The winners:
- WXIA at Atlanta; large market/best continuing coverage (11Alive Staff), for "State of the Stimulus"
- KARE at Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.; large market/newscast (KARE 11 News at 10 p.m./KARE 11 News Team), for ""Blizzard Coverage" (12/23/09), and large market/video feature reporting (Boyd Huppert, Jonathan Malat), for "The Tyler Project"
- WGRZ at Buffalo, N.Y.; small market/video sports reporting (Bob Mancuso, Aaron Saykin), for "Baseball Hero"
First of all, congratulations to the three stations.
ReplyDeleteFrom my personal knowledge, the staff of at least one of those three stations (and, likely, all of them) are as much embarrassed as pleased by such recognition. I'm not going to say which one, as I see no need to call them out that way.
They like awards as well as anyone, but they look around and ask themselves "Can we really be the only ones who can see how far our news coverage standards have fallen in the last few years?" And thus it somewhat even makes them angry to get an award like this, because it will be used as proof by corporate that "everything is alright" on the quality front at the TV stations, when in fact staff is keenly aware it isn't "alright" at all.
Awards are wonderful. The staff people are working hard with little appreciation and certainly no reward from the company . . . paycuts, promised raises with nothing forthcoming and trying to compete with obsolete and broken software and equipment. But it's the awful ratings that are most concerning. The executives can spin it all they want but the audience is rejecting the master plan. They know what is news and what is a waste of their time.
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