In case you haven't heard, there's a parade in SF tonight.
KTVU has been plugging its Chinese New Year extravaganza --at least 7-8 times on Saturday's night's 5 PM newscast.
Wait, make that 10 times! And we're not even counting the extra live shots this morning on "MO2."
We don't denigrate Channel 2 for pubbing a significant cultural event for the Bay Area.
We wish, however, they were a bit more prudent placing a televised commercial venture of their own into actual news content. I know ethics long ago departed the local TV News handbook.
On the other hand, it could be worse.
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Why surprised? This is the same station that covers American Idol stories as though they're really serious hard news.
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DeleteHo Lee Fuk! KTVU is trying to atone for Tori Campbell's insensitive brain fart.
ReplyDeleteAnd I see that Mr. Know It All, Benny Fong, is co-anchoring the programming. How many times is he going to use the pronoun "I" in the telecast? After all, it's all about him, Mr. Rolling Stone and the self-proclaimed expert on Bay Area radio.
I'll watch the Cooking Channel, thank you.
Some Chinese people consider 2014 the year of the horse to be bad luck.
ReplyDeleteDon't listen to the naysayers.
Rich Lieberman, the sanctimonious expert on ethics. Funny how he pretends to be whatever he needs to be to criticize someone else.
ReplyDeleteBen's sister was the leader of several great Chinatown tours, especially at this time of year. She always came on Gene Burn's show and made the prep for the parade so much fun for everyone. It was very sad when she died, unexpectedly, because she was the life of the party. I think it's appropriate that he co-hosts this program.
ReplyDeleteDo you know the history of the San Fransisco Chinese People?
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting...
During the Gold Rush Days, people came from all over the world searching for Gold. The miners panning nuggets claimed various spots on the banks of the American River. Some camps were almost starving from lack of healthful cooking and they noticed the Chinese Camp miners were thriving, their cooks were finding wild fresh greens and they ate more varied diets.
The successful miners finally asked the Chinese miners if they were willing to sign on as their Cooks?
This led to the wonderful success of our famous San Francisco Chinatown!
In 1978, the Broncos lost to the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl XII . They also lost to the San Francisco Forty Niners (1990) in Super Bowl XXIV. Interestingly, both years were also the Year of Horse. In the 1978 defeat and this year's defeat, the MVP were defensive players.
DeleteMany years later, history repeats itself again in its own unique way.
The Orange Crush were flushed into mush by the Seattle's team. ...
Regardless, Go 9ers. .. .
The year of the horse? I call it the year of who gives a fuck besides the Chinese?
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you ask some of those thousands of non-Chinese standing around watching the parade?
DeleteIt was rumored that the number is getting close to 1 mega ...
DeleteWhy is it called "Chinese New Year?"...when it's also celebrated in Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia?
ReplyDeleteAndy why does everyone keep saying "Gun Ha Fat Choy" as if it's the "official" New Year's greeting--when in fact this (Cantonese) is only spoken by a small part of China's population? (more Chinese speak Mandarain. WAAAAY more).
It's true that in China there are many more Mandarin speakers than Cantonese speakers, but historically most Chinese immigrants here have been from the southern part of China which is Cantonese speaking. Only in recent years has that begun to change.
Delete@ 8:25pm - It's because the Chinese Chamber of Commerce sponsors the parade so it can call it whatever it wants. I had the same question before especially everyone was trying to be PC and I always wondered why it was not called the Lunar New Year parade.
ReplyDeleteHow is this any different from media outlets promoting their coverage of sporting events? NBC has been flogging the Olympics for weeks. Comcast reconfigured their remote menu so you go directly into the Olympics on demand.
ReplyDeleteTori Campbell reported that the host was Bangit Loud and the Queen of the parade Miss Verie Noi- Ze.
ReplyDeleteEh,others could do that better. I tried.