dear.

(By the way, the reporter whose picture I have used to illustrate this point does not fall into the typical local-news-category. I love her. Just, FYI.)