Is That Mommy's Lipstick?

The 60th anniversary of channel 33's first regular broadcast gave us many pictures and stories about how TV was done in the early 1950's. 

There were no live trucks, no computers, no on-the-scene video. Dick Florea used to tell the story of how the news reporters would carry a Polaroid camera to news conferences and show the pictures on the nightly newscast. 

Weathermen, like Bill Foster, would present the weather on a big, erasable board using stick-on H's and L's, connecting them with hand-drawn warm and cold fronts, and then carefully hand-writing the high, and low temperature, the wind speed and barometric pressure for all to see.

While it's nice to reminisce about the "stone age" of local television, one has to wonder what 21Alive is doing with their Facebook page.

Perhaps it's the Maven, but do you think that 21Alive could find a more enticing, professional-looking graphic to get people to click the link to the story? The yellow arrow is mine, the red blob is theirs.

The Maven also wonders why the paragraph under the picture does not tell more of the story, as opposed to instructing viewers on the fine art of making a comment. 

The story, itself, presents very well....just the gateway link to it looks like something that a toddler would draw using Mommy's lipstick.  

Here is what you would see, if you stopped laughing at the childish and unattributed map to click the link.