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I'm going to die. Do not know how. It could be something in the water that could make me sick. It could be sex offenders could be living in my neighborhood. It could even be the truck drivers who fly down DIEWAYS Louisville! How do you know all this? Local news, of course. Back in the old days of my youth, local news was a matter of 18:00 / 23:00 where reports are still shot on film. Weather "girls" made the weather forecast in magnetic maps of the United States, and the radar was more like a video game Pong. In my 36 years, local news grew from these humble beginnings in flashy matters, many hours that is hardly distinguishable from their counterparts in the network. But improved technology and more time devoted to news has not necessarily improved the presentation of local news reports. These are things I can not stand news.1 premises) could die tomorrow! Tonight at 6! - It seems that there are at least one station in each network has its own staff of Don LaFontaine who booms "Would the water from your faucet to be killing their children a sip at a time?" In their promotions. The stories themselves usually the amount to be local packaging of national stories about water quality or some other random minor threat that could be found in the pages of science in a cable news network. 2) King Cobra Sweep Triple Action Super Quad quick action of long-term Doppler radar - In the days when the weather made the maps a bit more technically sophisticated than your child place magnetic letters on the refrigerator, which had problems to predict the weather more than 12 hours in advance. Thanks to the latest in sophisticated Doppler radars, our local stations now have the ability to obtain 3D weather. While it is undisputed that the Doppler radar has proven to be a savior in areas prone to tornadoes, forecasters would be good to each local station, touted as the biggest, baddest better and with more experience can get the correct time occasionally. 3) women anchors Bobblehead - Bobblehead is the custom of shaking and nodding his head when reading a story. If you have never noticed, now look. Because once you notice it, it annoys to no end. It's like they're trying to shake the words of his mouth. And just to females, since it seems to be the biggest offenders. 4) The attack of Ted Baxter - Another key component of news promos and intros is the serious and angry looking anchor or reporter. One of our local news stations did a promo with investigative journalists several months ago that he had every one of them lurking in the shadows with a half frown on his face. They looked more like one of us who Goodreporters. Fortunately, two of the journalists quit so I had to take a new direction. Now also carrying baseball bats. 5) The mayor of our city die, but first see our correspondent visits the set of "According to Jim" - The promotion of the network that passes as news is big on local stations. But is it really so important that my local anchor Mary Hart replace a stupid puff piece of what Courtney Thorne Smith thinks that is great about your job? 6) live broadcast of the Dead scenes - I can understand the remote control where the news just happened, but honestly, is it necessary for a journalist to give me a concert at a distance from the scene of an accident that occurred three days ago ? Is this "CSI"? Does the journalist to stumble on the crucial piece of news that could break the story wide open, just by being there? 7) Cabin Fever Theatre - The great thing about snow storms is that they tend to stick inside. With nothing to do.And then the cable goes out. And if you use the antenna to pull on the ghost of a local station. And they discover that they are devoting to 8 hours of live coverage on the fact that the snow is falling from the sky, people are stuck inside, and that the cable is out. 8) It might be nice if they were in Heelys - Another thing that gets me is the reporter on the street. Somewhere, years ago, a reporter decided that the news was not any good position yet. If you could add a little walk toward the camera, the story would be that much better. So now we have reporters wandering, as history tells us, trying to show how wonderful it is in memory of his script and another engine skills.9) Please! Stop running! Why not tell us why you are selling fakes scrapbooking materials? - At a time when most of the press corp the White House is nodding to whatever the increasingly creepy, Tony Snow, said, perhaps they should turn to local news channels. Here in Louisville, we had several Donaldsons in training, chasing the shadow businessmen guilty of crimes large and small. But why is that they seem to be good with grilled these guys, but not to ask tough questions for local officials? 10) We'll have to come for you at 5, 5:30, 6, 7 and 11. News How much can produce real city? Is it really that vital to have 4 to 6 hours of local news of the day? And if you are going to report a story, do not give me details of a brutal decapitation center in the news at 5, followed by "What gruesome discovery led to the police about the eyeballs in this severed head? Get the 6. "Seriously. Get rid of the child's history of selling furniture pipe cleaner if necessary.

