Well, moving on… Did anybody else see the head-to-head 50 year anniversary specials on KCRA and News10 on Saturday night? One thing it proved to me is that local news shows see horrific local tragedies and think it’s their time to shine. The parade of memorable moments from both stations seemed more like a “Here’s to the worst things you’ve lived through” marathon. But as usual, with a local angle. For example, here is News10’s page dedicated to its top stories of the 70s and 80s. Explosions, crashes, disasters, murder, and Elvis. One of the most horrifying segments my wife and I witnessed was the capture of a kidnapper, caught on tape by News10. During the report, police on the scene discovered, in real time, another missing girl in a cardboard box in the creep’s trunk. Live on the TV news!
One of the bright spots of the night was the blast of nostalgia I got at the mention of the early ’90s show “Scratch,” which launched Lisa Ling and our own Mark S. Allen to stardom. Remember “Dateless and Desperate”?
I know what you’re saying, though: “Scratch”-bashing is so old. It never ceases to amaze me the amount of satisfaction people seem to get from imagining that “Scratch” was anything more than a great local TV teen-oriented news program.
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