The last post sure brought a crazy collection of comments. Anon 17 brought up the story of a discovery of what witnesses say looked like a human foot in a South Hutchinson Alco parking lot. At least two stations on Wednesday broadcasted the story of a human/animal severed foot being found in South Hutchinson. On Thursday it was discovered some guy had the bear's foot and was tired of it being around. He must have thought there was no better place for it than an Alco parking lot in South Hutch. At least he called police and let them know what he did, otherwise today we would have had newscasts lead with the story. Oh. Ooops, we did have a newscast lead with the story! KAKE, at 5, had Cayle Thompson get to the bottom of the foot mystery.
http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/16340786.html
I understand stations may have been desperate for a different lead other than Boeing, but a bear foot discarded in a parking lot? I think Anon 17 wrote it best: I think it would have been better to end the newscast as somewhat of a lighter or humorous story. I totally agree. It has merits to be a story with a reporter. I am sure it will be the subject of many water cooler conversations on Friday, no doubt about it. How many days does an Alco parking lot become the temporary home to a foot, thought to be human, but then discovered to be a bear's? Not often, so a fun, tongue-in-cheek and humorous story talking to residents would have been the way to go. Making it the lead was a little crazy.
Pringle's Fan Club: KAKE morning weather meteorologist Ben Pringle should have a fan club. He may only be on vacation, but a reader said they heard Mike Iuen say on Yesterday's Noon show, "I almost stumbled and said Ben Pringle, who is no longer with us." I received quite a few comments after the post. His picture is still on the web site. One comment says he is on vacation. Who knows, but for a former main weather guy, now morning guy, he sure has a solid following. Maybe someone needs to establish the Ben Pringle fan club or a blog in his honor.
Over 20,000 Visits: Thanks to all who have visited this little forum. This past week Wichita TV News reached a milestone of over 20,000 visits. That number is even higher, because I didn't add the counting application until I had been doing the blog awhile. Also, "Hi to the Philippines." Whoever it was, probably will never come back to the blog, but we had some International visitors this week. Also Hi to what looks like Cape Town, South Africa. -Hal
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Jesus people Pringle is on vacation get a life! And I think Sue is taking vacation in a week and so is Jeff at the end of the month....just so no one starts any rumors should I post the talent vacations for the rest of the year here?
I hope the 6PM producer at 12 or anyone in their control room won't enter a spelling bee this weekend. On a story about gas prices they had problems spelling prices. Not only was it wrong on the screen before the story, it was still spelled, "Prises," following it as well.
Hey.. "Jesus"... why don't YOU chill out. Mike may have misspoke on the news, or said something so quickly that made it sound like Ben was gone for good, or it was a misunderstanding. Whatever it was, it's because someone thinks Ben is generally solid and well-liked. A simple "he's on vacation" would be fine. You're obviously one of the annoying people who make this blog unproductive.
I can list plenty of examples of spelling errors from KAKE and KSN too. Everyone makes mistakes.
No doubt spelling errors happen. In fact last night KSN had a word spelled wrong in a graphic (cannot remember the word now) durring a story with their new reporter, Aja. The thing about the KWCH mistake is you would think they would have not used the graphic twice, before and then after the story. You would think even if the graphics people couldn't change it during the story, they would have had even a basic KWCH logo handy and appear on the monitor behind the anchor.
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