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The month of March 2010 had reached the end. I had summarized my top 5 International news for your reference. By understanding what has happened in the past and the present situation today, we can better understand what can happen in the future. Looking at what has happened, we can understand what to avoid and what to do better.1) Pentagon handle A man shot and wounded two security guards at an entrance to the Pentagon, near a busy commuter train before being fatally wounded in a shootout.The gunman, identified in reports by the media as 36-year-old John Patrick Bedell California, apparently trying to enter the U.S. defense giant California Department headquarters.The man who was killed in a shootout with police Pentagon had a history of mental illness and had become so erratic that her parents approached the local authorities with the warning that was unstable and could have a link with terrorism gun.No shooting.The Pentagon Pentagon was one of the objectives in the September 11 hijacked plane attacks. One of the planes crashed into the U.S. military headquarters, killing 125 people, along with 59 passengers on the plane and crew and the five hijackers.2) rocketsCambodia Cambodian military to mount a military test test rocket rare public amid a prolonged dispute troops on the territory in dispute with neighboring Thailand.Troops fired about 200 rockets from launchers mounted on trucks an airfield 180 kilometers (about 110 miles) from the Thai border.Prime Minister Hun Sen said in a speech that rockets were fired to measure the quality of the Russian Federation and China made in the Cold War-era weapons that have remained largely unused in warehouses.Cambodia and Thailand have been locked in nationalist tensions and confrontation of troops on their disputed border since July 2008, when 11-century Cambodian temple of Preah Vihear was awarded UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Temple of Preah Vihear, a unique architectural complex of a series of sanctuaries linked by a system of floors and stairs in a shaft 800 meters long, is an outstanding masterpiece of Khmer architecture in terms of plan, decoration and relationship with the spectacular scenery environment.Four soldiers were killed in clashes in the area of the temple in 2008 and three more in a shooting last April. Small outbreaks continue to be reported among troops in the area.3) Thai tensions buildThe red-shirted supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra gave the government an ultimatum to dissolve parliament and call new elections or face massive street protests demonstrations.The that began on March 12, reached more than 150,000 people, but have been peaceful and the government demonstrators poured orderly.Anti bottles of his own blood outside the Thai prime minister's office after the demands of the election was Rejected. Thailand has been plagued with political unrest in 2008, when demonstrators yellow shirt who opposed Thaksin's allies in the previous government raided the office of prime minister for three months and blocked the Bangkok International Airport until a court threw out the government.The supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted by the military in 2006, says Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, must dissolve the parliament or the mass demonstrations across the street led by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD). The UDD is largely supported by the rural poor, Thaksin loyalists because of his populist policies while in office 2001-2006. Many of the "red shirts" are some of the millions of people who helped win two elections billionaire landslides.4) Google Pull out ChinaGoogle Inc closed its search service based in China and began to redirect web browsers a portal of censorship in Hong Kong. China calls for Internet operators to block the words and images of the ruling Communist Party considers unacceptable. Google had said in January it would stop censoring search results in response to what he said was a sophisticated cyber attack traced to China and the increasing limits on freedom of expression during the past year.China 's 384 million Internet users is the world's largest online population.Internationally popular websites Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are totally blocked in China, which uses a filtering firewall to block Internet users from foreign Web content prohibited by the authorities. In addition to Twitter and Facebook, many blog sites abroad are out because they allow the rapid exchange of information, prompting the decision of the Communist Party fears of mass disturbances. Another sore point for government censors are fighting history, politics and religion.5) U.S. House overhaulThe approves sweeping U.S. health House of Representatives gave final approval to a radical overhaul of health, expand insurance coverage for almost all Americans.The bill, Obama's top national priority, expanding the government health plan for the poor, imposing new taxes insurance practices rich and bars, like refusing to cover people with pre-existing medical and health conditions.The renew, opens the door to further changes in the system 2.5 trillion U.S. dollars of health care U.S. since the 1965 creation of the health program administered by the government of Medicare for the elderly and disabled.However, Republican attorneys general in at least 12 U.S. states warned that the claims are presented to prevent the federal government's health reform law encroachment on the sovereignty of states, but the administration does not believe that Obama claims will succeed.