The world according to WLOS
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Here's a comment from mr. fuSchia, proving that WLOSers really are as dumb as we think they are:
You know, I don't really know why you all bitch so much about there not being "real news" out there. If anything, you should be lucky that WLOS leads with stories about Halloween Safety and Snow on the Parkway. Sure as hell makes me feel a lot safer to live here in Asheville. Go to New York or Washington DC sometime, and you will get your "real news." It will be something along the lines of "the maimed corpse of the 11th victim of a serial killer is found." Yeah, watching stories about Halloween Safety isn't as thrilling as watching an episode of CSI, but it is comforting knowing that the only danger I have to worry about is driving on icy roads, not eating too much candy, and ancient people (cause they are scary drivers around here).
OK, here's the deal. See if you can follow this: Nobody is bitching about the lack of "real news" or the lack of crime in Ashvegas. We're bitching about all the fake bullshit you WLOSers call news.
Are you seriously trying to say that WLOS is trying to make people feel_safe_ by leading the news with a story about how sexual predators are lurking in every neighborhood ready to prey on little Johnny. And that's just one example of how WLOS takes any crime story - any crime story at all - and just runs with it. "If it bleeds it leads," right?
Do you understand what a warped picture of the community your station is painting by making such a big deal out of a stupid redneck getting Taser-ed or a convenience story beating??? Ashvegas and surrounding towns have one of the lowest crime rates in the state.
You seriously think the bullshit infotainment you WLOSers are putting out there is making people feel safer? It's not. It's a false reality you portray, and you don't build up the community at all.
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Now with that said, I throw out a counter argument as well. Every year, one of our local colleges does something called the Western North Carolina Poll. One of the questions on there goes something like this: "how many murders are there in your county each year." They get answers from people from all over WNC, and the results are disturbing. You said it yourself, "Ashvegas and surrounding towns have one of the lowest crime rates in the state." But every year, the numbers show people who live here think otherwise. I believe the average number people say for their county is something around 25 murders a year. Multiply that by all the counties here, and well that’s a lot of dead people. All of0 the media here take a murder or some bad event and blow it way out of proportion, and yes that includes the Citizen Crimes and WWNC. In a sense, all of the media then scare people to thinking this bad event, if it be a murder or a tazering or a sexual predator that didn’t register cause he is 10 years out… they think it is happening right in their neighborhood. Someone living in Canton sees or hears “FLU PANDEMIC” and thinks it happened outside, and goes and starts Lysol, or I guess Moonshine, it’s the same stuff. Or take my grandparents for example: they see something about a new cell phone virus and think Satan himself has invaded the planet and taken over trying to kill everyone.
Okay, now I am just ranting, and thus I should stop now. In any means, I love the website and the comments here. It’s fun to get riled up and have a good argument about what’s going on, and of course poke fun at our local celebrities.