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December 25, 2007
Never meta sucker... Local news fawns on itself
In Chicago, the Disney-ABC affilated WLS puts their news performers in a glass bowl open to a public that gathers on the sidewalk on State Street that makes the midwest look extremely backward. (Yes, I know the Today Show started the talent-on-display gimmick.) But not as much as this prime slab of self-important narcissism, when on Sunday night a car piloted by a reportedly mentally distressed man plows into the fishbowl and becomes the most important story of the hour, if not the day, if not ever, uh, y'know? We are waiting for the police to get in here and start an investigation... I'll tell you, it's been very startling for us here in the studio, uh, to see a car literally crashing through from State Street, right into our studio. So there you have, right there, a live shot, that's maybe a good 15 o 20 feet to my right as we sit here.... And I can tell you, it was a loud, loud bang.... This might be from our Macy's cam..." Murrow smiles down from the heavens with his memories of the Blitz...
Posted by Ray Pride at December 25, 2007 06:16 PM
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