News?
I’ve been listening to WSVA “NEWS” radio for 47 years. So you might not be surprised that I was disappointed when I called into the station with some “breaking news” of my own. I told the guy (oh, how I wish, I could tell you his name!) that after I had already called both the Virginia Department of Forestry AND the Federal National Forest contact numbers about the smoke AND the smell of burning leaves that I was seeing and smelling, he told me that he was busy and that it was a “burn”.
He told me that they (the radio station? the FEDS?) had told us about it “last week”… \and that he had to go on the air. He was in a hurry.
I said “Please tell people that there’s a fire….” as he hung up on me.
I tried to tell him that this was NOW, this wasn’t a “burn”.
He needed to go on air
and tell us all the “NEWS”. He had no
time for nows.
