You Call This “Journalism”?

Yesterday, a local television station went to the local psychic fair, and asked a local psychic to predict the weather for the weekend. The psychic happily responded with:

“27 on Sunday and 30 on Saturday. No snow. Maybe Sunday night or Monday. I think it’s going to be a weekday before you see snow,” Georgina Power said.

What kind of moron asks a psychic to predict the weather two days in advance? In fact, what kind of moron asks a psychic a question for which the non-psychic answer is already available? How can you tell that the psychic is using psychic means to make this prediction, as opposed to the psychic watching the TV news to make the prediction? Did this reporter ever stop to think that the psychic had probably checked the weather for the weekend as many, many Americans do, and that the psychic knew the answer already? And what kind of ridiculous editor runs this as news?