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What’s in the news on Easter Sunday? Nothing local

Jason Sandford March 23, 2008

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

Did WLOSers have Easter weekend off? Sure seemed like it. There was precious little local news at 6 p.m. on Sunday. With Terrie Foster at the helm, WLOSers led with a feel-good story by Carolyn Ryan on Chimney Rock’s Easter Sunday sunrise service. There was no meat to the story, just a lot of schlock about a couple enjoying the service backed by a lot of pretty video of sunrise in the mountains.

WLOSers went straight from that to a story about cleaning headstones at God’s Acre cemetery in Old Salem, then to the weather center where we heard that it was a sunny day. Then a story about some lakes in Durham re-opening to the public after drought closed them.

Then WLOSers said that next Saturday, there will be a memorial service for John and Irene Bryant, the Henderson County couple found dead in the woods. There have been no charges filed, but everybody thinks Gary Hilton did it. He pleaded guilty to killing a woman in the Georgia woods.

Next up on our local news broadcast: A body found in Burke County; the death of a man who fell from a waterfall at Stone Mountain State Park; two injured in a fiery crash in the Triangle (no word on conditions); and a story about this being the last day to see School House Rocks! at Asheville Community Theater.

So much for your local news.

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Bmac March 24, 2008

I’m tellin’ ya, they’ve got one reporter and one photographer on the weekend. Whoever is running the show doesn’t want to shell out the cash when he can use a skeleton crew.

One story is pretty much all we’re gonna get from WLOS on Saturdays and Sundays unless it’s off the wire.

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Tarpon Springs March 24, 2008

Since Cecil Bothwell left the Mountain Xpress, the "newspaper" has been at sea, slowly sinking to the depths of the Titanic.

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Jeff March 24, 2008

The pictures were worth watching that story at Chimney Rock, beautiful! But again, without Russ on the weekends, that crew is lost at sea.

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