Here Comes the Pun

I'm Chris. I live in Brooklyn. I like craft beer, geography, travel, hiking, biking, news media, and a lot of random things that are mostly of little or no consequence.

To get by, I work in advertising. I also host craft beer tastings.

I write about Rhode Island a lot, too, because I grew up there.

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I have a blog about craft beer and homebrewing in New York City. I also have a less-often updated blog about transportation policy.

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July 11th, 2011 at 9:31PM

No, My9, news shouldn’t move fast. It should take as much time as necessary to inform me about the important news of the day without condensing it into talking points, glossy us vs. them packages, or headlines that miss the point. It also shouldn’t move fast for the sake of squeezing in stories about how chewing gum is bad for me (or not) which celebrity broke up with another, or what silent killer might be lurking under my porch.

Unfortunately, in New York, no such local newscast exists, so I don’t watch local news at all. Saying your newscast moves faster is the equivalent of saying, “stories as deep as the anchors delivering them.”

No, My9, news shouldn’t move fast. It should take as much time as necessary to inform me about the important news of the day without condensing it into talking points, glossy us vs. them packages, or headlines that miss the point. It also shouldn’t move fast for the sake of squeezing in stories about how chewing gum is bad for me (or not) which celebrity broke up with another, or what silent killer might be lurking under my porch.

Unfortunately, in New York, no such local newscast exists, so I don’t watch local news at all. Saying your newscast moves faster is the equivalent of saying, “stories as deep as the anchors delivering them.”

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No one has asked the real question… if WNYW’s newscast begins at 10 p.m. in New York traveling at 55 mph, and My9 begins...
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