Guest cfif Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 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: Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5287-kmsp-fail/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1919 Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Watch out for this van, kids. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5287-kmsp-fail/#findComment-49418 Share on other sites More sharing options...
socalnewsguy 11 Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 The folks at KTTV tried the same thing, except they actually molested the kiddies. Oh, Fox. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5287-kmsp-fail/#findComment-49421 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hometown News 54 Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 WITI6Fan - epic win. At least 'FXT is too busy whining about Deval's taxes to pull stunts like this. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5287-kmsp-fail/#findComment-49422 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennTV1983 804 Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 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. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5287-kmsp-fail/#findComment-49423 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess 1115 Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 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? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5287-kmsp-fail/#findComment-49457 Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsie 11 Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Watch out for this van, kids. Haha. Nice. KMSP is complete EPIC FAIL. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/5287-kmsp-fail/#findComment-49472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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