News for Thursday, March 15th, 2018

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV appeared to have had live video (attributed to its administration) of a member of their news operation (Joseph Blake ("J. B.") Biunno) conducting an interview with one of its other members (Dana Winter) this Thursday.

• A certain Internet video stream (attributed to a World Wide Web site named Livestream) that usually appeared to have had local news programming for the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV in recent times appeared to have had audio and video related to them that was not part of their programming for the channel this Thursday (such as audio of some words being said over a black picture and video one of the reporters for their news operation not speaking). 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Monday of the twelfth day of this March ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to have had its news presenter (Bob Grip) saying, "Now take it from me, grandchildren can be quite the blessing..." immediately before presenting a report of a study related to grandparents (note: he appeared to had said this immediately afterwards: "study shows that grandparents who babysit are less likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer's"). 

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. this Thursday ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m." and "FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m." respectively) each appeared to have had their news presenter (Bob Grip) referencing a certain living being (named Joe Cook) as having been a general manager for their broadcast operation and a "man" who had either "worked for" or "worked with" (in the case of the report for the second program mentioned) for a certain owner of a certain team specialized in football (Tom Benson of the Saints of New Orleans in the state of Louisiana) while presenting a report related to them.

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Wednesday of the fourteenth day of this March ("WKRG News 5 at 10") appeared to have had audio of one of its news presenters (Mel Showers) saying, "A local hero pulls a man from a burning car...he tells you why he shouldn't be called a hero" for its introduction onto the channel before having video of its other news presenter (Rose Ann Haven) having a discussion with one of its reporters (a news reporter named Bryant Clerkley) related to what the news presenter mentioned earlier was saying that had her appearing to say "heroes" in reference to its subjects ("hero" and "man").

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Monday of the twelfth day of this March ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.", appeared to have had its news presenter (Bob Grip) presenting a report in which two living beings were described as having been "African-American" whereas one other living being was described as having been "an elderly woman" (this was how they were referenced in the report: "Last week a thirty-nine-year-old African-American man was killed in what police thought was an isolated incident, then came the two explosions today; a seventeen-year-old-African-American teen was killed opening a package in his kitchen, then another package critically injured an elderly woman" (note: the local news program that appeared on the channel during the hour of 9:00 p.m. earlier that that ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to have had the same news presenter presenting a similar report without the descriptions mentioned earlier ("Investigators say three explosions in Austin, Texas may be hate crimes; two people had been killed, two had been injured")).