And gas was a buck fifty a gallon. AC/DC was hitting it big with "A long way to the top if you want to rock and roll"..now,rock is dead,gas has you in slavery..and TV news people are here today,gone tomorrow. Kimberly Sakamoto on ch4 finally saved enough off her low salary to buy contacts. Enough of her horned rimmed JR.High school look glasses...after two years at KRON. Ironic,in that she might be the best reporter KRON has. Ahhhh 1977 vs 2011...quality vs social media reporting. If it gets worse,I wonder how?
Yeah, it's sad! We've got young people buried in facebook and twitter, chatting away in short bursts with poor grammar and foul language. They used to all be spending hours on their cell phones, now their cell phones aren't even used for calls anymore..instead they stare at these tiny screens and send off nonsensical and idiotic observations to their friends and 'followers' while completely ignoring the real world around them. And on the air? We've got everyone trying to be a poor man's John Tesh or poor woman's Mary Hart. All these fresh faced youngsters want to be gossip-mongers and mini celebs instead of trying to work hard and cover stories and actually sound like broadcast journalists. Big companies have been allowed to downsize the newspapers under the rationale of "no one reads the newspaper anymore!" Actually, one of the reasons people don't read the papers as much with the exception of the NY Times, is because they are basically crap! Have you seen what the bay Area newsgroup under that abomidable idiot Dean Singleton have done to once respectable papers such as the Merc, the CC Times and now the Oakland Tribune (which they wiped out!) As a result of all of this we've spawned a whole society full of semi-literate, attention deficeit, educationally challenged young people who have no communication skills and wouldn't know how to hold a conversation to save their lives. They're too busy e-mailing, texting, or tweeting! Ridiculous!
But it's no wonder that awareness and communication has been severely curtailed when you've got mega-monster companies such as Cumulus, Clear Channel and others who continually downgrade and downsize the product as deregulation wiped away an semblance of stations serving the community and covering news and sports in a professional manner. And the American public is so drugged on this crap that they don't even care! Sad!
I agree with comments regarding Wayne Walker. Simply put Wayne was the best sports anchor in the San Francisco ADI then and even today. No sports anchor has come close ...
Wendy was a hot little slut then wasnt she? Could have done her ten times a day. Too bad she seems to have rubbed so many co workers the wrong way. She's even got Radnich telling horror storys of her bitchiness.
Kimberly Sakamotto and reporter do not belong in the same sentence! She is an intern like Kristy Seefkin who made her way on camera by way of KRON's horny and unqualified GM. These CH5 people in 1977 would never make it in today's news climate unless they were skinny 20-somethings the boss wanted to bang! From the looks of sports guy Wayne, he'd be lucky to have a janitor's job at a station! hahahaha...
And gas was a buck fifty a gallon. AC/DC was hitting it big with "A long way to the top if you want to rock and roll"..now,rock is dead,gas has you in slavery..and TV news people are here today,gone tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteKimberly Sakamoto on ch4 finally saved enough off her low salary to buy contacts. Enough of her horned rimmed JR.High school look glasses...after two years at KRON. Ironic,in that she might be the best reporter KRON has.
Ahhhh 1977 vs 2011...quality vs social media reporting.
If it gets worse,I wonder how?
Yeah, it's sad! We've got young people buried in facebook and twitter, chatting away in short bursts with poor grammar and foul language. They used to all be spending hours on their cell phones, now their cell phones aren't even used for calls anymore..instead they stare at these tiny screens and send off nonsensical and idiotic observations to their friends and 'followers' while completely ignoring the real world around them.
ReplyDeleteAnd on the air? We've got everyone trying to be a poor man's John Tesh or poor woman's Mary Hart. All these fresh faced youngsters want to be gossip-mongers and mini celebs instead of trying to work hard and cover stories and actually sound like broadcast journalists.
Big companies have been allowed to downsize the newspapers under the rationale of "no one reads the newspaper anymore!" Actually, one of the reasons people don't read the papers as much with the exception of the NY Times, is because they are basically crap! Have you seen what the bay Area newsgroup under that abomidable idiot Dean Singleton have done to once respectable papers such as the Merc, the CC Times and now the Oakland Tribune (which they wiped out!) As a result of all of this we've spawned a whole society full of semi-literate, attention deficeit, educationally challenged young people who have no communication skills and wouldn't know how to hold a conversation to save their lives. They're too busy e-mailing, texting, or tweeting! Ridiculous!
But it's no wonder that awareness and communication has been severely curtailed when you've got mega-monster companies such as Cumulus, Clear Channel and others who continually downgrade and downsize the product as deregulation wiped away an semblance of stations serving the community and covering news and sports in a professional manner.
And the American public is so drugged on this crap that they don't even care! Sad!
I wish those people were working now. Wayne Walker on sports was a TV staple. Gary Radnich will never be what Wayne Walker was!
ReplyDeleteI agree with comments regarding Wayne Walker. Simply put Wayne was the best sports anchor in the San Francisco ADI then and even today. No sports anchor has come close ...
ReplyDeleteI went to high school with Walker's son. I don't think he spent a single day of school NOT stoned!
ReplyDeleteWendy was a hot little slut then wasnt she? Could have done her ten times a day. Too bad she seems to have rubbed so many co workers the wrong way. She's even got Radnich telling horror storys of her bitchiness.
ReplyDelete"Stay Classy, San Francisco!"
ReplyDeleteWalker was the king. And Radnich has consistently belittled him since Wayne retired. Really classless.
ReplyDeleteKimberly Sakamotto and reporter do not belong in the same sentence! She is an intern like Kristy Seefkin who made her way on camera by way of KRON's horny and unqualified GM. These CH5 people in 1977 would never make it in today's news climate unless they were skinny 20-somethings the boss wanted to bang! From the looks of sports guy Wayne, he'd be lucky to have a janitor's job at a station! hahahaha...
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