1) Overreacting to the weather. Earlier today azcentral.com mentioned that we have a "light tornado watch" which is the equivalent of me receiving a letter that I am being considered for the Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes and calling myself a winner.
2) Emphasizing all words hispanic or even hispanic sounding. I am pretty sure there is not a tilde over the letter "n" when mentioning Sedona.
3) Making all stories local. There is an earthquake in Haiti so we should interview someone who has been to Haiti before.
4) Prounoucing the name Sean as "Seen". Don't be so pretentious Sean McLaughlin, you're a weatherman.
5) Running old footage of the guy who had to be rescued while driving through a wash. Don't say "this happens all the time" if the footage is a decade old.
6) Ignoring grammar and spelling. My grammar and spelling are horrendous but I don't do this for a living.
7) "On your side" reporting. We get that customers sometimes are not pleased with businesses but some of what they report as "scams" seem more like a difference of opinions over services performed. They can go after a Chinese food restaurant that messed up an order with the same vigor as a reporter busting Enron for fraud.
8) The flirty banter. "Oh Lin Sue you are too much, ha, ha, ha"...."Oh Mark, you're so funny too."
9) Running goofy clips from the internet months after they became internet sensations.
10) Mark Curtis and his Burt Reynolds mustache.
