After watching another TV reporter broadcasting from the great outdoors during the latest "blast of snow" we recently experienced, I think it's time we viewers said enough is enough. I realize that local weather is the life's blood of our local news stations. After all, if it wasn't for numerous forecasts, warmed over national news, and the latest "Sky Team" view of the nightly traffic accident, the local news hour would barely exist.
But that doesn't excuse the constant gross exaggeration, screen crawls and teasers suggesting the need to "stay tuned" to hear about the approaching Armageddon — which frequently amounts to a snow shower somewhere in Cumberland. Or, buried at the very end of the latest scary forecast, the chance of a "fast half-inch."
Working Baltimoreans into a panic is not a responsible way to get ratings. Maybe if the local networks worked harder to fill the time with real local news they would be less dependent on such cheap stunts.
Steven Rubin, Nottingham