Making News: Texas Style – Catching Up

I’ve become a big follower of TV Guide Channel’s Making News: Texas Style. Warts and all, the show has grown on me. In fact, my biggest upset was it went into reruns just as I was getting interested. Now, it’s back.

I had two episodes on the DVR when I sat down tonight to watch. As always, there were a few story lines woven through the show, but I was most interested in a fresh out of college reporter named Kara Lee.

Her assignment was to produce a story on salvia. Here’s how salvia.net describes it.

4 thoughts on “Making News: Texas Style – Catching Up”

  1. Wow — am I so steeped in the cynical realities of the media that I didn’t even register this? It never occurred to me that what they were doing was wrong, but obviously they should have labeled the recreation as such….

  2. i was wondering what happened to this show i only saw it one time so i just googled it and this came up first.

    i live in ODESSA TEXAS which is where the show and cbs7 is located, even though they say midland on the show for some reason.

    odessa is the party town/rough town/drug running town, midland is the church town. the whole area has a pop of about 300k with 100k in midland and 100k in odessa, and probably 50k in “west odessa” and 50k in the other surrounding areas not in city limits.

    theres a saying here but i forget what it is something like “you raise your kids in midland and they party in odessa” or something g@y like that im sure the real thing sounds better.

    its just funny that when i saw this show it was actually about this place. and then they put “midland” on the intro or whatever. cactus and everything. theres no cactus here. just thousands of acres of mesquite and its the flattest place you will ever see in your life. “midland” is the “midpoint” between el paso and dallas, thats how it got the name. it was a stop on the railroad but oil boomed and now its booming again and the whole area’s economy is booming. oil is the only reason for these cities existence. probably the roughest part of texas is the west… el paso…

    CBS7 did a story about street racing a few years back that was pretty lame, the salvia deal kind of reminds me of it. like i said odessa is a huge drug trafficking (literaly tons of weed and cocaine) town being the first big city from mexico so no one smokes salvia. thats retarded. why would they. stupid story.

    do a search for CBS7 and street racing and the website anythingcars.com and you can see what they were doing a few years ago.

    just thought i would give you some insight since i thought the show was just a pilot and then cancelled!

  3. i was wondering what happened to this show i only saw it one time so i just googled it and this came up first.

    i live in ODESSA TEXAS which is where the show and cbs7 is located, even though they say midland on the show for some reason.

    odessa is the party town/rough town/drug running town, midland is the church town. the whole area has a pop of about 300k with 100k in midland and 100k in odessa, and probably 50k in “west odessa” and 50k in the other surrounding areas not in city limits.

    theres a saying here but i forget what it is something like “you raise your kids in midland and they party in odessa” or something g@y like that im sure the real thing sounds better.

    its just funny that when i saw this show it was actually about this place. and then they put “midland” on the intro or whatever. cactus and everything. theres no cactus here. just thousands of acres of mesquite and its the flattest place you will ever see in your life. “midland” is the “midpoint” between el paso and dallas, thats how it got the name. it was a stop on the railroad but oil boomed and now its booming again and the whole area’s economy is booming. oil is the only reason for these cities existence. probably the roughest part of texas is the west… el paso…

    CBS7 did a story about street racing a few years back that was pretty lame, the salvia deal kind of reminds me of it. like i said odessa is a huge drug trafficking (literaly tons of weed and cocaine) town being the first big city from mexico so no one smokes salvia. thats retarded. why would they. stupid story.

    do a search for CBS7 and street racing and the website anythingcars.com and you can see what they were doing a few years ago.

    just thought i would give you some insight since i thought the show was just a pilot and then cancelled!

  4. The first episode actually went into the differences between Midland and Odessa, and I think they used pretty much that same quote about ‘you raise your kids in Midland, you raise Hell in Odessa.’

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