Whent the Bill Kamal story broke everyone rushed to gripe how they weren’t seeing anyting on WSVN’s website forgetting the fact that the site is usually the last one to get updated, if at all sometimes for days, when anything happens. On Monday however it was a different story, the arrest was mentioned on the 12pm newscast with the one sentence message issued by station executives. Then at 5pm and 5:30pm they teased the story for an upcoming full report at 6pm. The same report re-aired at 10pm, Im not sure about the 11pm newscast I was watching “The Daily Show” at that time. Then of course on Tuesday they mentioned Kamal’s arraignment and showed him being led in handcuffs. And that was it, nothing else has been mentioned after that. In my opinion they handled it pretty well, without any fanfare or hype.
Today however there’s this in the Sun Sentinel “Any scandal will do for Channel 7” of course blasting the station for running with the story in a “seemingly endless loop”. Endless loop? Could that be because their news ARE on an endless loop with 9 1/2 hours of it every day? And if they didn’t show the story “just like they show other people” the same Sun Sentinel will be screaming their eyeballs out why they’re shoving it under the carpet. 7News mentioned nothing of Kamal’s DUI arrest last year.
As expected of course there’s no mention that other stations like WPLG for example had the story on, WTVJ did too. The video is even on their website. But of course there’s no criticism of them running on an endless loop. And how could it be when your newspaper is in bed with the station, or maybe it’s because WTVJ are dead last in the ratings and nobody watches them except for their 11pm newscast thanks to NBC’s programing.
Sun Sentinel
Any scandal will do for Channel 7
