Posted on 05/28/2019 10:34:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
I would rather watch old reruns than “The Bachelorette”.
I’d rather watch a test pattern.
“She should have said: “If you missed any part of tonight’s ‘Bachelorette’ just watch the replay of the same episode number three seasons ago - the scripted dialogue will match, word-for-word, with whatever you missed on tonight’s show.”
I would have said: Not to worry. I’m sure they’ll be playing this episode over and over for eternity in Hell once these tornadoes kill you and send you there.
They could do the warnings instead of commercials and run a split screen full time. Instead, the weather persons tend to hijack TV programming for hours on end.
The weatherMAN is completely correct on this and if I were the station, I would back him up.
Just as an aside, I knew a gay co-worker in Austin who was spreading gossip that one of the tv weathermen in town was gay. Then I thought about it and realized most of them were probably gay.
Jamie Simpson seems to fit the mold. Now re-listen to his comments and it seems completely in character of a gay man.
The show ought to be called “The C*ck Carousel” or “The Baloney Pony Show.” Who wants to propose to a slut who’s just plowed through 20 guys ?
Well, he didn’t blow a gasket or anything. I’m glad he called out people commenting on social media. What’s the average IQ of regular viewers of the Bachelorette? And what’s the IQ of people who would comment about it being more important than tornado warnings?
Or just don’t warn such people and let Darwinism take care of the rest.
Simpson has been a broadcast meteorologist in the Dayton market for 20+ years. Originally worked at WHIO-TV, CBS affiliate; left there about four years ago after a DUI arrest. Probably knows more about weather in the Miami Valley than anyone else in Dayton TV, and that’s why WKEF hired him when they had the chance.
I completely agree with Simpson’s comments. Ask any broadcast met and they will tell you the same thing; any time regular programming is interrupted, they receive nasty calls, e-mails, texts and even death threats from viewers. Believe me, no one wants to come in late in the evening on a holiday weekend to handle hours of severe weather coverage, but it does save lives.
The only suggestion I would offer local stations: to placate the viewers who want to keep watching “The Bachelorette” while the EF-3 sucks them through their roof, push the show onto your website, or a secondary channel, then re-run it the next day. That should placate the cranks, while everyone else can get information they need to stay safe.
One final thought: it is very true that TV is not the only source for severe weather updates. Plenty of info available on-line and even through devices like your home security system. But an experienced broadcast met can be a very good filter, to separate the wheat from the chaff. On the other hand, if you’ve got someone less skilled, you wind up with “info” like we get from our local CBS affiliate. They have one of those super-duper Doppler 10 Million Max radars that pinpoints areas of rotation. So, they always point out the spinning discs on their screen, without explaining that rotation in a storm does not equal a tornado.
Simpson had no reason to apologize. Same people would have complained if his station did not provide warnings, or just crawled them across the screen in favor of “The Bachelorette”
It is so infrequent, getting a weather warning interruption where I live, that I do not recall the last time there was one.
Or how I reacted :)
But then, I’d swallow poison before I watched The Bachelor :)
I wish he had not apologized.
He was doing his job and if the viewers don’t like it, they can suck it up and not complain next time the NWS doesn’t give a warning and their lives are destroyed.
Exactly.
They're damned if the do and damned if they don't.
“Never mind 12 years. A few of you have 12 minutes to live. Ah, never mind.”
One Austin station back in the 1960s hired the meteorologist who had been working at the municipal airport to advise them on weather. James C. Fiddler was his name and he was the exact opposite of your skilled tv weather showman. He mumbled into his microphone. He turned his back to the camera while pointing. He abstained from any anchor banter.
But the guy knew his stuff when it came to weather and the newscasts became the highest rated in town because people wanted to know the truth about upcoming storms. He was a staple for over 20 years.
Then, one day he was arrested in a police sting dealing with pedophiles and his career was ruined. “Fiddler The Diddler” stayed on the air only briefly until the station could find a replacement.
But the guy knew weather.
Don’t over think it. Just laugh st the assholes.
The “ME” generation strikes again.
Lol
Something I do way too often. It never ends good!
Overthinking, that is.
I’ve never watched the bachelorette and never would but if you’ve ever seen how overly dramatic some local TV stations can make a weather event you’d understand why some people get tired of it. A weather warning that should take 30 seconds to convey some meaningful information with a radar picture turns into a 30 minute diatribe on how tornados are formed, storm chasers, and global warning while saying absolutely nothing of any practical use to people in the path. Repeat the theatrics nearly every day during the summer and people tune these blabbering drama queens out. It was part of the reason hurricane Katrina turned out so bad on the Mississippi gulf coast. The drama queens on the weather channel had advised people to evacuate about 20 times over the last couple of years for storms that turned out to be nothing so when a real no kidding hurricane was headed our way people didn’t take it seriously.
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