WJLA Puts Middle Finger In Weather Report

Since when did WJLA go all Gawker on us?

This morning a headline on a weather story reads, “D.C. Weather Monday: The heat will make you want to die — StormWatch 7.” The lede further drives the point of the weather inferno home: “Heat wave today? This is more like a heat middle finger.”

A reader writes in, “Am I the only one who finds this headline/article a bit Gawkerish for WJLA?”

Details in the story by John Metcalfe also strike a piercing note — “The gates of hell are swinging open in D.C.,

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