There's a fascinating story in the Hartford Courant about former KCRA reporter/anchor Steve Bunnell, who for the past three years has been the morning anchor at the CBS affiliate in Hartford, Conn.
Bunnell is leaving the news biz to be a Christian evangelical minister. His last day on the air is Aug. 17.
The daily grind of superficial local TV news (Bunnell's expression, not mine) didn't jibe with Bunnell's Christian faith. Here's what he told the Courant:
"I just don't share the vision of local news any more. I can't feed into its culture of fear any more...We have a friend who won't let her kids play on her front lawn because she thinks it's too dangerous. Why? She watches the news. I tell her violent crime is lower than when we were kids. Does she believe me? I don't know.
"It's like that shark summer when some station in Florida saw ratings spike with a shark story. Before you knew it, there were shark stories in every market. Truth was, the record of shark attacks that year was lower than normal. You'd never know it from TV."
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