Local St Louis news reminds me of newscasts out of the 1990s St Petersburg.
Murder, murder, double murder, drive-by shooting, corruption in the city hall, triple murder, a shootout, a dog is taken to a world-class hotel and treated to room service, murder.
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Are you using a short-wave radio?
It sounds like you tuned in to the Phoenix metropolitan area newscasts by mistake.
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It’s the same over there? I thought we were especially bad here in St Louis.
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There’s an old America journalistic observation: If it bleeds, it leads. Here the morning newscast usually has one or more accidents, fires, or crimes, as the leading story. Fresno has the infamous Bulldog gang, but they aren’t that visible unless one or more of them get arrested for a felony of some sort.
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Yes, this definitely is not like Montréal where the only news any day of the year is the sodding weather.
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Local news is the crime report mixed in with weather and human interest stories.
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