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During the 5 pm newscast WFSB had a name and picture of a “person of interest” in the slaying of Yale grad student Annie Le (lab technician Ray Clark, most recently of Middletown). National media outlets were soon to follow along with web sites such as Gawker.com. As of 9:30 pm Tuesday night, WFSB was still out there solo which can be an exhilarating but nerve-wracking situation…
FSB did a great job of reporting this story…leaving Ch 8 in the dust…and looking like they couldn’t match the reporting, the diggin’ of WFSB-TV.
WTNH looked like deer in the headlights at 6p after they had a dose of Ch 3’s coverage. Ch 8 was truly smoked.
“Smoked in dust?” Whatever. Susan Raff is an excellent reporter, one of the best in the state, but let’s not get carried away here. Collectively, I’ll take 8’s reporters over 3 any day.
But on normal days of Connecticut news, If I want a fender-bender car-wreck to be the lead story or look for some snow storm to be given a dumb name, I’ll turn to Channel 3.
Nearly everybody had his name and details. 3 chose to go ahead and air it. It’s a dicey situation when you’re going public with a “person of interest” who hasn’t officially been named.
Susan Raff is an excellent reporter. She and the new bureau chief won, fair and square.
And, really when was the last time 3 lead with a fender bender, please. Don’t let bitterness allow you to post falsities. Give them the credit.
Nearly everybody? TNH staffers iin the field today said they didn’t go with it because they didn’t have it.
Folks might be interested in this, which I saw on Romenesko.
http://www.dankennedy.net/2009/09/16/paul-bass-on-not-naming-names/
I have been gravitating to NBC 30 for the last several weeks after realizing how dumbed-down Channel 3’s news is. Words regualr spelled incorrectly at the bottom of the screen accompanying story (whatever the technical term is for that), and things thrown out as facts that most people don’t realize unless they are somehow involved. For instance, one entire story revolved around a board of finance meeting in Southington. It was actually a town council meeting. All the reporter had to do was pick up an agenda to see where they were. It seems all of FSB’s reporters are looking to add to their reel. They look good without a lot of substance. 3, 8 and even 61 (with its own crowd of supermodels) carries a lot more weight.