Comments on: Tough universe

By: English major

English major — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:27:29 +0000

Not to nitpick, but the questions are easy. It’s the answers that are “tough” for the interviewees.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:02:20 +0000

Wow, you cant even post on a blog without typing “tough questions.” When you guys go out to eat, do you ask the waiter — let me ask you a tough question, does the salad have cucumber in it?
You guys remind me of when my next door neighbor got his first frisbee, and all he could do for a week is talk about his frisbee. He must have said the word frisbee 100 times an hour, so much so that I just had to tune him out (I bet that sounds familiar to you). Just because you repeat the words “tough questions” doesn’t mean you are actually doing it. Your reporters are absolutely embarrassed by having to repeat that over and over as if the audience is learning the letter T while watching Sesame Street.

By: mosquechild

mosquechild — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:28:55 +0000

Russ,

What don’t you understand? We did a newscast followed by a 15 minute special highlighting our tough questions.

High school production you say? Have you been watching 11alive? They’re closer to grade school.

At this point there are two stations doing the daily, heavy duty investigative journalism – wsb and wgcl, waga might come in thrid but they only do their stories for the ratings period.

Show me 5 stories wxia has done all year long that reflects true, fresh, digging journalistic stories. The clock is ticking.

By: Virgil records

Virgil records — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:18:47 +0000

Russ,
You have been off the air for 20 years.
Let’s review your old 3/4 tapes with your stories to see if you have any “cred.”
Let’s not.
Sincerely,
The late Virgil Dominic

By: Sammy

Sammy — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:15:00 +0000

Hey WGCL – 30 minutes of Dagmar would be ok by me!

(with the sound off)

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:59:57 +0000

Trademarked…wow, and I thought it had hit bottom when Adam Murphy actually introduced himself to a person getting out of a car by actually saying, something like “I’m here to ask some tough questions.”

ONE MORE TIME WGCL, I don’t care how many questions you ask, it’s how many you get ANSWERED!

Looking at the auto package:
Little info on how to check to see if you were really ripped off, the name of the five “good” shop saved for the web (very uncool), and they missed the fact that you can’t always tell if brake fluid is contaminated by looking— water will kill a brake system, and you can only tell that by testing the fluid, which they dismissed as unnecessary.
My questions: How do I choose a good shop? What do I do if I think I’ve been ripped off? Is it a good idea to get a second opinion? What are the warning signs that you’re about to get ripped off?

The school package I missed, but it seems that was already asked, and answered, a long time ago.

The Grady story should have had less drama and more info. Compare Grady’s system to other county run medical units. Is the breakdown rate higher or lower than Gwinnett, Forsyth, or Cherokee? Might even get Rural Metro (a very large nationwide provider) to analyze the data and tell us whether there is a problem. Seems to me the allegations by the whistleblower should have been substantiated before this went to air.

By: rptrcub

rptrcub — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:53:18 +0000

It should be noted that they have, indeed, trademarked “We Ask the Tough Questions.” For reals. There’s now a little TM mark on it.

By: honestabe

honestabe — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:06:06 +0000

This is not a new phenom in this market.

On Friday’s nights all the stations title out their last quarter hour as part of a ratings strategy under the guide of covering HS football.

The station that really does look like a HS production is wxia. They don’t cover news they look and feel like a Grady HS production.

By: Clear News

Clear News — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:52:25 +0000

I think what you saw was a special for GCL’s Tough Questions push for sweeps… I too caught the newscast and was a little surprised there was not a clear definition to let the viewers know the news was over and this is a special report/ program. To mitch I am not sure why you think GCL offers a high school feeling as far as production and execution I think GCL has cleaner shows and pkgs compared to the top two stations in town. And not to forget XIA I will go out on a limb and say they have the best photography staff in town even though Ellen treats them like dirt. I guess if clean shows and well told stories are high school feeling newscasts then I would rather watch H.S. tv than channel 2′s jumpcut off the shoulder and overexposed liveshots any day.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:49:58 +0000

That’s what you get for watching the most unwatchable, high-school feeling newscast anywhere in these lower 48 states. I guess you will think twice and next time turn the channel, just like the rest of Atlanta does every night.