Jason Sandford
Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.
Welcome, Larry – again
WLOSer’s must be reading Ashvegas. Yesterday, we posted our own little welcome to new anchor Larry Blunt, but WLOS just got around to it Thursday afternoon. Blunt’s been around for about a week. Still, “Tallahasee” Tammy, sporting some nice new highlights, did her usual charismatic job of making old Lar feel welcome on the set.
JenX fails firefighter challenge
With short-timer JenX headed for the studio doors (she’s leaving WLOS for a new job somewhere else), she’s phoning in her reports. She went back and redid a story she’s already done – the tried-and-true “firemen’s challenge.”
In this challenge, the burly firemen says, you put on an air tank and haul some shit up several flights of stairs, drop it, pull some shit up on a rope, drop it, run back down, hammer a weight about 10 feet, grab a hose and yank it for awhile, make the hose spray, run over to 125-pound “Rescue Russ” or whatever his name is, drag him through some shit, then drop the dummy.
Oh, and you’ve got two minutes.
Well, we knew Jen was in trouble from the start as she grunted getting up the stairs, walking the last several steps. It got worse. She couldn’t move the weight. She only a got a trickle out of the hose. And she needed help with the dummy (no, not you, Jay.)
No word given on her time.
Terrible reporting on terrible story
Holly Headache gave us a headache this afternoon reporting some big breaking news about a gruesome find at an Ashvegas recycling center.
Holly reported that it was a “full-term fetus.” Uhhhhh, Holly: isn’t that a baby? There’s no such thing as “it appeared to be a full-term fetus.” It was a baby, or it was a fetus. Figure it out. Ask hard questions. Demand specific answers.
The Sheraldo shout report – poo-poo in the fur
Sheraldo’s message to us from the WNC Ag Center fairgrounds: wash your hands after you pet the animals at the Mountain State Fair that starts Friday. That’s because there have been cases across the state recently of kids getting sick after petting poo-poo fur.
At least it was a new twist on the same old story: state inspectors were out “in force” to check ride equipment and make sure everything was safe. Fine and good, only it still doesn’t work. A couple of years ago, a fancy chairlift at the fair malfunctioned, and several people got stuck on the ride. Luckily, nobody fell or was hurt. But they had to have the fire department get them down. Did the inspectors do their job?
a “full term fetus” is a medical term..look it up.
it means the baby could survive outside the womb but was not born yet..(at least 38 weeks)
when the story aired first, investigators were not sure if the baby was born alive or not…so they called it a full term fetus..
Blunt looks like he is reading the TelePromTer through a haze of too much cough medicine.
Either that, or maybe the floor camera crew is trying to show him a card trick during the broadcast.
(Is it just me, or does this guy make anyone miss the Kracker Rocker?)
The real question on my mind is how long until Diva Darcell comes back from ‘vacation’ and we see her sitting on the TV throne beside the new king?
Maybe Darcell and Larry can discuss preferences on cleaning products for their respective fake hair.
KABOOM! rumble, rumble, rumble, Lightnin’ has spoken.
-WL-
PS- Maybe WLOS needs a pronounciation guide for their REPORTER’s names… Bluntman butchered’s Mary Jedlicka the other day.
Anybody else catch that?
his first week on the job makes it obvious he only got the job because he’s older than the inhouse candidate…
when did hiring or promoting the most qualified go out the door??
You should give roses to Scottie to Hottie, as hard as that may be. His comment at the end of Jen-X had me rolling on the floor in the living room. I believe it was something along the lines of, “We’ll I know who I don’t want coming to my house if it was on fire… oh no im just kidding, she does a good job.” Just classic.
Well “Blunt” may be the operative word for the new main anchor. Is it just me or did ole Lar seem a bit blunted yesterday? It was like his reactions were on a ten-second delay to during the reports and happy chat. He better get on his game if he is going to be able to chat up the Diva and make it seem convincing.
i don’t know what’s scarier – kids getting sick from animal poo poo, or the fact that wlos has to remind parents to make sure their kids wash their hands after touching an animals at a petting zoo. part of me thinks that they’re condescending to their audience.
because, you know, they’re better than we are.
“grab a hose and yank it for awhile,..” – huh huh… huh huh huh… huh huh…
The baby story is horrendous any way you look at it.
I want to try the “Fireman’s Challenge.” I’ll take on JenX.