A disturbing new trend in local TV news.

Have your local yokel TV news talking heads begun to converse with "correspondents" on the scene of major and minor stories, even though the station doesn't have enough cash to buy a meteorologist, much less send someone hundreds or thousands of miles for a 45 second piece on farm price subsidies?

I guess the fact that everyone involved is on a first name basis is supposed to convince me that farm price report isn't the same canned piece of eyewash (Come on. Doesn't poetic license mean anything to you people?) available to every two-bit station subscribing to the same service?

I know this isn't particularly interesting or controversial. To be honest, the above hoodoo is just a cover for my Find The Hottest TV News Babe Contest.

There are no prizes and the contest will probably never end. Heck, in a couple of weeks I may simply forget all about it. It is just an excuse to post photos of hot babes.

Marketing, baby.