No joking tonight. A terrible tragedy in Virginia. No surprise the local stations had to scavenge for the local angle. They didn't go far. All had some sort of story at Wichita State. I didn't like the stations' routes of having two stories from the Wichita State angle. I (cant remember who did it this way) preferred wrapping the national incident and the WSU angle all up in a single story. After seeing so much on the national news it just seemed smart that way. I am curious though with the KWCH story from anchor Roger Cornish who had a story looking back at the Wichita sniper shootings from the 60's. I have several thoughts on this. First the story looked real good and looked like some time went into it. That leads to the question if this story ran before. One could say, it was a bit of a stretch to link the two together. I would say,, "No," but it might have been more of a fitting day-after story.
Enough about the shooting. First props to KAKE on a story about a backyard wrestling match that got out of hand. 2 things: it fits the KAKE demo (WWE viewers) and is just bizarre. The execution of the story is nothing to write about (or scream about in this case with the reporter), but the subject matter just kind of makes the story a great one. Second, after you do 2 local angles on the Virginia Tech stories, what are they thinking having a story about the beautiful Spring day and the excitement of buying spring flowers. I don't think I need Rachel Phillips to tell me that the selling of spring plants is big business. I just don't think of one of America's Deadliest school shootings and a beautiful Spring day really deserve to be so close to one another in the newscast. -Hal
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