Comments on: Model turns anchorwoman at Texas station

By: lauren

lauren — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:03:51 +0000

everyone needs to just calm down here… it’s just a TV show, a comedy, about a bikini model who is transplanted as a fish out of water… it will make you laugh… it’s a great concept so just be calm and wait ’til it airs… aug 21st, on FOX

see you then!

xoxo
L

By: katie

katie — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:08:14 +0000

it’s the office, meets small town texas.

geez, get a life. if it sucks it sucks, but why bitch about it just because she’s pretty?

who knows, she might surprise you.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:01:41 +0000

What Streit and others are mad about is that if she’s successful it shines the light on the dirty little secret that local news relies on people without a lick of journalism experience who look cute on TV and can read their lines without stumbling over them. I know for a fact that Brad Streit’s Channel 7, whose indignation knows no bounds over this, has, in the past, hired preachers, unemployed nonprofit executives and others without journalism credentials ho have actually done quite well as on air reporters. It’s local news for crying out loud. The producers are the ones doing most of the actual reporting anyway. Lauren Jones just did a story with us and she actually did a better job of getting the story “right” than most of the local reporters we have to deal with out here.

The local news directors would love to make you think there’s this big mystical thing surrounding local news reporting, but there’s not. You need to be able to write intelligibly, piece together film with the help of an underpaid editor and say your lines without stumbling - oh, and look good on camera. And you have to be able to work fast to meet deadlines. That requires talent, but it’s no mystery. Most relatively well-educated folks can do it so long as they don’t mind being seriously underpaid. Local news reporting for most people with any special gifts for it is only a stepping stone anyway. Oops, another secret slipped out…..

Don’t get me wrong, I love some of our local news guys, but many are not the sharpest pencils in the drawer. I’ve learned when we’re doing stories not to make things too complex for them. They’re in a hurry and they’ll forget all about you once the story is aired and you’ll have to re-educate them if something else ever comes up. The local guys are more humane, willing to listen and are more teachable than the network guys. I don’t disrespect them, but I don’t believe they are some special class of beings either. I know some local print reporters too and they’re just regular guys too - aside from the fact that they can write a coherent sentence on a deadline.

By: Tylerfan

Tylerfan — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:57:07 +0000

Jones is NOT appearing in a bikini. She is attempting to tell stories, and read the Teleprompter in a professional manner. All over the country there are on air personal who have little or no “Journalism” background. Most learn the game on the job. That is all she is doing, but at least she is honest about her inexperience, and she seems to have a desire to learn. In the end this show is a comedy. All the folks who are making the loudest noise will surely be in the “reality”show to help make the plot. I can easily see the story of all these mean, jealous people attacking our “poor innocent anchorwomen”. Who do you think the audience is going to side with in the end?

By: ???????

??????? — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:35:29 +0000

I’m not sure what all the uproar is about regarding this show. This model is attempting read the news, not run the country. People let us take a deep breath and relax.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:43:27 +0000

This station (what is it, KYTX?) has also had stormy since at least September ‘06. I blogged about Stormy 09-09-06, URL link. I don’t think he barked on mouseover then, that’s gold.

By: Anony Mouse

Anony Mouse — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:03:29 +0000

Eugene, Oregon NBC affiliate KMTR has had Helmsley the Weather Dog since at least Sept. ‘06.

By: Howard Owens

Howard Owens — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:41:31 +0000

I find it ironic that just a few doors down from this post is another post talking about how important “talent” is to a TV news show.

I guess there’s talent, and then there’s TALENT.

BTW: So what if Hurley said, “Journalism credibility? I think that’s somewhat amusing when all I see today on the Internet is porn, nonstop,” as he justified live sex on the news set.

It’s pretty much the same logical fallacy.

By: Allen

Allen — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:59:02 +0000

I just watched a few minutes. I thought she was pretty solid. If I didn’t know her background I would have wondered what she was doing in a small market like Tyler.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:57:52 +0000

Wow. Their web team must really be on vacation as Anchorwoman doesn’t even have her bio posted to the website yet. No convergence love for the newest member of the news team I guess.

Stormy’s real name is Baxter, btw.

By: Cory

Cory — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:36:56 +0000

Ooops, I thought they would stream the 5 p.m. live the way the link was worded, but it’s just the morning show replay right now. Maybe they’ll stream the 5 later this evening?

By: Don Day

Don Day — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:01:44 +0000

And when you rollover the dog’s picture in the masthead… he barks.

I couldn’t find the link to watch live on CBS19.tv (after I got the newsroom all excited…)

By: Celebrity

Celebrity — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:59:02 +0000

Look at the product of this newscast… it looks a mess…

By: Safran

Safran — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:42:54 +0000

“Truth be told, Hurley is an idiot.”

I’ll say. Sweeps ended a couple of weeks ago.

By: !

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:40:53 +0000

true to tv form, stormy has a bio too.