Viewers Voice: disagreement on what we’re covering
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Viewers Voice: disagreement on what we're covering...
One viewer disagreed with what we led with last Friday night, writing, ?I was very disappointed to turn on the 6pm news to see that the first headline of the evening is about Friday football and the...One viewer disagreed with what we led with last Friday night, writing, “I was very disappointed to turn on the 6pm news to see that the first headline of the evening is about Friday football and the weather. There are so many more important topics (such as the missing Virginia Tech student) to talk about rather than if it might rain during high school football games. Come on!!! This should not be the first topic of the news!!!“ It was signed “a disappointed viewer.”
WSLS responds: trying to determine what the lead story should be is one of the most difficult parts of a producer’s day. At times it is obvious. Other times it is not. But, we always try to lead with the story that is the freshest and has the biggest impact on our viewing area. When you cover 23 counties, that can be tricky. But the weather is something that has a broad impact, particularly when it involves Friday night football. Granted this might not interest you, but it certainly interests many, many people in the viewing audience.
Finally, not one night has gone by since Morgan Harrington went missing that we haven’t updated people on the case. It’s not always the lead, but it is certainly one of the biggest stories we’re covering.
Tiffany Bohon called in with a loud complaint about a story she says we missed.
She said, “You had absolutely no coverage of the Thriller World Dance last night for Thrill the Roanoke. And I’m calling on behalf of everybody that participated in that. There was a lot people that worked really hard to pull that off over the past couple of weeks. Downtown Roanoke was blocked off last night. Market Square was blocked off so that these dancers could perform and you guys could not have any coverage of that none. None? I am outraged!”
WSLS responds. Tiffany, I appreciate that this was an important event for you and the others involved in it and congrats on having a successful dance contest. Our crew on that day was covering the gubernatorial contest, another story that has a broad impact on the entire viewing audience. In the future, if we’re not at your event but you’d like some coverage, please feel free to forward the newsroom pictures at or post them on our website.
And one more thought on this. We are the sponsors of this weekend’s Thriller Dance Performance and we’ve arranged for coverage and pictures of it from people attending the event.
Finally, we received a compliment for the format of our new 7pm newscast.
Regina Ferris wrote, “What a great idea! Love the information ticker at the bottom.”
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Not one major media has reported that there is a long list of missing college students that all disappeared like Morgan Harrington. Remember Brian Shaffer? How about Maura Murray, Michael Negrete, Josh Guimond, or Justin Gains. The list goes back fifty years to Ron Tammen. His disappearance followed an episode at Miami of Ohio that that had several students disappear then return with amnesia.
The Psychology Department at Miami University knew what was happening but not why it happened.They called it a “case of amnesia.“ Today its called Dissociative Fugue.
While Harrington has been gone there is news of a high school student from Washington state who disappeared on Oct 2nd and was found in Times Square, New York by Oct 9th. She had amnesia and there was a successful appeal in the news to identify her.
If you can interview her you might find that she had behaviors to cause Subliminal Distraction.
Interviewing Harrington’s roommate might turn up that same behavior.
Experts in psychology and psychiatry give psychosocial and psychobabble explanations for why people have these bizarre memory episodes and sometimes travel thousands of miles.
It is much simpler. A problem discovered in the 1960’s caused the creation of the office cubicle. Workers using newly designed workstations had begun to have mental breaks. This information is not secret but is closely held. It is mentioned briefly in first semester psychology where I found it. I had been an engineering student in the 1060’s so I knew what it was when it heard about it.
I encountered it again in 2002 when my wife had a mental break in the payroll office of the University of Alabama. It happened thirty days after they changed her office eliminating Cubicle Level Protection.
No school is aware this problem exists and they do not offer Cubicle Level Protection or warn students about Subliminal Distraction.
i always turn to this website for news from the virginia area. wsls is generally the best coverage.
That being said, if i were news director i would track dowen the security guards who REFUSED to allow morgan back into the arena.
It appears that she was INJURED and common sense dictates that when a young girl dressed in a tshirt appears at your door in 42 degree weather that SOMETHING IS WRONG!
their refusal to at least call a supervisor to investigate appalls me and i think that aspect should be addressed for future events.
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