Ashvegas just couldn’t let this little comment go to waste, so we share it with you here. For some reason that only the dunce of a writer knows, it was posted under the “Tavern Town” blogpost, which had nothing to do with WLOSers.
Check it out, from I wish I had Friends, which we suppose is a dig at us:
Do you have a life outside of ripping on the hard working people at WLOS-TV? Did you get fired from there…oh wait they never wanted to hire you. Are you all alone today, tonight and everyday? Is that why your so mad at the people at WLOS-TV? They have a life and you don’t. I understand…no I don’t I spend my days and nights with friends and family. You must love going home to your computer and several hours of recored newscasts from the station that would never let you report the news. If you have the guts you’ll post this so you can get a taste of your own medicine. GET A LIFE AND FIND A NEW HOBBY.
Listen bitch – my blog, my topic. End of story. Go back to wrestling in your big Pampers and leave the blogging to us.
We love how people who think what we’re doing is stupid, yet they get so enraged by it. The fact is that we have thousands of readers, and we’re growing every day. And we’ve got big plans to make this site bigger and better than ever by fall.
As we’ve said over and over, nobody’s mad about anything. We just want improved content from WLOS. You’re right – reading a Teleprompter is very hard work. Sticking a camera in a person’s face and asking them to pour their hearts out is honorable, difficult work. Boiling a complicated, important community story down to 30 seconds of entertaining video can be incredibly straining.
All we’re asking is that the news be reported responsibly, thoroughly and with less hype a little more context. Until that happens, we’ll remain the critical voice of reason of sanity that readers have come to know, love and expect.
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Dearest Spackle..
Ever heard of ABC News One, CBS News Path, or NBC News Channnel video feeds to affiliates? Used to be done via satellite.. now done fiber optic over the Internet.
Produced reports sent out to stations to revoice and insert into their newscasts.
Maybe I know a lot more about local teevee news than you think… who’s the moron now? Hell, maybe I even work at WLOS.
Kaboom! … rumble, rumble, rumble… cancel spackle’s to-go order… spackle just got served.
Maybe now you should just be called crevice?
‘Let’s go crazy’
– WL –
Three Things 1) Larry’s hair is real. I have seen him out in the rain and that hair is real. It is just heavily hairsprayed.
2) If they reported all the community issues you wanted them too…no one would watch. They pander to the market. The market makes their voices heard via ratings. If you hate the stories and the coverage, blame the viewers. If those retards didn’t gobble this crap up, it wouldn’t be on the air now would it?
3) White Lightning has no idea whats going on at news 13. I’ve worked in local news before, and he seems to be some kind of crazy person with an insane vendetta against against local news. Its not great, local news is almost never great, get over it and stop jabbering about crap you clearly have no idea about.
I.E. Health headlines are satellite feeds??? are you a moron?? Do you know how risky satellite feeds are?? And to do them like that, every day, especially in bad weather, is impossible.
I really enjoy your site. All "local" news is so badly done that it’s nice to see someone poking a little fun at it. Keep up the good work!
Want to know where I got my idea, Mike?
Picked it up in a little place called reality. You should visit. It’s nice here.
The photogs at WLOS are a decent bunch .. but most of the ones I know have said they dislike and sometimes even distrust the egobags they have to work with.
As for me not having a clue, show me one of WLOS’s "three-to-ten minute pieces of in-depth journalism."
Can’t seem to find one… not in "13 minutes of non-stop nonsense" … not even during sweeps when Larry Blunt wanted to ‘expose’ the fact that seedy stuff sometimes happens at porno shops.
Oh.. you’re probably trying to count "Health Headlines" which WLOS gets via-satellite and the TV head just reads.
You know, the one with interviews of people you’ve never heard of who live in Illinois and Nebraska if you pay close attention.
Weak. Weak. Weak.
Kaboom! a former WLOSer is still.. a LOSer.
Lightnin’ has spoken.
– WL Forever-
I’d be curious to know where W-L gets the idea WLOS "bullie[s] officials/people" into starting their meetings/events at different times. If someone decides his/her event is worthy enough of the teevee cameras that they stage it at a coverage-friendly time, that’s his/her choice. If Bele Chere wants the logo unveiled or Manna wants the Giving Tree lit on "live" TV, and thus schedules it between 5-6:30, it’s their choice — nobody bullies them into it.
In my post-WLOS life, if I schedule a news conference or kickoff event and want WLOS to cover it, I choose a time that’s most conducive to what I know of their ability to get a photographer and/or reporter to the event. That’s not being bullied, that’s being smart. It doesn’t guarantee I’ll get them out for it, but makes it more likely than if I schedule it for 3:00 or 3:30 in the afternoon, when I know the dayside crews need to be back at the station putting together their stories for the early shows and the night crew is still figuring out everything they’ll cover on their shift. And if I still have to schedule it at 3:00 or 3:30, then I know not to be too hopeful of coverage. Again, I’m not being bullied, I’m just being cognizant of the realities of the TV news cycle.
And while I enjoy the chance to rip them as much as the next person here, it really shows you have no clue when you call them "fake people." Most (and there are exceptions, of course) of them are among the most genuine, nice, caring people you’d ever want to meet, who happen to be in a business in which the customers (with the exception of a few critics like those of us here) won’t sit through a three to ten minute piece of in-depth journalism.
Rock on White Lightnin’ and Ash! I wish I’d said that. I like to call Wlos the snooze leader. They are pathetic.
i have a difficult time listening to larry’s comments cause i can’t take my eyes off of his hair. i don’t know what i’m expecting it to do, but i want to see it if it shifts or something, i guess.
there’s got to be a local toupee shop where he could take his in and have some gray hair mixed into it. i’m sure they could give him a loaner to use while they’re working on it.
now that would be a newscast i could really enjoy!
Listen to a police scanner one night and you’ll hear how much WLOS misses. But hey who cares about real news I’d rather hear about the energy loop or some wacky Jon Lee story.
Actually it’s hard not to poke fun at WLOS.
You tell ’em, guy! We do love you. Thank you.
O, and I, and many others, can vouch that you do have a life. A very full life.
You forgot to mention that it’s pretty easy to proclaim you are "Western North Carolina’s News Reader" when you’ve bullied officials/people into waiting to start meetings/events until you arrive.
Also, ever notice how they like to stand in front of empty buildings at night? The inane patter dripping out of their pancake makeup heads usually sounds something like this:
"Behind me, like 6 hours ago, something happended at some meeting… Not really sure what happened, I left early to go get sushi.. but now I’m reporting LIVE. Back to you twits in the studio!"
WLOS sux. They, like many people in TV News, are pretty fake people who provide more ego than content at 5, 6, and 11.
I know it. You know it. Everyone knows it. We ain’t hitting beLOW the belt, it’s no BIG secret.
Knowhatimean?
Oh, and Darcell and Larry have fake hair. There, I said it. And I didn’t stutter. Dosumthinboutit.
Kaboom! rumble, rumble, rumble, … the truth will set even WLOS free..
– WL –
"Listen bitch – my blog, my topic."
Wisdom! Attend!
(Which is Orthodox for "preach, brother!")
You need this on a t-shirt. Hell, we all need this on a t-shirt. Make it a good design and try Cafepress 🙂