As a journalist nay as an Indian, mornings are not complete without watching the early morning news or reading headlines over a cup of coffee. My grandparents did it, my parents do it and Chuckles and I try.
As a rookie journalist I was once asked by my editor to come to work only after I read the morning newspapers and she meant all of them. As a beat reporter I would scan local newspapers and national dailies everyday just to find out what my competition in the print media had covered and I had missed. Over the years one newspaper won over the other and now we read all our news online. Well, that is before we started subscribing to the New York Times.
The morning news in Houston is a lot of things, but informative it definitely isn't. Most channels dip in and out of local city news, but that does not mean they spend the rest of their morning edition talking about happenings in the world. NO. World news is encapsulated into a three minute segment and then tossed back to the chirpy, fresh-faced morning anchors with their incessant banter and oft showcased culinary skills. Well, maybe I exaggerate. After all the recent royal wedding did get a three hour slot while the 300 dead in Tuscaloosa, AL got a few minutes. If you are looking for the local weather, local traffic or even where you can adopt a puppy in your local community, watch the early morning local news. If it is the weather in New York, the beautiful Manhattan skyline or if you want to know what happened on American Idol and which Congressman was caught Twittering uncontrollably till he had to be sent to rehab, or even if you are dying to find out which one of your favourite early morning anchors can cook a mean Mac&Cheese, then watch the national syndicated morning news.
The highlight of the local news today - Is it worth going to college?
As a rookie journalist I was once asked by my editor to come to work only after I read the morning newspapers and she meant all of them. As a beat reporter I would scan local newspapers and national dailies everyday just to find out what my competition in the print media had covered and I had missed. Over the years one newspaper won over the other and now we read all our news online. Well, that is before we started subscribing to the New York Times.
The morning news in Houston is a lot of things, but informative it definitely isn't. Most channels dip in and out of local city news, but that does not mean they spend the rest of their morning edition talking about happenings in the world. NO. World news is encapsulated into a three minute segment and then tossed back to the chirpy, fresh-faced morning anchors with their incessant banter and oft showcased culinary skills. Well, maybe I exaggerate. After all the recent royal wedding did get a three hour slot while the 300 dead in Tuscaloosa, AL got a few minutes. If you are looking for the local weather, local traffic or even where you can adopt a puppy in your local community, watch the early morning local news. If it is the weather in New York, the beautiful Manhattan skyline or if you want to know what happened on American Idol and which Congressman was caught Twittering uncontrollably till he had to be sent to rehab, or even if you are dying to find out which one of your favourite early morning anchors can cook a mean Mac&Cheese, then watch the national syndicated morning news.
The highlight of the local news today - Is it worth going to college?
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