Another Flippin Burger Story

OK, maybe the title is going a bit far, but more on that later.
The winds of early this morning were a cause for a number of stories on the newscasts this evening. In fact KAKE was able to squeeze 3 stories out of it. I thought that was going a bit too overboard. Deb Farris' story gave me the facts of damage in Ark City with good illustrations of the damage. But then Jennifer Bocchieri had a story on a different town with damage. If you wanted an example of a how a story can be filled with cliches and overused lines from the many other weather stories this had them all. The end proved it with a line something like despite all the damage thankfully no one was hurt in this storm. Proof that maybe 2 stories on the storms might have worked (Ark City and wrapping the other town into it and then a separate story on flooding and Moran coming to area). I would say that even 2 would be stretching it.
Sticking to cliches, KSN attempted to play off of the event of the night at 6, with the Shocker baseball team in the NCAA Tourney at Eck Stadium. All too often when news people do sports stories they all come out the same, either at a bar with fans, or at the game with fans. If the game hadn't started yet it usually has something to do with game preps. KSN's Anne Meyer did the later and showed a guy flipping burgers and some other guy talking about the game preparations. I didn't think it worked at all. Someone could say, Hal, what are they supposed to do? I say be in the moment and be creative and fun. Its Friday. The Shockers are in the tourney and hosting it, so have some fun and be creative. If the unique angle to the story, besides flipping burgers can't be found, then just turn it into a fun piece. After all the storms and flooding stories today, an angle like that could have gone over well, instead of one just because the Shockers are in a tourney its a story no matter if its a weak angle. Now that's not to say I wouldn't have criticized a piece like that if it were too fluffy, but at least it maybe wouldn't have stated the obvious. -Hal