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Buying lottery tickets should not get you on the TV news

Published Thursday, September 23, 2004 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

I will be a happy man if I never watch another local TV newscast interview people buying lottery tickets and asking, "What would you do with the money if you win?" To do that, however, means I'll have to stop watching local TV newscasts. Why don't they just go to the casinos and interview the blue hairs on the nickel slots? "What would you do if you won the jackpot, Granny?" Same friggin' principle. Why are we interviewing you? And why are we watching?

1) You're not going to win.
2) If you're not giving us the money or throwing a gigantasaurous party with the dough, we don't care if you win. If you're not going to care about us little people, we're not going to care about you. Unless you marry Britney Spears or J. Lo. Then we'll make a big to-do about it. Even then, we won't know your name.

Sorry.