Had we checked our email more often, we would've seen this email on May 27th:
The folks at Channel 6 News, at 5:00, did their TOP STORY on how inconvenient road construction is at 33rd and Farnam. Are they really so lazy that they only go two blocks for a story and decide it's the most important due to proximity to their building?
Answer: To use Steve Martin's line, "Is a bear Catholic? Does the Pope shit in the woods?"
Another email, this one from May 30th, asserts:
I'm here to tell you, I've discovered that WOWT stands for "Where's Our White Trash?". As of late they have been managing to find the trashiest people to interview and they seem all for it.
Two recent examples:
A story about some woman who thought a local tax preparer had stolen her child's identity. With trusty panic-button-pusher Mike McKnight and a camera crew in tow...This woman goes storming into the tax preparer's office and just starts screaming and shouting at this man. It was positively painful to watch...Like I'd accidentally flipped over to an episode of "Maury"
This other one...Even better...They managed to find somebody who was displeased with the evacuation procedures during the chemical spill down by the zoo. And they get this lovely woman on the news to proclaim that the city did "a piss poor job". And they didn't have any qualms about putting her tirade on the air either.
I think its becoming obvious who this station is trying to cater to!
Response: We'd be the last to defend the Suxers, but Channel 7 is pretty good at scraping up their own bottom-feeders. One recent story focused on a similarly trashy mom who made her kids (including a sobbing toddler) stand at the corner of 132nd and Center with illegible homemade signs to punish them for their misbehavior. One nice shot showed her watching them from the comfort of her folding canvas chair.
Finally, one reader sent us this screencap featuring working typical of Channel 7's "webmaster" Shiloh Woolman (speaking of trashy). Writes said reader: "Maybe the should have 'over-arrested' him." Keep up the great work, Shiloh. ("You bet!" she'd surely reply.)
