WCVB: Local Live Coverage You Can’t Count On

[Ian David]

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

It is the great misfortune of WCVB-TV that the hardworking staff of Campaign Outsider generally chooses to watch its newscasts over the other Boston stations’.

What follows, however, could be said of of virtually all local newscasts.

YOU’RE NO LONGER LOCAL!!!

The “local live coverage you can count on” that ‘CVB endlessly flogs is actually “elsewhere canned coverage you could live without.”

Take Monday night’s NewsCenter 5 at 11. (Alright. Please.)

Three of the newscast’s stories were straight off the satellite feed:

• A “Billboard Battle in the Bible Belt.” From the ABC News website (WCVB is Boston’s ABC affiliate):



More:
http://campaignoutsider.com/2010/07/20/local-live-coverage-you-cant-count-on/

Hat-tip to: http://twitter.com/universalhub/status/18990852765

[activa8tr]

1. And there was really a LOT of local news in Mass/NH on Monday eve

and they staff had been on the air at 7 PM for an hour pre-empting regular programming with warnings about a possible tornado.

So I, for one, don't know why they chose to cover something from the midwest that makes no sense and is not even "news" at all.