Makin’ controversies at CBS13

Or is it CBS13.com? Or is it just CBS13.com (the show) or CBS13.com (the website)? I don’t even know anymore…

Yesterday’s news out of Riverbank about an entire family killed in a collision with an Amtrak train is truly frightening. The stuff of nightmares. CBS13’s led with this story all day, with Mike Dello Stritto and Serene Branson on scene.

A fatal accident on the highway in central California. Remind you of anything? I think it reminded CBS13 of the problems Solano residents are having with Highway 12, and they decided to run with that. Dello Stritto continued to report from the scene at the 11:00 newscast, even though it was pitch black outside and so the crossing arm he pointed to could have been anywhere. He tossed back to Sam and Pallas who… tossed back out to Serene Branson, standing seemingly a few feet away from Dello Stritto to report on another angle of the story. Awk-waaard.

And then they call K-Ming.

Kurtis comes in to “do his thing” all up in the news by pulling up reports on car-train collisions in Riverbank since 1989 (he shows them to us even. They were words! Printed on paper!). He reports sternly that this is the 6th such accident in the last 18 years. Then, however, he read the actual stats, which included no other fatal accidents in that time span and (to my memory) only one other injury accident! In other words, another way to say this would have been this is the first fatal accident in 18 years in a small town with something like a dozen railroad crossings.

But there was a chance to turn this into another Highway 12 scandal, which has now generated specific legislation to fix that stretch of road, and I think they ran with it.

Like his namesake Ming the Merciless, Kurtis Ming must be stopped! And there is only one man currently in pre-production to possibly get picked up by a network to do the job…

Author: CoolDMZ

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