KMSP fail

[Guest cfif]

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/04/fox_9_news_fail.php

 

Fox 9 News (KMSP) hit another high point in their stellar news coverage. Instead of, you know, reporting the news, they were going to be the news. How? They had this great idea to play pretend pedophile, drive around in a pedo-van (unmarked SUV) and try to get unsuspecting Edina kids to talk to a stranger. Why didn't we think of this?

 

The piece would piggyback off a story about an attempted child abduction in Edina last week. They wanted to know: How dumb are these kids really?

 

Well, they decided to be nice and warn the police so they didn't look like real creeps. That plan backfired and the news story was canned. Now Fox reporters will have to actually admit their inappropriate love of children and unmarked vehicles.

 

So what was their plan exactly? Drive through Edina in an unmarked SUV after school and try to get young kids to talk to them, says Minnesota Public Radio's The LoopHole.

 

I'm surprised they put the kibosh on that -- it sounds like such a quality piece! :awesome:

[Weeters 1981]

 

Watch out for this van, kids.

[socalnewsguy 11]

The folks at KTTV tried the same thing, except they actually molested the kiddies.

 

Oh, Fox.

[Hometown News 62]

WITI6Fan - epic win.

 

At least 'FXT is too busy whining about Deval's taxes to pull stunts like this.

[TennTV1983 811]

WITI6Fan - epic win.

 

At least 'FXT is too busy whining about Deval's taxes to pull stunts like this.

And yet, WHBQ started a phenomenon surrounding a door.

[Jess 1115]

WTXF has started a regular segment on the News At Ten called "Had a Bad Day". It is, and I quote the anchor, "Five people who had a worse day than you did". Remember, this airs every night.

 

Is there some sort of new directive at the O&Os to fill their broadcasts with epic fail?

[newsie 11]

 

Watch out for this van, kids.

Haha. Nice.

 

KMSP is complete EPIC FAIL.