Thursday Bay Area media rundown notes and comments

**Bay Area summer weather forecasts: morning fog, sun, coastal clouds, warm/hot inland. See ya in November when the first storm deluge floods Marin.

Next.

**Local anchor throws to sports: "Wow, exciting soccer day for USA, eh Lair?"! (In truth, like mostly everyone else, anchor/anchorette phonies don't have a pucking clue about soccer and if USA were not involved, World Cup "action" would be lost and outta sight, outta mind.

**Nice that the local lawn furniture sale station that places infomercials in its news blocks is sending love letters via its various foreign correspondents.

**No, its not that all shocking that sports anchors are now being used to do occasional news tonsiling. It's part of the new business model and with leaner bottom lines, (still) perfectly reasonable. Goshee!, imagine!, toy-dept. idol HAS TO READ NEWS? Yeah, rough life, kid. We feel for you.

**A few weeks back, I wondered aloud what Herb Caen would think of all this mess. Add the late Pete Wilson to the mix.

**Worse than root canal dept: anonymous "commenters" that spew out crap and try to make it look legit. Hey, we know who you and the more crude you spit out, the more 'yous expose yourself. If you want to rip, cool, fine, be man enough to identify yourself, otherwise you have to watch an "Ellen" re-run.

**Is there ever a point in MY life, YOUR life, ANYONE's life that KQED will ever state that its not in trouble and is making money and not saddled with financial issues? For three decades, all I've ever seen and heard is, pledge drives, cooking shows, pledge drives, upper-tier managers making six figures, budget problems, pledge drives; OK spit out Charlie Rose, Jim Lehrer, a few Northern California news shows, Belva Davis, and a new restaurant show and you have your Channel 9/KQED.

**News item: Managing "Editor" of SF Examiner is gone. You know, I don't know if I'm going to be able to sleep tonight.

**Who was the genius that somehow perched Walnut Creek as the locale to do MOS "opinions?" As if Walnut Creek is the zeitgeist of "culture"? Tell you what. I say Walnut Creek is the brainchild of every pucking CONSULTANT that aims to get WHITE, YOUNG, A25-54 demos into the sales dept. Just don't be so damn quiet about it.

**KGO radio Jennifer Jones-Lee memo: The "It's FRIDAY!" weekly blurt-out was real annoying the first time you uttered it; now, its become overly nauseating, like Jerry Seinfeld-making love-to-Lady Ga Ga, nauseating.

**Dear Cheryl Jennings/ABC: What I meant was you look GREAT and happen to be one helluva TV anchor, that's all, (psst, the "old" thing was, uh, intended to send a message)

**Same dept. sort of dept: Yes, I know I've said this too many times, but I trust Rita Williams more than I trust anyone else over there in Jack London Square. Yo, Cox, don't mess with her.

**If David Louie, Don Sanchez, ever split KGO, call Matier and Ross.

**Hey, now this is cute...a certain sports editor of a local outlet recently brought 2 of his just-awarded Emmys into a local bar/restaurant. What isn't known was that his tab was slightly  more than the value of the gold-plated Emmys.

**Brain Sussman of KSFO "great American" and "You're a 'Great American" latest count at 1,765 as of June 21. The over/under is 2000. (Take the over)

**THIS JUST IN: "Sleeptrain" and Steve Moskowitz are attempting to form a trifecta of Jan Wahl, Henry Tannenbaum, and Tommy Tolbert as a side freak show at the Bay Bridge toll plaza. All donations will go to the sales dept. at "Mattress Discounters."

**KNBR and KRON are reportedly considering a new in-house mutual ad slogan: "OUR interns are better than YOURS!"

**Should be the ultimate perfect storm this weekend: Boston Red Sox in town against the 'Gints, gay pride parade weekend, hot weather forecast--I can sense SFPD brass are just thrilled. Only thing missing is Critical mass.

**Just love to see the local herds send out their dim bulbs to "cover" the idiot morons who wait in line overnight to snatch up the latest Apple IPhone, schmyphone. As if Apple needs more publicity and the mutant TV dummies whose "gee-whiz" reaction amounts to vomitized gushing. OMG, do us all a favor and press a live MUTE button. I did.

**Geraldo Riveria is reportedly considering a SF visit. Attention all massage therapists!

**Well, so much for that Randy Shandobil--Ron Dellums dinner at Tommy's Joynt.

**"Today on the Gary Radnich show, Gary gives us the virtues of being responsible, having kids, highlighting the latest rap single from 'lil Wayne, and oh, by the way, 'for the 900th time, Dan, (thank you Patrick) 'make sense?" Uh, no, Gary, not really, but what the hell, forgive us, we thought you wanted to talk sports, SPORTS? Whatever.

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