Some would say that Tegna has become a joke in the TV news industry.

Now, it appears that at least one Tegna station agrees.

WUSA hired (and we are not making this up) a comedian to anchor their morning newscast. Someone, actually tipped FTVLive off to this weeks ago, when they pointed us to a post on Instagram by WUSA manager Mike Redding.

It was so ridiculous that we didn't believe it. There is no doubt that many Tegna station have basically given up on covering news, but a comedian? It had to be a joke. 

But then this tweet from WUSA confirmed that the station really did hire a comic.

in the video above, comic Reese Waters pokes fun at the fact that he is vastly under qualified to anchor the news, yet he will be, and he will be doing it in Washington D.C. at the Tegna station. 

Uncle Walter isn't laughing, but we can bet he is flipping over.