"Photos from Wooten/Platte accident and extrication"

- A News Blab Exclusive -

Weekend- 4/26&27/08: More photos from yesterday afternoon's major 2-car accident at the intersection of Wooten and Platte.  Two of the victims had to be extricated from their vehicle by CSFD heavy rescue equipment.

Photos by News Blab

"Changes for KXRM Fox 21 Morning News?"

From the KXRM website

Weekend- 4/26&27/08: Rumor until confirmed - I received the following "Got a tip?" form....

message: "A little kxrm bird flew in and says that Jeannette Hynes is a casualty at KXRM because of budget cuts. Grace Polanski moving to mornings. Someone else doing weekends. So what's up? True or Not."

Anyone have additional 411..???

UPDATE:  Someone wrote in and said, yes it's true.  The change starts this Monday.

"Major accident requires extrication of victims"

Photo by News Blab

4/25/08: News Blab was one of the first on-scene at a major 2-car accident at the intersection of Wooten and Platte, this afternoon.  Upon my arrival, one AMR rig was the only emergency vehicle on-scene... but two additional ambulances soon arrived as well as CSFD, Heavy Rescue and CSPD.  Three of the four accident victims were removed from the vehicles; two had to be extricated from one vehicle, using the jaws-of-life and metal cutting saws.  At least three, possibly four were taken to the hospital, two in serious condition according to reports. One of the injured was walking around holding his neck while the others were being worked on.

Additional EXCLUSIVE accident photos, Saturday on News Blab...

"Colorado Springs woman responsible for phone call about WMDs, that started Iraq war?"

4/25/08: With all the 'sweeps-stunt-stories' that have been filling my TV screen the past couple of nights, I'm surprised one of the local TV news organizations hasn't provided a story with the angle, Rozita Swinton, a Colorado Springs woman is responsible for the phone call that started the Iraq war, telling government officials about hidden weapons of mass destruction she saw, as she was having sex with her middle aged polygamist husband, while posing as a 16-year-old girl.

But on a serious note... someone thinks KRDO News Channel 13 is getting their story ideas from KOAA News First.  I received the following "Got a tip?" form yesterday...

message: "This just in...... News Channel 13 likes News First 5/30's stories so much THEY'VE DECIDED TO COPY 5/30!!

First the massage parlor law in the legislature, then the city travel expenses, and now the search for sex offenders.

Shouldn't 13 at least give 5/30 credit if they're going to use 5/30's story ideas?"

UPDATE 4/25/2008 - 6:15 p.m. Readers respond to the above "Got a tip?" form comment -

message: "Hey, I think 13 ran the city expenses story before 5/30. 13's ran at 6pm, 5/30's at 10pm. Umm, sorry if they feel they got beat to the story. Try again next time 5/30. And, the sex offenders was not a KOAA idea, it's been done all across the country. But KRDO's approach will be different than KOAA's which was a lazy way to do it."

message: "Ha ha! Like 5/30 was the first station in the country to come up with a sex offender sweeps extravaganza!?! BREAKING NEWS: EVERYTHING WE ALL DO IS COPYING SOMEONE ELSE. Across town or across country its been done before. The 5/30 folks should get off their high horse because everything we've been doing and 13 has been doing lately is better than what our local Tiffany station has been putting on television."

message: "Following your post of the "Newschannel 13 copies 5/30" got a tip...
Why is it that people get so upitty about news stations doing similar stories? Doesn't everyone copy each other in order to be sure they don't miss reports? There's a lot of times that if they don't follow other stations leads, they miss stuff completely and run the risk of being completely scooped, left holding the empty bag. Isn't that kind of what happened to Mr. 'give them the credit' 5/30 with the missing girl case? It seems sometimes one station sees something on another and takes the idea and runs with it. It really comes down to the report itself. The investigation, the facts uncovered and the professionalism. That's why they're called 'competitors.' It's all the same event, the difference is the performance."

message: "New ND at 13 and they seem to be playing dirty. Will it get them anywhere?"

UPDATE 4/26/2008 - 7:45 p.m. And even more readers respond -

message: "New ND at KRDO is an idiot. It's all about pointing out the surface filth, and not really getting to the core of a subject. Who cares if it's not correct? Surface is what they are selling."

message: "Reading the responses from KRDO about copying 5/30. Obviously, in an attempt to please the new news director, the reporters there have lost their ethics. It's sad. Good competition is one thing, 2nd rate reporters trying to steal sweeps stories to get ahead just makes them look bad in the market. We all cover a lot of the same stories. KRDO, however, is taking stories from 5/30 and KKTV, and trying to make it as if it was their idea. For those reporters...good luck in your careers. This is a small business."