Dave Foulk Internet Flyer

While I’m on this particular topic, here are some other things I see on local newscasts on a regular basis.  They have to be brainchildren of someone who thinks it’s cool. At least I hope people wouldn’t pick these habits up on their own:

• live reports from places where something happened hours earlier, but where nothing is going on at that particular time.  “The scene was horrible this morning, but as you can see, things are back to normal “
• reporters who always start a live report with “Well….”
• artsy walk-around shots that can make you dizzy as you try to keep up with the visual perceptive
• visual aids that reporters cleverly hold in their hand..such as a chunk of asphalt, a broken limb (not human, hopefully), or the ultimate dream of things to hold in a live report: a charred baby doll.
• anenometers- wind meters-  If it is windy, we will see stuff blowing by or shaking, or the reporter being knocked down.
• reports on traffic from the side of the road-  You’re tying up traffic when people slow down to watch what YOU’RE doing.

There are more broadcast brainshowers, you recognize some of them, too- maybe from the fat guy on the radio.  I would like to hear them.