TYPICAL: In all the talk yesterday (Friday) about how hot as hell it was in the city (106 --a record), and elsewhere ...not one station's anchors inquired to the weather mavens about why this is happening. Might there be some reason as to why we seem to be having more and more heat waves? This one is historic. And combine the weather in Houston and relative cool in the east, what's up? Instead, we got about a gazillion, usual, kids in Walnut Creek suffering; kids in Novato at school being sent home; MOS shit: "Hey, are you hot?" Reporters are so dumb. And willing schmendricks on the street being able sheep for the moronic correspondents. Damn right! it was hot and it'll be hot today too. Bill Martin at KTVU kept shaking his head Friday night and while that's all well and good and perfectly normal it might have been better if Martin could have tried to explain what the hell is going on in the atmosphere up above. Instead, all Martin did was show the temperatures and act like a giddy science teacher addressing his students.
Of all people, and I say that because she's only on, sparingly, during the weekend, KGO-TV's weatherwoman extraordinaire, Lisa Argen, went into detail on the unusually strong High Pressure system creating this mess. (It is a mess--most of us don't have air conditioning and are schftzing in agony) Argen spent a good half-minute detailing the fact that 36 of the 38 million people living in California were experiencing the heat wave and how that, in and off itself, was a weather fact never felt before. It was refreshing (no pun) to get some sort of explanation as opposed to the usual standard faire.
| Greg Papa |
*415 Media has learned that Raiders and NBC Sports Bay Area's veteran broadcaster/anchor, Greg Papa is having "major issues" with his wife, Angela Garay and likely headed for divorce --in fact, Papa's Eastbay house is up for sale.
*KQED has intense issues with NABET and prospects for a strike are becoming more real.
A union guy explains to me:
"KQED wanted to offer us reduced hours of work creating interactive. When we know that on average, more than 40 hours of technical work go into creating "Newsroom" each week (it can be as much as 52 hours depending on editing and remotes) - so when KQED offered 16 hours of work for use in interactive in return for each ½ hour of interactive material for air on KQED-TV we were offended."
KQED is union busting.
Hmph...take away Bill Martin's glasses and he'll turn Grandma's house into a fucken drive-thru at Carrow's. Blind Bastard.
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn't Papa dye his eyebrowns too?
DeleteIt seems to be the case all over the country, that most not all, but most weather guessers are giddy idiots. They are no more meteorologists than say, Arnold Ziffel. Most of these people have a certificate from a mail order college in Mississippi.George Carlin's "Hippy Dippy Weatherman" was never more true than today.
ReplyDeleteIs Papa having "major issues" with his wife because he's a pompous smarmy asshole? Couldn't be that . . .
ReplyDeleteI agree Papa has a mean streak to him and he treats that women TV host like crap. Although she knows crap about sports in general
DeleteI didn't even know he was married. Papa talks about every dive in the country and the woman. Not good if the wife hears that. Not too smart.
ReplyDeleteI've often wondered about weather casters and their credentials. There is a Yuge difference between Steve Paulson (the best there is) and, for instance. Rosemary Orozco who doesn't really seem to know much about the weather. She reads a teleprompter real well tho. It would be interesting to compare their credentials.
ReplyDeleteRosemary has much better legs
DeleteRosemary's credentials are Rosemary, that's all she needs!
DeleteShe has "much better" everything!! Paulson is flat chested and has zero rear curvatures.
Credentials...She is a Symmetrical Goddess, perfect from any angle! She has the "it factor," which is the most important credential you can have!!
Speaking of weather: Unlike some people, I don't hate Michelle Griego on the KPIX early morning news -- she just strikes me as pretty average. So I was surprised (& disgusted) yesterday when she reported that the bad air quality caused by the current heat wave was being "exasperated" by the smoke from nearby forest fires.
ReplyDeleteJust listen to KCBS. They remind us in a giddy fashion "on the eights" just how fucking hot it will be. They just can't wait. Even if it is "on the eights". Bloomberg 960 is sounding better evet day.
ReplyDeleteAs far as scenes from Walnut Creek and Novato with regard to the weather, wouldn't you want to report from there as opposed to scenes from the "Hood" where you chances of getting ripped off and hurt are high!!
ReplyDeleteSo much truth to your comment.
DeleteUgh. Newsroom is boring as hell. KQED should go back to the reporters' roundtable format they had on "This Week in Northern California." That was a lot more interesting, and I'd have to assume it was a lot cheaper to produce.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear about Greg Papa's possible divorce if this is true. No wonder why he hasn't been on The Happy Hour as much recently. I thought he was blowing off the show, but it looks like he's going through some personal things.
ReplyDeleteOn a serious note, hopefully he can work out things with his wife. You hate to hear about things like this.
He can't handle working more than 2hrs a day on 957? Really?
Deletehaha. I wasn't talking about his radio show. I was referring to his TV show on NBC Sports Bay Area, The Happy Hour.
DeleteRegarding his personal life, that could be a factor in him not being on the Happy Hour show as much recently. Regarding his radio show, he has had days off here and there, but that was moreso because of his Raiders duties.
Lisa Argen in a tight fitting dress and heels - she can give me weather anytime!
ReplyDeleteMethinks Rich had a little something something once with Lisa. It would explain the constant posts, infatuation and praise heaped her way all of the time.
DeleteIf KQED goes on strike...I will die laughnig...all through the next pledge drive.
ReplyDeleteMore Doo-Wop please.
I went into town (Oakland) earlier and saw a reporter. Asked what I thought of the heat. I said "Could be hotter!" The look on the dood's face was priceless.
ReplyDeleteNABET needs to reveal the KQED financials. The station pleads poverty but won't reveal the salaries, benefits, and, pork in the yearly budget. Most have forgotten that the newspaper strike in the late sixties spawned the dual and triple anchor format that exists today. All the Chronicle columnists and major reporters did a show called "Newsroom" on KQED each night where they sat around a table and reported on the events and personalities they covered that day. Once the strike was over stations started shifting from the one guy at the desk reading the news to three guys reading the news, sports, and weather. It's still the same today but much more gender equal. It was broadcast from KQED's first studio(warehouse) at 4th and Bryant.
ReplyDeleteWhy would a Fox O&O put science into their weather forecast? Clearly, what we're experiencing is part of some sort of "intelligent design," or rather, because an angry and vengeful god has taken issue with so much sexual deviancy. Too much non-pre-approved science at Fox could get one unemployed, no?
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like Mohammad's weather on that HD-3 station for Middle Easterners.
DeleteIts really hot digging my bomb shelter..
ReplyDeleteMake sure you get a permit!
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