Posted on 05/28/2019 10:34:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
“I’m done with you people, I really am. This is pathetic,” Jamie Simpson of Fox 45 in Dayton says
A meteorologist for Fox 45 in Dayton, Ohio snapped at viewers who complained on social media about a tornado warning that interrupted Monday night’s broadcast of “The Bachelorette,” saying that the cutaway was due to a “dangerous situation.”
“I was just checking social media, we have viewers complaining already. ‘Just go back to the show.’ No, we’re not going back to the show, folks. This is a dangerous situation, okay,” Jamie Simpson said during the live broadcast.
Simpson scolded viewers who cared more about who Hannah Brown would give the next rose to than to a dangerous weather situation, which has caused massive damage to the region.
“Think about if this was your neighborhood. I’m sick and tired of people complaining about this,” Simpson said. “Our job here is to keep people safe, and that is what we’re going to do. Some of you complained that this is all about my ego. Stop. It’s not. I’m done with you people, I really am, this is pathetic.”
Fox 45 did not immediately respond for a request for comment. However, Simpson did apologize later in the broadcast.
“Alright, I’m sorry I did that, it just really bothers me that we have people that don’t care about other people’s safety around here,” Simpson said.
Fox 45, or WRGT-TV, is a dual Fox and MyNetworkTV affiliate owned by Sinclair, which also owns ABC 22 in Dayton, which airs “The Bachelorette.”
Watch the video of the situation above.
Are we agreeing with her or not, Red Badger?
I agree with the sentiment but not a good way to keep your job :)
—Herman Wouk
Totally on her side here.
I have sympathy for her.
She huffed and she puffed,
people changed channels,
and she blew her job down.
I would have added, "And besides, it's all scripted BS, anyway!"
Good grief. Watch it on abc.com the following day.
Just ignore it and do your job! Nothing says you HAVE to respond.
Television weather is irrelevant.
Their job is not to keep people safe.
Their job is to entertain. Perversely, bad weather is entertainment. It is not news or a safety alert because your cell phone gave you that information several hours and several minutes ago.
The world would be a better place if all television news teams were carried off to Oz and never heard from again.
Man needs to learn not to argue with fools.
Just do your job and if people screw up it’s on them, not you.
Or him. :)
Good for him. It was a really dangerous situation and the local news did its job well to cut in on the programming.
Should just let idiots be idiots and do your job. They’re the ones who’ll look like morons complaining.
These shows are all nothing but scripted soap operas.
He could have been a little more tactful.
Tact:
The ability to tell someone to go to Hell and make them feel glad to be on their way................
There are few shows I hate more than The Bachelor / Bachelorette ...............
LOL, I would have gone Basil Fawlty....
“Well, stay where you are, because obviously, if there was a fire, you’d all be standing down here like this in the lobby, wouldn’t you? I don’t know why we bother! We should let you all burn!”
UGH, now if it were a NY Jets game....
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