My Head's Gonna Explode!

 I won't play games with you and make you guess my age, as it may be self-evident with my lunatic ravings.  If you must know, I just turned fifty-nine last month.   You say, "so what?"  I say, listen up and I'll give you a peek into my keen insight of modern day television production practices.

In the days of black and white broadcasting, there was a sense of professionalism, decorum and civility.  It also predated the technology that we all love and enjoy today.  Well, some of us do...

My first rant is with so-called "journalists".  I don't have a degree in that field, and I suspect that many of our esteemed newsreaders are posing as unqualified journalists. 

I have always heard that to properly convey a story to someone, you need to cover the "who, what, where, when and how".  It seems simple enough and covers a lot of ground.  But it appears to be a foreign concept for producers and newsreaders on everything from local news outlets to cable news stations. 

For instance, there will be coverage of a raging fire that is consuming the state of Texas.  They show us dramatic footage of flames and trees turning into naked, charred sticks.  Wow!  I've never seen that before!  As a matter of fact, they look like trees that could be found almost anywhere, on fire.  What the so-called journalist neglected to tell me and the other twelve million viewers is WHERE in Texas is this conflagration occurring?  Location?  Is that too much to ask for?  I have friends that live in that hellish oven and am concerned that the raging inferno might be destroying their homes.  Geez....