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Offline Mike M

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4665 on: October 15, 2009, 06:18:12 PM »
Quote from: Martin on October 15, 2009, 06:11:37 PM
As I predicted... the kid lied to his parents. The 6yr old was hiding in the attic.
Gee, all this for nothing? :rolleyes:
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4666 on: October 15, 2009, 06:19:06 PM »
Wow, epic fail.  :rolleyes:
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4667 on: October 15, 2009, 06:23:44 PM »
Has TWC finally decided to stop embarrassing themselves?  :P
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4668 on: October 15, 2009, 06:26:31 PM »
Notice how they quickly dropped the story? OMG a kid could have flown away in a balloon..... oh wait..... he was hiding in a box at home.    oops.....3 hrs of non-stop coverage for nothing
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4669 on: October 15, 2009, 06:30:55 PM »
Two parties at fault.  The brother for lying AND the police - they "searched" the house before escalating the incident.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4670 on: October 15, 2009, 06:34:05 PM »
You know the staff of Weather Center is cursing now that they actually have to cover weather and do real work. :P

Also Matt I think the media is also at fault. No reason whatsoever to blow it up like this. They all look like fools!
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4671 on: October 15, 2009, 06:40:42 PM »
Wow, I missed quite some action...  :blink:

Just heard about this "balloon boy" story as I left Music class, and hearing that TWC was covering it, I was like WTF. They need to cover an upcoming nor'easter (or possibly DOUBLE) today and throughout this weekend and now I hear that Today's top story is OMG A BOY GOT STUCK INSIDE A BALLOON. uhh, where's the  :censored: weather in this story?

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Oh, he lied. BS!!!! O M FREAKIN G. This makes me even more mad. Covering a pointless story that has nothing to do with weather. This is even worse than WUWA IMO. This is what I have seen as the BIGGEST FAIL EVER. TWC, you fail as a weather news network. Nuff said.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4672 on: October 15, 2009, 06:44:24 PM »
I agree Ana. This is the WORST I have ever seen TWC do.

3:40-4:25 Balloon Boy coverage without commercials and lf
4:25-6:12 Balloon Boy coverage with commercials and lf. No weather segments at all
6:13- Awkward moment with NBC reporter who says it was all a joke.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4673 on: October 15, 2009, 06:51:02 PM »
I'm with you guys on that as well.
I'm truly disappointed at the fact that TWC wasted their time (as well as other news networks) to put something like this out there to the public when it came up to all be a joke.  :angry:
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4674 on: October 15, 2009, 07:00:58 PM »
Quote from: Martin on October 15, 2009, 06:34:05 PM
Also Matt I think the media is also at fault. No reason whatsoever to blow it up like this. They all look like fools!
Meh.  They had nothing else better to discuss today (outside of TWC - but remember - they broke into longform and very easily could have continued with wx coverage at 4:00 since the incident was over).
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4675 on: October 15, 2009, 07:02:09 PM »
I'd rather go back to the days of Ernesto/Alberto coverage. At least that dealt with weather.

Do you think we'll see an apology from the parties responsible for wasting so much coverage time?
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4676 on: October 15, 2009, 07:23:46 PM »
Quote from: ABC7 on October 15, 2009, 07:02:09 PM
I'd rather go back to the days of Ernesto/Alberto coverage. At least that dealt with weather.

Do you think we'll see an apology from the parties responsible for wasting so much coverage time?
no
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4677 on: October 15, 2009, 08:15:23 PM »
I totally agree with Ana and Martin.We have a really bad nor'easter hitting us right now,and as Ana said,calling for a double.The flooding is gonna get really bad here,and all they're talking about is a  :censored: balloon boy story. I watched my local news at 6:00.They spent about 1 minute on the story(if it was even that long).But TWC spends 3 hours talking about it.That was wayyyy too ridiculous!  :club:
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4678 on: October 15, 2009, 08:19:25 PM »
Quote from: Martin on October 15, 2009, 06:44:24 PM
I agree Ana. This is the WORST I have ever seen TWC do.

3:40-4:25 Balloon Boy coverage without commercials and lf
4:25-6:12 Balloon Boy coverage with commercials and lf. No weather segments at all
6:13- Awkward moment with NBC reporter who says it was all a joke.

That's an awful lot of pointless coverage there.

Quote from: skaloveexx33 on October 15, 2009, 08:15:23 PM
I totally agree with Ana and Martin.We have a really bad nor'easter hitting us right now,and as Ana said,calling for a double.The flooding is gonna get really bad here,and all they're talking about is a  :censored: balloon boy story. I watched my local news at 6:00.They spent about 1 minute on the story(if it was even that long).But TWC spends 3 hours talking about it.That was wayyyy too ridiculous!  :club:

For me, only my NBC affilate has "expanded" the story.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4679 on: October 15, 2009, 10:31:47 PM »
I am VERY dissapointed coming here and reading that The Weather Channel (?) spent SO much time covering this story :rolleyes:  I am upset that other news outlets have been covering this story so extensively.  Talk about lack of attention for the boys parents.  I don't even have any words for this :rolleyes: 

If I wanted more on this story, I'll turn to a news channel.
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