Maybe it’s the line of the year, written by a WXIA staffer teasing last night’s 11 o’clock newscast:
A NAKED KNOCKER…IS GIVING SOME METRO WOMEN…QUITE A SCARE….
ONE VICTIM SHARES HER STORY…
The line teases a straightforward Kevin Rowson story about a flasher in northeast Atlanta. Rowson had the good sense to simply use that word: Flasher. Can’t say what got into the writer of this tease. And poor Ted Hall actually read it.
Yet the real question may be: Did the tease work? Did it keep WXIA’s prime time viewers glued to the 11pm news? Including the ones doubled over in laughter, disbelieving what they just heard?
Bet it did.
The video below is the package Rowson produced. The tease has understandably disappeared.
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Posted by tower child on March 12, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Didn’t help WXIA
here are the numbers
last quarter of L&O 2.3 6.3
first quarter hour news 1.5 4.3
last quarter hour 1.4 4.9
They got beat by wgcl
did you hear the line wgcl used about kiddie porn? “you may think it’s only done by dirty old men…”
Posted by The Veazer on March 12, 2009 at 5:32 pm
This happened in Sock Man’s neighborhood. Has anybody checked on Sock Man’s whereabouts?
[[ OMG -- so true! - LAF ]]
Posted by Bob on March 13, 2009 at 11:48 am
We we really want to see a flashers “package” ?
At least they didn’t say “Coming up” on Ch. 11
Posted by scott hedeen on March 14, 2009 at 11:40 pm
“A NAKED KNOCKER…IS GIVING SOME METRO WOMEN…QUITE A SCARE….
ONE VICTIM SHARES HER STORY…”
“sell it… don’t tell it”. If i watched news on TV anymore… i’d tune in. Sure… I’d think it was a Dada-ist take on the Tut exhibit …but then… that’s me.
Posted by scott hedeen on March 14, 2009 at 11:51 pm
“Flasher”
Addition. I want to acknowledge that… “flasher” is an old school way of being a perv. very 80′s. In the modern age of “connectivity” and “social networking”… it’s a very “retro” throwback (think the whole “cocktail nation” thing from 1996… ) way to be a complete sexual offender. I’m thinking like “Classic Weirdo Chic” is making a comeback?
Posted by Don B on March 15, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Geeee, I went streaking(very 70′s) back in college. Would that have been labeled a FLASHER in the 80′s? A pervert in the 90′s? A naked knocker in the 2000′s? When he gets caught, can he just tell the cop, geeeee, I was just streaking……………….
Posted by Nose Fernews on March 19, 2009 at 10:51 am
The only problem I have is the description of the flasher— come on, now…how many 5’8-5’10 black males are there in their late 20′s/early 30′s in metro Atlanta??!! That’s irresponsible– and frankly, no one is going to recognize the dude until he pulls out his wanker!