The BIG STORY on Philly Action News tonight is...

[PCIntern]

the WEATHER of course...

It IS a BIG STORY...see, they predicted snow and ice all weekend...and temperatures of, get this 35-40 degrees. Now in Grade School, we learned that freezing temperature of water is 32 degrees, so you would think...

However, in this age of the BIG LIE, you can convince people that it's gonna snow and sleet when the temperatures are way above freezing and many will believe it. As one poster pointed out, the Milk and Bread Consortium has paid for this forecast and it's gonna happen no matter what.

Of course, it only rained...pardon me, DRIZZLED, this weekend, so of course, we needed to review this "Nightmare on Market Street" all day on Monday. So...

The first story this evening was....DRUMROLL..................the motor vehicle accidents caused by the storm of the century...fender-benders all over the place...as though there are none on 'normal' weekends. People here in the Delaware Valley forget how to drive when the road gets wet. The news van..."There's that Action News Van again" (their publicity phrase a couple years ago) had to drive, oh about 80 miles north of the city to find an actual tree which fell into a house when loaded with ice! Wow! And on and on...

Of course, three stories later, there's the 'hero's welcome' for the poor G.I. who was brain-damaged (their words, not mine) by an I.E.D. during this oh-so-proper-and-just-war. Not once, NOT ONE TIME has anyone who's a member of the news media in Philly gone on the air a la Walter Cronkite and said WTF's going on here. But whattya want from a group of very peculiar folk?

Meanwhile, our local hot anchor babe Alycia Lane, who's been married and divorced about 437 times, allegedly punched a NYC female cop in the face and caller her a bad work reserved for lesbians. this got no coverage so far at all whatsoever, even though she was sitting in a jail cell for a very long time for doing this. Let's see if there's a call for her resignation...I doubt it.

And that's all the news that prints to fit.

[chelsea0011]

1. I love the action news stations around the country. There nothing

happening except car crashes, fires, animal stories, and of course as the post mentions, the weather. Channel 7 in Boston doesn't call itself the action news but it is as close as we can get. They once did a story about a goat that fell in a hole in Indiana. It was one of those 30 second quick hitters that action news loves. I sat their wondering why as someone living in Boston would give a rat's ass about a goat in a hole in Indiana. But the story was over and next up... a car crash.

[Karenina]

2. NOTHING will change until Americans

TAKE BACK THE MEDIA. (.com) SURROUND THEIR TRUCKS and STUDIOS. DISALLOW "bidness as usual." Target and BOYCOTT their advertisers.

(I can DREAM, can't I?)

[PCIntern]

3. NO!!!1 You CAN'T!!!1 Seriesly!!!1

U have to get with the pogrom...I mean PROGRAM!

:hi:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. We are inconsequential until the voice of the people of this nation

have a vehicle of conveyance. The corporate media is denying us our voice. They are hateful to me.

[PCIntern]

5. My kid just read 1984...

she came to me and said, "Amateur Hour, right Dad?"

[HCE SuiGeneris]

14. Need to balance that now with something like Catch 22 to really accentuate the human condition.

I read both of those books when I was around 11-12 and they had an enormous impact on my life. All the Kurt Vonnegut novels followed...
I think busting out loud laughing while reading is sheer bliss.

[Karenina]

8. TAKE. BACK. THE. MEDIA.

The airwaves belong to the PEOPLE.

[KamaAina]

6. It actually can snow up to about 36 degrees F

of course, it probably won't stick to anything if it's that warm, unless it had just warmed up and the surfaces were still cold.

Something to do with it being colder in the upper atmosphere, and the flakes not having time to melt in the short space between reaching above-freezing temps and hitting the ground.

[PCIntern]

7. I know...

the snowdrifts were really spectacular.

Could barely get to my swimming pool.

[Bonhomme Richard]

9. LOL, is Jim Gardner still doing the news.

I remember when Jim O'Brien did the weather. The poor guy died skydiving.
My wife calls it weather porn and it is no better here in CT.

[PCIntern]

12. Yes and...

He got really old
His first wife threw him out of the house for reasons which will go unmentioned here
His cadence hasn't changed one whit...

I was sitting an an Iggles (sic) game and word spread around that Jimbo's chute didn't open properly. I used to eat dinner 2 tables away from him once a week at a City Ave. Deli for 2 years. As nice a guy as he seemed on camera, he never once acknowledged anyone sitting near him, even his own tech people from Channel 6.

[Bonhomme Richard]

13. I miss the area. Born in Bryn Mawr, raised in Havertown but........

most of my family is from Wayne, St. Davids area.
I really miss the food.

[bbernardini]

10. I don't know what area around Philly you're in, but it didn't drizzle here, it POURED.

Flooded my basement a bit, too.

[PCIntern]

11. Eastern Main Line...

No sweat in my neighborhood...