No Class At Bama, Slow Night At Channel 5

The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa announced that all classes have been canceled from January 6-8. The Crimson Tide will be playing in the BCS national championship game on January 7 in Pasadena, California. It's good to see that the Alabama administration made this decision, but Hook'em Horns!

Channel 5 continues to provide weaker news coverage. Tonight's lead story was about the Tiger Woods scandal, including interviews with Lebron James on the issue and John Daly's ex-wife (or soon to be ex) about life as a golfer wife. Surely there was more important local news in Memphis today. Like the second story about weather associated deaths and local flooding. Or the third story about a local woman charged with arson after she allegedly set her former house on fire after being evicted. WMC-TV's gatekeepers need to get their priorities straight and focus on local or important national news and save entertainment news for later in the broadcast.

If WMC's limited pre-game access to Lebron James was used by Janice Broach to ask questions about Woods instead of legitimate basketball/sports questions from Jarvis or Anderson, then someone at Channel 5 needs to find a new job very quickly.

And for the quote that Broach couldn't find from Lebron, here's a little help.