Orlando News Producers should be ashamed of themselves

As many suggested, they love it when I rant so they are in for a real treat right now. I am about to blast the media again!

Yesterday I went to another event for veterans. There were four reporters running their cameras and stayed for the whole event. As always, they were interested, showed they cared and were very professional. Considering we have over 400,000 veterans in Central Florida and well over a million in the state there is always something going on. I want to get to every event but I am only one person, so there are events I can't cover. When that happens, I turn to the media sites so that people know what is going on.

Just like yesterday when the news crews show up, veterans expect to see their story on the stations sending the reporters. It breaks their hearts when they discover they were just not important enough to watch it on the news.

It isn't the reporters fault. After all they show up and spend their time filming these events. It it up to the producers to put it on or not. Here's a piece of advice to producers. If you are not going to show it, don't show up at these events.

Veterans are giving up on Florida's news stations. It hurts them when you don't send anyone but it hurts them more when you do but it is never on the news.

They go home, call their families and friends telling them they were on the news and then watch for hours along with searching the Internet hoping to find the link. Every think about how that feels to these veterans?

Sure you manage to make sure that when one of them gets into trouble, you cover it and play it over and over again but when they are honored or do something wonderful, they are replaced by something else.

SHAME ON YOU! What the hell is wrong with you when you just can't fit them in? Ever hear of a thing called YouTube? Other stations can do it and so do small newspapers. Put the footage you don't have time for on YouTube so at least they can find it with the help of their kids and grandkids if they can't use a computer.

I am with them almost every weekend and often at events during the week. I keep seeing the station's vans that I will not mention here but I wanted you to know that you may get a few more viewers or hits on your site while they search but in the end, they don't want to bother with your station after you don't bother to show what you sent someone to film.

If you wonder why so many veterans don't want to talk to reporters when they do show up, you have your answer. They don't trust your motives when you have proven they are not "newsworthy" enough to put their stories on TV or even on your website.

UPDATE

Here's the video from the Orlando VFW Medals Ceremony. Notice how many news crews were there.

Winter Park FL Glen Haven Memorial Day Service

Memorial Day service at Glen Haven Memorial Park, Winter Park Florida on May 28, 2012

Every year Baldwin Fairchild sponsors the Memorial Day Service at Glen Haven Memorial Park. This is one of the best things around for Memorial Day. The fallen from all wars are honored and so are the veterans.

Winter Springs Jr. ROTC does a wonderful job with everything they participate in but it is easy to tell this service is very special to them.

This is a video with the highlights of the service. Two singers stood out. One part of the Orlando Three sang God Bless The USA and Arnold Grace had delivered heart tugging Hero For Today.

ORLANDO VA MEDICAL CENTER for 90,000 veterans

ORLANDO VA MEDICAL CENTER: For Those Who Served
June 28, 2011 · By ANN STRAUB

The Orlando VA Medical Center, serving an area of nearly 90,000 veteran patients in Central Florida, is one of seven members of the VISN 8 Healthcare System.

The Orlando VA Medical Center includes the Orlando VA Medical Center, the Community Living Center, the Residential Rehabilitation Program, the Viera Outpatient Clinic, the Daytona Outpatient Clinic, and four Community Based Outpatient Clinics located in Clermont, Kissimmee, Leesburg, and Orange City.

The East Central Florida veteran population is slated for a new hospital to be built in 2012. This much needed facility will make it easier for East Central Florida veterans to access VA’s world-class medical center and relieve the burden of traveling long distances for their inpatient care.

In addition to the main facility in Orlando, the VA offers services in several outpatient clinics in their six county patient service area. These clinics are located in Daytona Beach and Viera.

Community-based outpatient clinics include Clermont, Kissimmee, Leesburg, Orange City, Crossroads Annex and Lake Nona Annex.
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ORLANDO VA MEDICAL CENTER