From what I heard from one of my teachers, local news is apparently completely trash. This surprised me since I always thought news was important. Because of this opinion, I decided to watch the local CBS news at 6:30 with my dad for a week. My results surprised me as all I could say was "this is local news?" The average news was a small event happening to some rich and social looking family, cute animals, "Seaworld," Bill Cosby, and local sports. The occasional "breaking news" did put some action into the broadcast but I didn't really see it as "breaking" since reporters seem to already have a detailed story on it. A car crash or chase was the only action that seemed to close the gap in the circus of stories in local news. The news pretty much has every genre of movies but condensed into short stories. Local news is meant for the entertainment of the average viewer, not to give consistent information of major events.
Among my "favorite" stories are "couple has star wars themed wedding," "woman's new car burns up in flames shortly after returning home from the dealership," "more than a hundred people wait in front of an unopened Chick-fil-A for free chicken," and "cat stays stuck underneath a moving car for ten miles before found." Stories like these have no real purpose for the average person watching the news. I even had a hard time believing this was news at several times. Everyday I began to laugh at the ridiculously exaggerated stories the news presented. As a hard working high school student, I can't imagine that I would grow up to enjoy useless stories like these as an adult.
Not all of the news was trash though. The occasional stories that could relate to me, such as a school lock down, did catch my attention. I'm not saying that local news is just the "Anchorman" in 30 minutes, but maybe just a significantly less extreme version of it. I'm not sure if it was just my age, school, or what my teacher said that caused this, but all I know is, I would rather watch national news.
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