Readers Share Our Pain

We saw this story by Mike DCronemeyer on WOWT this morning but thought we were being too critical of the station's pathetic effort to match KETV's live reports during the early morning newscast. It turns out that we weren't the only ones who noticed, as evidenced by this alert reader's email:This morning I happened to have the TV on and it was turned to Channel 6 by accident. They did a small

Evidence

A couple of readers have suggested that the aforementioned "tea parties" were not anti-Obama and that the attendees were mostly sensible-looking folks.Apparently they missed the part where Texas's governor raised the specter of secession.We've taken a few screen shots from local coverage; you can judge for yourself.

Wednesday Night Alright for News

Two strong stories from Wednesday's 10 p.m. newscasts: one on Channel 7 and the other on Channel 3.At KETV, Carol Kloss did an excellent job with a story that could've been a warmed-over version of others that've been done on the topic—drunk driving. Instead, Kloss exposed and then went after a guy with multiple drunk driving convictions who not only has slithered out from under more severe

In Which the Writers Extol the Virtues of Ms. Madden and Offer a Bit of Unsolicited Advice to Her Pinhead Boss(es)

In an effort to be positive about what’s going on at WOWT, let us focus for a moment on Tracy Madden. As we’ve already noted, we couldn’t be more happy with her promotion to lead female anchor at the Big Six. And it appears to suit her well, too. In the weeks since the announcement that she’d be “movin’ on up,” Madden appears to be absolutely glowing.Don’t misunderstand: It’s not that she wasn’t

Stuffing

If we were narcissistic, we might think that SuxNews is just f-ing with us. Some of what they're airing lately is material that KPTM wouldn't have run even in its darkest days. That anyone can intro this stuff with a straight face (or any shred of self-respect) is truly remarkable.

Case in point: On Thursday's Live at Five, J-Pa "How Much Is That Hairpiece in the Window?" Knicely told viewers

A Different Sort of Shout Out

Tuesday was a little busy at the OMA News headquarters, so we didn't get to one item we can't let pass without comment.Part of sweeps at WOWT seems to be a tendency to strain to come up with "unique" angles to stories without realizing those angles are either unoriginal or just plain stupid. We're not sure where to file Jim Siedlecki's Monday night story about high school football games.The

Maltard Word of the Day

fulled: shorten by placing one part over another (Example: "Can you fulled the laundry?")

Grading Channel 6's Latest Hires

Who's doing the hiring at WOWT? Are on-air jobs now an entry-level, minimum-wage phenomenon at Channel Sucks? Looking at the characters they've been hiring lately, one has to wonder.Here's a brief report card on the latest batch of newbies at 35th and Farnam:Jaime McCutcheon is far-and-away the best addition to the station since MalorieMaddox came on board in the fall of 2004. While McCutcheon

Omarosa Doolittle

Before we put OMAnews on hiatus for a couple of weeks, we want to share this email from an alert reader, regarding the attire of Elictia "Omarosa" Hammond.Not sure if you saw today's morning show on KETV, but Elictia "Omarosa"Hammond wore a snappy black blazer and white shirt ... with jeans. Yes, jeans. With a small bleach stain near the left knee.You wouldn't have noticed her attire had she not

Math

If, like us, you've come to despise Mike Kelly's worthless column in the local paper, then you probably really hated Saturday's installment, which highlighted one of his more inane fetishes—what he calls "cool numbers."

Apparently, he found some guy who "was born on 10/10/55 and turned 55 on 10/10/10." Isn't it amazing?!

Let's add Kelly to the list of tired local hacks who need to go away— a