Recently this silly blog managed to grab the attention of its 400,000th set of eyeballs. At around the same time, it recorded its 3000th comment. That doesn’t necessarily speak to its popularity as much as it speaks to my inexplicable persistence in crunching out new material every week. One reason for the persistence: My stats [...]
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28 Jun
Emmy notes
Scanning the list of winners from Saturday’s Southeastern Emmy awards, a few things stand out. A TV station in Columbia SC beat WSB and WAGA in the Investigative Reporting category. WLTX produced a report in May 2008 about South Carolina prison inmates stealing the identities of Citibank card holders. The inmates sold the information from [...]
18 Dec
The Cult of Dagmar
The subject of this post is kinda the proverbial gorilla in the room, an issue mostly sidestepped on this modest blog. Dagmar Midcap is the foremost face of WGCL’s news, a weather forecaster without any meteorological bona fides. But that doesn’t seem to matter (in light of that, though, it’s always amusing to see WGCL [...]
11 Jun
Weathergirl
“Desperate” is not too strong a word to use to describe WGCL’s quest to find an audience. “Shameless” may or may not be too strong. Shame is for people with pride. As the fictional Marcellus Wallace said, pride only hurts and never helps. Loosened from those bounds, WGCL has long favored promos like the one [...]
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