Comments on: News Directors at 11

By: jennifer

jennifer — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:47:25 +0000

Steve,

I agree with you a bit about local news. Although I don’t find it depressing, I don’t always care about a police chase or shooting … unless the reporter can tell me a good (well thought out and well written) story. I too like NPR. The News Hour and newspapers are also good.

I get most of my news by surfing the internet and following stories that interest me.

By: Steve Simmons

Steve Simmons — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:58:03 +0000

I’ve stopped watching local television news because it is so depressing and crime-filled. I agree with Crooke that we don’t need to be presented with the day’s list of who shot whom and all the terrible things people do to each other. With the way most of us get our news online with such speed, by the time we watch it is as “breaking news” hours later on TV, it’s old news. Perhaps they could give us some context and enterprise reporting since that gap isn’t being filled (especially by a shrinking AJC).

I want to like 11Alive because they at least try to give us news we care about instead of a police scanner recap. But I just can’t get over the annoying way Ted Hall writes so casually in incomplete sentences, as if he’s asking me a question. I’ll stick with NPR and an occasional check of AJC.com … when their home page isn’t covered in “can you spot the difference” Photoshopped games.

By: kicker

kicker — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:39:50 +0000

Please, they don’t have crime tape? Ha. You clearly don’t watch them.

And on the crime stories where they don’t have it, it’s because they’re just late.

And her created assumption that everyone else ledes with crime all the time is just wrong.

Heck, I don’t believe WSB lede with it Monday night.

WGCL rarely ledes with crime.

Fox, well, they’re the real crime station.

WXIA is lost in a sea of morass…face it.

By: spaceyg

spaceyg — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:36:47 +0000

Again… here’s Crook: “There as no crime scene tape involved.”
http://tinyurl.com/lo3y89

By: spaceyg

spaceyg — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:36:53 +0000

This just in! Monica Pearson reveals all about Peach Pundit:
http://vimeo.com/5093979

By: kicker

kicker — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:10:02 +0000

Spaceg… so as you say it’s not about content, about truthfulness but just making someting up on the spot.

By: spaceyg

spaceyg — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:01:06 +0000

Crook was anything but “full of herself.” She seemed perfectly capable of steering through whatever challenges their station is facing, and I’m certain ALL the TV news stations have boatloads of “challenges” right about now.

When someone asked the question about what, specifically, had the local news farms done that was innovative lately, Crook had an interesting, compelling, techno-based event to cite. One the WXIA audience had responded very favorably to.

The others answered with non-answer vagueness such as, “What’s innovative at XXXX is that we’re focusing on content.” WTF?

Hell, whomever said that gets an “F” in Imagination. He could have just made up something, anything, on the fly that sounded semi- impressive. Couldn’t even do that.

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By: Jack Buzz

Jack Buzz — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:13:48 +0000

Ellen, seemed totally full of herself. It seems to me that she is in some serious denial. She puts up a narrcistic, arrogant, iconoclastic front, to mask the fact that her station is facing some serious challenges. A corporate parent that has been hit hard by the economic downturn, massive job cuts, pay cuts, and furloughs at her station, and then steep ratings declines in the May book. There 11pm is now last and a big drop off for their morning news program as well.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:16:15 +0000

I thought it was an okay lead, and newsworthy, regardless of what the other guys led with at 11 on Monday night. I was flipping around (Ch. 2 was on late because of basketball). And I can’t remember the other leads that 2, 5 and 46 came up with that night. Maybe that’s the point. I’m sure someone else will come up with the list and reasons why any one of them was better. I think it was one of those nights when nobody had a lead so everybody’s lead was different and debatable. I could be wrong, that’s what it seemed like, nothing impressive that night anywhere.

Hey, the double-charging at Starbucks happened on Memorial Day weekend, on a million transactions — how much per transaction did Starbucks make accidently? — it just came to light, and even Starbucks is not guaranteeing that it reimbursed everybody who was accidently double-charged. So, no, Starbucks did not fix it, Starbucks admits that probably not all customers got paid back.

I just googled starbucks. The story is near the top (as of early Wednesday morning). Lots of news outlets across the country picked it up on Tuesday after 11 ran with it on their 11pm, from what I can tell.

Maybe it’s news only to people who use debit and credit cards. No matter where they use ‘em. So that’s why I was okay with it as a news story and as a lead news story on what seemed like a quiet night.