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All the newscast from WGN are worthless. Skilling couldn't predict the 
weather if he tried.


"cineaste" <jeff@jeffreyspivak.com> wrote in message 
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> For the most part, WGN's morning news is a joke.
>
> Does Robin Baumgartner ever read her stories in advance? Every news
> item sounds like a cold reading from her. If she isn't stumbling to
> read the teleprompter correctly, she will often stop midway in her
> "reporting" to reflect on what she just said ("Oh really? How many
> medals did he win?"...). She also has a twitchy blinking of her eyes
> that is disconcerting.
>
> Tuned in at 6 am today to get the latest traffic from teleprompter
> reader and so-called "traffic person" Valerie Warner who teased with a
> report on a Metra slowdown (which affects my morning commute.) "All
> that and more in ten...back to you Robin." "Thanks Val."
>
> Ten minutes later, after top-of-the-hour fluff pieces on Michelle
> Obama, the convention, and one local news story, Ms. Warner reads to
> us the travel times that we can see for ourselves. No story about the
> Metra delay, not even a reference to it.
>
> My mistake was trusting "Chicago's Very Own" to be timely, responsive,
> and professional.