Jason Sandford
Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.
WLOSers cheer for Steeltown
Tallahassee Tammy, Diva Darcel and Mike Cuervo all jumped on the Steelers’ Super Bowl bandwagon Friday evening. Figures.
Tammy started it by saying that “the boss,” (Loebig?) was a Steelers fan, so they were going with what the boss said. This all came after some dumb story about a teacher in Seattle who grew up a Steelers fan. He promised his class he’d shave his head if Seattle won. Who cares?
Anyway, Cuervo wondered on air if the boss would shave his head if the Steelers lost. Well?
Correction
WLOSers twice repeated a correction Friday to a story that aired on Thursday, the whole gay-bashing-that-wasn’t-really-a-gay-bashing story. Both Tammy and Darcel read the correction, in which they said that their report Thursday that the victim of the beating had, himself, been charged with a crime was not correct. Tammy and Darcel said the report was based on police investigative records that were not yet complete. They again repeated that the man had not been charged.
Such an emphatic correction, read twice, is extremely rare for WLOSers. Guess they really don’t want a lawsuit over this one.
Russ loves Big Momma
Tammy and Russ “Beefcake” Bowen got silly over “Big Momma’s House II.” Russ said he absolutely loved the first one and couldn’t wait to see the sequel. Really? Russ likes to watch a man dress up as a woman and act stupid? Really?
Snow on Monday?
Cuervo says it might snow on Monday. For the second day in a row, he put up a graphic showing just how little it has snowed so far this winter. We’ve only received a trace of snow this winter, and we’ve just about made it to February. The past couple of years, we’ve been hit with 16 or 17 inches for the season. Does that mean we’re going to get it all in February and March? I sure hope not. And Cuervo, we haven’t forgotten your winter snowfall prediction.
Bulldog wonders
– After watching the promo for Jon Le’s report Thursday night on two “rappers,” I got to wondering: Where does WLOS find all the jackasses that keep appearing on our screens? You’ve got lard-ass city workers, mullets at the gas pump, bleached-blonde Tammis with an “i” outside WalMart, toothless wonders on their front porches – every variety of sideshow known to man, every night on local TV news. Does wearing a suit and tie automatically disqualify you from having an opinion worthy of airtime?
But back to the original question: How does WLOS manage to find all these characters. Do they have a list? Do they canvas particular neighborhoods? Or do they just pick out a homely face and say, “Hey, wanna be on TV tonight talking about the threat Hamas presents with its newfound political legitimacy in the Middle East?”
Seriously, I want to know. There’s got to be a simple answer. After all, we are talking about WLOS here.
Hey! I posted a comment on here last night and it has not appeared. Is this a forum, or a censored vanity project that only features the author and his friends?
Speaking of corrections, I don’t expect the WLOS dumbasses to run one on their inflammatory, sensational and unproven allegations Wednesday that a "dangerous Latino gang" is responsible for graffitti being sprayed around Hooterville (that’s Hendersonville to you Ashevillians).
The bubbleheaded bleach blond came down and reported that some folks think the graffitti is being sprayed by Latino gangs. You could almost hear the fear in her voice: "Help, the brown people are coming! The brown people are coming!"
Turns out it is probably just a bunch of high school drop outs who may or may not be Hispanic. Did it ever occur to the WLOSers that it could be white kids immitating gang art they have seen? Or bored brown kids playing pretend? But that doesn’t grab the TV dimwits’ attention like a "dangerous Latino gang" that’s "been linked to violence." This is what happens when the news reader tries to do their own story without a newspaper to spell it out for them first. Weiners.
I guess I wasn’t thinking it through. It’s like the UFO specials on cable TV. When was the last time you saw a guy in a suit sitting behind a desk describing the UFO he saw the night before. It’s always some yahoo with a wife that looks strangely like she might be a first cousin standing in an Indiana cornfield.
It seems to me that such has always been the bias of local news reports. Doing a story on city planning? Find the toothless woman with three kids, she’ll tell you all you really need to know about why they need a traffic light at the trailer park entrance. Wondering what those strange lights were? Your go to guy is the mullet guy. It’s become so much of a staple that they parody it on King of the Hill.