Yep...It's Sweeps
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WPRI Reporter Caroline Goggin suffered a small stroke back in October.
Now that we are in the Feb Book she is telling her story.
Strokes happen to thousands of people each day and while the station could take the time to tell their story, it is not a rating book without it happening to one of them.
Goggin’s stroke was minimal, she said that she was diagnosed with an acute ischemic stroke, meaning a blood clot had lodged into an artery in her brain, cutting off the oxygen supply to a portion of the right side of my brain. After a few minutes, blood was able to push past the clot.
For many others, a stroke has a far more impact on the patient, cause longterm damage and even death.
But, when a rating book rolls around, stations feel they have to make it about them and so Goggin was trotted about by WPRI to tell her story.
It always amazes me how a station will share a Reporter or Anchor’s story of a health-related issue, give us all the details and tell us everything they went through.
But, if the station fires that same Reporter, “We do not talk about personnel issues.”
You have to love sweeps.
