I am watching the news in the morning before getting up for
work. I usually flip between six local
stations. I do this mostly because I am
trying to catch a full weather report, but I am usually dozing while sitting up
in bed, and once I realize I've missed the report on one station, I immediately
flip to another. I repeat this process
for the sports report, too, which means the remote clicker gets an Olympic
workout between 5:00 and 5:30 a.m. most weekdays.
My favorite used to be WBZ.
I've been a 'BZ girl since I was in elementary school because that
station used to broadcast the school cancellations via the radio. But their implosion of the Conversation Nation
blog, once a fan-favorite news forum that turned into a politically stilted
propaganda machine, makes it difficult for me to watch the station with any
loyal regularity.
I also watch WCVB, WHDH, and FOX25 occasionally. If I want weather reports that are closer to
my end of the state rather than the Boston forecasts, I'll switch over the WMUR
out of Manchester, which was another childhood staple when growing up in
southern New Hampshire. I hold a special
affinity for NECN, New England Cable News, mostly because so many Boston news
people laughed at it when it first started airing, claiming it would never
last. It's actually the only local
station that can get a weather forecast completely correct without Ollie Williams level histrionics.
Mostly the news just provides some background noise. So much of it has been unwatchable in the
last year. I really can't stomach
politics because the whole subject is just bad for my blood pressure, and
that's all the news has been covering ad nauseam for the past year. My blood pressure gets enough of a workout
every time the news mentions snow… which it is mentioning right now … for
Monday afternoon … when I'm supposed to have an after-school meeting.
Already I am planning Monday's work escape. I'm thinking early sign-out so that maybe I can crawl home before it gets too
dangerous.
I'll check all six news stations before I make my final
decision.
