VNL News 12+

The app is great and easy to use but way too many notifications are sent, just minutes apart, that say the same exact thing. I've considered turning my notifications off for the app but I don't want to miss something important.

We recently traveled out west and along the way ate at McDonald’s. We appreciated the news of the McDonald’s E. coli coverage and one of us was a victim of that disease. Thanks to your coverage we suspected what it was and a visit to the emergency room confirmed it was the exact strain of E. coli that was linked to McDonalds.
Also, you had the article on the recalled carrots from California. The place we visited in California had those carrots at that time and of course did not know of the recall yet. Therefore, we were exposed to E. coli in two different places on one trip. The two recalls were involved with different strains of E. coli so there isn’t a question of where the disease came from. Thanks to the news coverage including the dates of the recalled carrots, the place that used that brand of carrots and currently had some in the fridge, has disposed of them.

80% of the stories you get are of fires, rapes, murders, and people in car crashes. If that’s your thing, then maybe you’d like this app which takes “if it bleeds it leads” to the next level. The local stories are horribly written by what appears to be middle school English students. Even the AP stories they pull in for filler are all of the things listed above, but just out of Florida or some other crazy state.

As far as the app goes, it crashes every so often. But it’s not terrible. The content is just garbage. Like a tabloid at the grocery store check out line.