Does the local news in your area do this?

This is something I've often wondered about and now that a national story with a real Minnesota connection has broken I have to ask.

Whenever something major happens in the world the local media bends over backward to find some Minnesota connection even if it's something like "the victim's 2nd cousin's wife's husband once changed planes at our airport". Swear to God, it's almost that bad.

Now we find out that the hacker responsible for one of the worms is born and bred in Hopkins, MN (he's a "quiet" boy). Our local media seems to be in a quandry over whether to talk it up or play it down.

This news from a woman who spent all the summers of her childhood at Gull Lake, near Nisswa. :bounce:

so if you ever make the national news I can feed this to the local yokels. :evilgrin:

we really are quite provincial.

Another irritating thing they do is that almost everything is "team coverage".

We have enough notariety over the centuries that we don't need to invent any.

Tasmania (the iddy-biddy island South of Aus) will go to any lengths to get a local angle on a story.

OK so Errol Flynn WAS born here......but do we need to know that Denmark's new Princess was?.......or that Merle Oberon was? (even though she denied it).....or that the latest "Big Brother" TV contestant is Tasmanian?.

...I thought the Tasmanian Devil was your favorite son.

i'm at a loss for why the local news in new jersey always tries to find a minnesota connection.

:evilgrin:

Add Oklie-homlie to that list. It is aggravating.

That and the "We were the first (or only) station to break this story." And it always seems like it some horrific local event they do that with. Let's throw in a little advertising bs while we tell you about this horrible tragedy. Ugh!!

Some guy that gets killed on a plane crash on the way from here to some other state. Then the news says "...and we have just learned that he was flying FROM SAN DIEGO!!!!!!"

Said dramatically

Reminds me of the old National Lampoon newspaper parody.

Headline read TWO LOCAL WOMEN FEARED MISSING
subheading in much smaller print: Japan Desstroyed by earthquake.

Grew up in St. Clair Shores and since moving way north, haven't missed Detroit "team coverage" one bit.

That said, even up in little Traverse City they always tend to find a link......my sister's college room-mate's cousin twice removed thing.

Funny.

Julie

Sometimes it seems every dead serviceman lived, has a relative living or went to high school in and around St. Louis.

Dreaded local angle...

On 9/11, before anyone knew who the victims were, one of the stations cut from network coverage to let the Milwaukee mayor speak about nothing of importance...

I happen to be a "quiet" person. The media, for decades, has branded (the "quiet" people) everything from being a potential criminal to eventual murderer or rapist or something and I'm damn well sick of it. I should sue the asses off of them for slander and libel and everything else under the book. I am not a stereotype waiting to happen! There was a book I had read in high school; pity I didn't buy my own copy or write down the more 'memorable' passages... Or just take it, after all my personality type does fit that of a criminal. :eyes: But, knowing myself at the time, it was almost foretelling.

I probably don't have a case though, and it would be another example of how evil those "quiet" folk are.

I remember the Kobe earthquake; I believe 5,000 people were killed.

Lived in NY at the time:
Long Island's Newsday headlined the 2 or 3 Long Islanders that were in the quake, but not hurt!

And Monica Lewinsky? That's Reed College's Monica Lewsinsky, to people in Portland, OR!