A blog offering media criticism based on traditional journalistic values.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Classic: NBC 4's Pat Collins
To begin, I'll bring back one of my favorite examples of a local news buffoon making a fool of himself and degrading community reporting: Pat Collins. The Washington-area reporter has managed to swindle ten Emmy awards for his reporting, in which he usually treats the viewer like a five-year-old and scribbles his own graphics on a sheet of 8.5 X 11. Best known for his coverage of horrible weather disasters, I'd say that on the list of most embarrassing reporters, he's second only to "past perpendicular" Andy Fox:
"Like no one else."
Anyway, here's one of Pat Collins' recent reports.
I understand that the story is meant to be funny, but feeding your man-on-the-street interviews their lines isn't exactly celebrated in the journalism field.
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