KION's Center for Investigative [In]Action

First off, I've been more than a little amused by KION's "news". Whether it's newlyweds Marc Cota-Robles and Jasmine Viel's Ron Burgundyesque vocal delivery and cooler-than-thou "He's Marc, I'm Jas, here's the news" nightly intro, or the overall sense that their newscasts smack of something just slightly more polished than a community college's Video Production 101's newscast exercise, there's usually something for me to laugh at or shake my head towards.

A recent favorite is KION's dripping-with-self-importance "Center for Investigative Action", complete with Law & Order-reminiscent intro (think "In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by...") and posedown. To wit:

Can't you just hear the Law & Order "dah-dah" sting?

In any event, I wanted to see their "CIA" inaction in action. Their most recent bit of vigorous truth-pursuing was the following report: Editor's note: Shortly after posting this blog entry and video, KION's "CIA" section no longer has video clips. If/when the video returns, I'll re-link the video to this entry.

So it was an adequate story of the proposal to avoid prison overcrowding by releasing lower-tier inmates in California. Ducky. What was so hard-hitting about this piece? What exactly did they uncover that wouldn't have been discovered if the "Center for Investigative Action" hadn't gotten involved?

Know your role, would-be Sam Waterstons and Mariska Hargitays. You're a small-market newscast, and unless you actually perform some investigative journalism, you look like small town posers. I dare any of these intrepid reporters to put stuff like this on their résumé reels when they apply for jobs in bigger markets. Or perhaps they already have and that's why we're stuck with them.

PS: "Attorney" is usually spelled with "ey" at the end, not "attorn".