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That’s got to be a rhetorical question, no? This board exists for people to express their opinions. What they actually do may not come close to reflecting the opinions expressed here. I was giving my two cents. That’s not a crime. Your post is the sort of comment I could copy and paste as a reply to anyone’s post here in any thread on the entire board and it would work more or less. I’m essentially arguing that it’s gonna be very very hard to pull off if he’s that bad off already and it will be very difficult to keep it from being a noticeable distraction. If you turn it around and make it about him but let another reporter or even an anchor report on it it’s a much gentler ride. You also don’t have to deal with things around midstream when he gets too far gone to report. So I disagree with their strategy here. Given the general progression of a cognitive disease like this it probably won’t be a real long running series. Maybe you get a year or two out of it?

Ok now that’s a little much. Cue him live in studio saying he works for a different station or is in a different city or is a plumber or something. He should just gracefully be gone into the sunset. If they assigned another reporter to check in with him and did a series of reports in his honor that would make more sense.

Ironically he worked until his mind was going. My point was more that there comes a time when they appear to be past peak and the presentation isn’t what it was. At some point you run the risk of “see you Monday!” Becoming… uh… “Joe Anchor died in his sleep overnight” and it won’t even be all that incredible or surprising. The actuarial tables don’t care if he has ratings or not.

It’s unfortunate he’s not gonna get a few years with everything working the way it’s supposed to. 76 is a little old for him to have been still hanging around there if we’re all being honest. That seems to be happening in a lot of businesses these days. I say that as an outsider who watched similar things play out other places.

Toolis was a 2 year and done that came here from Seattle. Nothing bad but nothing special either. She is a south side native so that’s always a plus when they are local.

That explains why she doesn’t quite sound right. Her American accent is a put on most likely. I hope we keep Brian Lee here in Detroit if the alternative may be that sort of thing. We had Sonny Warner doing a few promos about 15 years ago or so… but she sounded reasonable.

It gives off AI vibes. I hope its a real person.

Please tell me that isn’t their normal voiceover….

My assumption is that like most people who don’t know when to ride off into the sunset there are signs he’s well past his expiration date.

On the contrary... you can be a street reporter turned long term fill in with a 12 credit hour weather certificate from Penn State and get stuck on the air during a tornado warning. Then a month later you do sports when the main sports guy leaves and find time to report in between in market 14. True story.

I think they have gotten better at editing. With WDIV an absolute dumpster fire 7 is the best station in town for what it’s worth.

Which station? WXYZ has been prerecorded for a couple years now at 11. You can tell because there are no anchor interactions with weather or sports. Unless they started doing that in the last month. The sometimes rough cuts not letting the anchor finish their sentence are another clue. All definitely more recent than fall 2024. Watching last nights show… it’s recorded for sure. Tonight’s had a live A block and then it was recorded.

I’ve been noticing more LIVE reports on WXYZ of late. I wonder if they are backing off the Scrippscast/Lets only record packages thing?

It isn’t like you can’t learn on the job from the two certified meteorologists and the weather producers. Plenty of amateur folks know their stuff.

I can't imagine Goudie being there until 77-80 years old. He's 70 after all.