Jan
3
My Man Mitch
Filed Under Mitch Daniels, television | 8 Comments
After years of watching satellite television, we’ve switched back to cable.
I’ve noticed something since switching back — I see Gov. Mitch Daniels on television a lot more than I did with the Chicago-centric satellite local television station package we had before.
Mitch is running up the Statehouse stairs telling people to stop smoking and shape up before they are rounded up and shipped to Wisconsin.
Flip to another channel and Mitch is talking to a WSBT television reporter about how Indiana’s time is now coordinated with the rest of the civilized world that has adopted daylight savings time.
Mitch is doing something here and something there and there are cameras following him around.
For years, I thought my man was Gov. Rod Blagojevich a/k/a “I’m not Public Official A.”
Maybe it is because Blago lives 1/2 hour away in Illinois’ capital city Chicago. So I don’t mess up people’s already weak geography skills, Illinois’ capital is really Springfield, but we all know all the real governing work in Illinois gets done in Chicago.
Mitch lives at least 150 miles away — a good 2 hour or so drive away. They always say we think of those who are closest.
While I still love watching the Chicago television news — especially since CBS 2 Chicago does a good job of covering Northwest Indiana — it’s nice to be able to flip over to WNDU and WSBT and get a feel for what is happening in the rest of Indiana.
I feel like a Hoosier again thanks to the miracle of television programming.
