The Media frauds in this town; Taking no prisoners in the City by the Bay

So, you want some back material, deeper thought and reflection. A little more depth. Sure, keep in mind that as I've said on numerous occasions I'm not a very good writer. I can talk better than I write which explains why I'm blogging. (Wink, wink.)

As I navigate through the sordid fortress once again, I can see, read, and hear all the frauds at work once again. A reader asked me to be a little more "Roger Ebert" and less Beavis, which kind of befuddled me a bit, after all, I thought I made my point(s) rather clear.

True, I do take a lot of shots here, but I think I make my case. And at least own up to the rip jobs by placing my name behind all the blasts. Are they personal? Sure, to some extent because egos are involved and that's personal.

I've railed on and on about how how truly scurrilous KRON is; how utterly phony and disingenuous Copeland is; how Comcast Sports Bay Area is nothing more than a vanilla/Wonder bread factory staffed by mostly young and cheap hacks that wouldn't know talent and ingenuity if their life depended on it.

More shops are getting more awful by the moment. KPIX is losing more cred by the day, viewers too, as they chip/chop more personnel and looked rather ordinary-sorta down a Fresno path with little soul and spirit. They are lead by a truly mean-spirited guy who likes to show his limited power, yeah, "power", what a fuckin' joke. Truth is, with all the slash-and-dash, the results are essentially the same. Good planning. And that weekend sports diva is still the shits, but at least she has an excuse. The M-F guy seems more concerned about his hair and GQ-look. Keep reading the teleprompter, fashion boy.

KRON is still KRON which means as long as they have those assholes upstairs mining the fields, nothing will change, not even a potential new owner. But if Young is able to sell, first thing new owner must do is rid the building of the Big 3, the GM, his sleazy news direc and his buddy, countess bitch-goddess. They're total frauds and imbeciles who only stay on because perhaps, they have pictures and work cheap enough that corporate is satisfied with their inept, insufferable, abysmal running-into-the-ground operation.

KGO-TV saunters on, managing a decent product, adding more news segments, but starting to show a rather bland and benign, antiseptic, really, approach to local TV news. They have quality people over there, but somehow they seem to be more muted by the day, welcome to the new business model.

KTVU still rules the market, although I'm frightened by the new look, the false "high energy" of some of the newer hired hands. I can watch Rita Williams, Ken Wayne, Frank Somerville, and John Fowler nonstop and am delighted that Mark Ibanez is still at the ship, but I cringe at Eric Rasmussen and Mike Mibach.

KNTV, (NBC Bay Area), I don't have the slightest idea of what they're shooting for, what direction they want to take--maybe they don't have a clue either. They seem, of late, to just want to throw some new shit on the wall and see if it sticks...I like Raj Mathai, but I question the outright dissing of Tom Sinkovitz--that was a shit move. And if Janelle Wang is your splashy new hire, you're in serious disarray.

Radio makes me want to puke. I thought LA was bad, what with KABC and KFI sounding so astonishingly horrid, until I had to listen to present-day SF terrestrial audio excrement. Shit, its so sad. So sad.

You have fucking interns, INTERNS, doing news updates. You have garbage outlets that were once dominant and admired, respected and envied. Now you have has-beens and asshole phonies who represent "talent." Really, no-name nothings who do the same tired shit day in and day out who pretend one thing and actually execute the opposite.

One in particular, and I've mentioned him too many times, is one foot out the door. He used to be the king here, a long time ago, but is now firmly ensconced in radio trivial pursuit. He has a habit of telling people that they should have kids and concentrate on their family--I think he thinks he's Dr. Phil. Maybe he should practice what he preaches. He likes to take indirect shots at people whom he's deeply insecure with, yet his own past personal life is filled with enough peccadilloes to fill a section at AT&T Park.

The fact that no one takes him to task is quite comical. He's open picking--personally, I know there's a growing legion of people who despise the phony, but are afraid of his "power." Power? What power? He's a fucking shill and asshole to the 20th power. He has more enemies than I do. And he's at the last stage of his work, let him just know that I know everything. He doesn't fool me anymore--maybe he thinks he's still a hero, but he's not.

**I've now mostly turned to satellite, KCSM, KCBS and KQED.

KGO, like Elvis, left the building many moons ago. I feel sorry for them, really I do, because for a time, KGO, like KSFO, was the industry giant in SF. Now, one is on its last legs and the other is merely audio wall paper for the right-wing echo machine. Talk about blather.

KGO, the post-Luckoff era, like the Titanic, although the Titanic at least had better bathrooms. KGO seems to think that catering to the young demo means hiring weekend boobs and mentioning Facebook equals promise. Yeah, promise my ass.

Karel? Laughingstock of the town. This is a schmuck who now uses his show to hack items on his website, plug his "comedy shows" so he can pay his mortgage. When he's not mock-crying or railing about nothing, it gives him a chance to spew forth his veiled racism. Gay, straight, bi-sexual, I could care less, this hack is an utter bore.

And Copie? Seriously, Brian, you think you got shit on me? Really now, ask the other comics in town what I have on you? You wanna go that path and dance with the devil, be my guest. I used to think you were funny and creative, but all you are is a major, A-grade back-stabber. And the audience knows your a complete phony too, or did you care to inquire? A ha, who needs consultants.

The truth is nobody's perfect. Including me. But I don't profess, and never have, that my shit don't stink. This business went to hell in a hand basket, and yes, I know I'm repeating myself, but just when you think it can't get any worse, it gets worser.


Yeah, Olbermann is a pain in the ass, but I'll listen to him. He's good. Jon Stewart is starting to get too big and lose his edge, but he's still infinitely so brilliant that you stop and listen and watch. Charlie Rose has NY nuance and pizazz--the old Tom Snyder set works too. Ronn Owens lost his luster a few years back, but he can still make me listen to an open hour of news talk, (minus the Sleeptrain ad.) Michael Krasny, Sonny Buxton, Scott Ostler, Jon Carroll, you have my eyes and ears.

The rest of 'yous? Bad. So artificial. So softie. Maybe it's the water here. Which explains why the pizza and bagels generally suck and the delis are so fucking abysmal. And seriously, where the hell can you get a good drink at a nice bar? I HATE the newbie places--they reek of a cheap hooker in the tenderloin. And damn, that gets old, like a bad dream.

Anyway, have a cool 4th and as my buddy, Billy Joel and InsideCable says, DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN!

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