OftenWrong

Love you, CKWS News, for your small-town format and emphasis on local content.

The morning show is run by two guys, one guy seems like he's real smart, the other acts kinda dumb. Or he might really be dumb, it doesn't matter much out here. These two play off each other very well. They handle everything, local news, international news of significance (sans the opinion and hype! thank you! thank you!). One guy does the weather with the blue screen thing. They try their best.

This morning's cultural immersion story is how someone figured out how to use a McDonald's french-fry container to hold the ketchup. By folding down the lip of the box on one side, you have a small container. You can put your ketchup in there, and dip your fries. Awesome idea! Mind blown!

Word has it the producer, an old-school news guy, refuses to adapt to the new "infotainment" format that has become so popular on news shows these days, like CBC, CTV, although being pressured by management to "modernize" the show. I like it the way it is- no opinion panels. No hype, just the information. You are free to form your own opinion. But producer guy is set to retire in a couple of years. Sadly things will probably change after that, and the quality of the content will go down. This is what some people call "progress".