Reporter's Notebook

Thursday, March 30, 2006

I've heard that somewhere before.

Both of our competitors did a story on a loose tiger in Cullman County. Funny thing, their video, interviews and script were exactly the same. When I saw one of the stories run yesterday there was a line in it that went, "This man believes the Tiger belongs to Ed Smith." I thought, what a poor piece of writing. Why name a name? Who is Ed Smith? I bet there are a lot of Ed Smiths across North Alabama. If you give the name Ed Smith, tell me who Ed Smith is. Why not just say, "This man believes he knows who the tiger belongs to." Then, when I saw the other station run their story this morning, they too used the, "This man believes the Tiger belongs to Ed Smith" line.

This story was done by a Birmingham station and both Huntsville stations got it off the feed and just re-voiced the audio with their own people.

1 Comments:

  • At 6:33 PM, Blogger OUWxGirl said…

    That does sound weird. But you sound like you know your stuff. Good job!

     

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