Local lap dogs do usual formula post-win 'coverage'; Giants rioting and looting reported as 'street celebrations'

The coverage was, once again, fairly predictable.

Except that once parts of the Mission began to resemble a war zone with massive oozes of fires, drunken louts spilling out into the streets and creating mayhem, instead of calling it for what it was, the latter...the lap dog "reporters" called it "street celebrations."

In Oakland, it's called "rioting". In SF, it's "bonfires" and "celebrations."

We're not trying to ruin the party--hell, we were one of the first the congratulate the "WORLD CHAMPION SF GIANTS."

But seriously, when there's  massive goofballs pillaging entire parts of the city and looting is clearly evident right nearby the ballpark and all you hear and see from the lap dogs is the endless screaming, drunken fans screaming largely incoherent things, you want to just turn off the channel and puke.

Fortunately, I didn't miss much because the lap doggers pretty much stayed on message. They feel obligated to perform the same old tired shit as if to say to the viewers that that's the only thing we're capable of doing therefore, we're going to stick with "what everyone else does." They haven't a clue what else to do so they rely upon the basic formula.

Endless, countless bar scene shots. Lots of typical usual banal inane false cheerleading by reporters, (most of whom who continued to look utterly foolish surrounded by the drunken louts,) but hey, there's a party going down on here!

There's no denying the significance of the Giants first-ever World Series championship in  SF. And everyone wants to have a good time. Alcohol abounds and there's bound to be even a smidgen of over-lapping celebration, but take away those elements and you pretty much have the same, tired old ingredients.

Why the hell NOT try to be creative?

There's bound to be inebriated ones who can at least offer a more lucid "All right Giants!" without appearing to look as if they're about to pass out at any given moment. The news folks just continue to feed us this because they don't know what to try otherwise.

While the reporters concentrated on the "street celebrations", a reporter from KCBS near AT&T Park had his news car kicked in and reported lots of people setting fires. Nobody else bothered to show up to to a follow up.

An individual was shot and killed at a Marina-district nightclub shortly before midnight and only a minor report from KCBS made the airwaves. All the other lappers were too busy going home and retreating.

Roberta Gonzales from KPIX tweeted that there was a lot of mayhem near the Embarcadero and that it was "scary", but all we ever heard was the usual "Giants fans are 'showing it" by the few outlets bothering to report the goings-on.

Nobody expects to see or hear Koppel or Cronkite out there, yeah, I get it....but there comes a point where the pack mentality trumps real honest-to-god reporting. We all want to see the fans doing their thing and having a good time but a lot of us would love to also see some of the other elements that get largely ignored by the troops.

Hell, wouldn't it have been nice to stay at MoMo's where an incredibly lively, but undrunken mass seemed to show the true spirit of the aftermath of what had just taken place. Sure, many seemed blitzed, but there weren't staggering and had at least mildly coherent things to say that weren't drown out by obnoxious dweebs whose only hope is to mug wildly on camera and make reporters look foolish.

Mission accomplished.

I've said this before. I hate the typical post-game win crap, be it SF, Oakland, anywhere. IT. IS. LAZY.

And more so, when real news is being ignored by the 6000 shots of the real lunatic fringe going drunken bonkers, it only reinforces the obvious. I think the parade route got more TV shots than Renteria's homer.

And to be fair, this isn't a strictly SF thing--it pretty much is a national phenomenon, but it's certainly more pronounced here. Worse yet, its only going to get worse and that's when I'm checking out for good.


Enjoy your celebrations.