ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE AT
KTVU; CHAOTIC NEWSROOM
Anchors/Reporters/EP's' staffers
still shaken over Nia Wilson
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| KTVU News Director Amber Eikel |
picture
*The fallout from the inappropriate
picture of murdered Oakland teen
Nia Wilson continues at KTVU;
the latest?
In a stunning display of the angst
that haunts the building, VP/News Dir,
Amber Eikel broke down in the
front of a shocked staff; according
to my source who witnessed the
scene, anchor Claudine Wong
also began to sob uncontrollably.
Said the source:
"It was the most awkward scene in the newsroom I've ever witnessed and I've seen some beauties."
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| Claudine Wong smiling here but crying in KTVU newsroom |
Why?
Eikel, says Fox2 contacts, was the only person willing to work for GM, Gregg Kelley.
"He could control her," said the source.
But it was Eikel's own hired reporter and Executive Producer working the morning (and later Noon News) that were responsible for allowing the Wilson photo (in which a picture of her holding a cell-phone case that resembled a gun) made Channel 2's air on its Noon News--so, says the source:
"It falls on her."The name of the reporter and EP working Monday is not known but the reporter sent a piece back to the station for air and the producer, also not known, quickly pulled the Wilson image off her Facebook account and nobody bothered to check the image and just ran with it.
A newsroom source: "This is another 'fuckin' Asiana!" --referring to KTVU's most recent news blunder in which fake pilot's names off the downed Korean jetliner made it Noon News back in July, 2013, an embarrassing incident that still haunts KTVU today.
And now this. You thought it would never happen again. But it has.
And like the Asiana embarrassment, heads will roll. The first to go is said to be ND, Eikel.
Making matters all the more complicated, a series of protests are set to take place in front of KTVU's Jack London Square studios in the coming days.
#415MEDIA EXCLUSIVE
I'm glad someone or two are being fired. Doesn't the reporter look before they read? Asian was bad - especially when people laughed about it ( ronn owens), but this is worse, shameful and pure ignorance. The poor family of this typical beautiful Teenager - makeup, clothes,friends. Shame on you.Your tears mean nothing. Real tears- look at Nia's family.
ReplyDelete> Doesn't the reporter look before they read? Asian was bad...
Delete"Asian" was bad? Don't YOU look before you read (or post in this case)??
Why was Claudine crying and what does she have to do with the Nia Wilson fiasco? So much for hiring young and cheap news "news producers".
ReplyDeletePerhaps Claudine is one of those empathetic people who can feel the hurt and pain a friend or colleague is obviously experiencing.
DeleteIf these Millennials would only get jobs they wouldn't have time to do all this protesting.
ReplyDeleteI don't get why people are so shocked by this.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it a frequent topic of discussion on this blog that Fox News is running (or spell that "ruining") the KTVU news department now?
There's no crying in schlocky local TV news!
ReplyDeletehmmm...signs say "end racist reporting". How about a sign suggesting that people not use shots of themselves with guns and gun lookalike items as their facebook picture? Would that be racist? There are responses from Hollywood stars like Reese Witherspoon showing a picture of the victim with flowers and pretty dresses.Would they be as outraged if the victim's own facebook photo reached their attention? You know the answer. Their hatred of guns would be at odds with their hatred of racism.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised that Ritchie Rich "approved"of your post. It was her post with the fake gun, that's all that matters. It's fair game. I don't see what the issue is, unless you want the News to pick and choose what we get to see. That's called fake news. Nobody forced her to post the gun pic. Sorry leftist's if it doesn't fit your agenda
Deletedear 12:54...I'm 11:51, and I"m a flaming liberal.This isn't a right/left issue. It's a common sense one.
ReplyDeleteEntertainers have always been role models. The proven criminals, thugs and sluts that pass for entertainers these days are responsible for profile page images like Wilson's.
ReplyDelete18 is still a very impressionable age. The rap culture has been corrupting teens for decades now, and there's no sign of abatement.
Yeah and let's blame the Heavy Metal rock culture for influencing young white males to commit mass shootings. Stop putting the blame on entertainers. Get your facts right buddy.
DeleteA white man died from a stabbing on BART recently, but it just doesn't get the coverage that a black stabbing does. Talk about racist.
DeleteAs funny as the League of Their Own parody toward Tom Hanks' childhood TV station is, I hope these upcoming protesters target two obvious figures responsible for the unnecessarily oppressive pressure that all staff are under at KTVU - Gregg Kelly and The Firm, who are trying to create a Handmaid's Tale affiliate in Libbyland. I encourage all Oaklanders to confront the only major TV station that used to be all about Oakland and the East Bay with some San Francisco and a little bit of San Jose on the side. Now FOX2 is as lockstep alongside other FOX affiliates and more so than the Giants Fan Base mostly is under Lockstep Larry. The platform should reflect the community it serves; of course, in local television, that is becoming increasingly rare.
ReplyDeleteSo lesse...She posed with the gun. If FB had tried to censor it there would have been an outcry from her and other aspiring gangstas. So KTVU uses it. Now there's an outcry from her family and other aspiring gangstas. So in summary: don't censor me when I post because there's nothing to be ashamed of, I gotta be me, but when I'm dead, you'd better make me look like an angel. Isn't there a picture of me posing with the pope or something?
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely agree with 2:56. People are making way too much over this. Unless there is evidence to the contrary, there was no malicious intent to impugn her character. I could see some reporter quickly pulling up the pic and not immediately realizing it was a gun-phone pic -- an innocent mistake. Even then, so what? It was her own public pic that she posted. GROW UP!!... As Rich wrote, some KTVU reporter had the pic on FB and the station picked it up... Who was the reporter????
ReplyDeleteBut aren't you guys saying exactly the opposite of Rich? He blames the media when they did their jobs. Wake up Rich . Put the blame where....... never mind, there is no blame. Don't want to get reposted? Don't post in the first place. Hard to follow???
Delete> People are making way too much over this.
Delete> Unless there is evidence to the contrary,
> there was no malicious intent to impugn her character.
People don't need evidence...certain people, anyway. They just need outrage, no day jobs to go to, and John Burris and the "Reverend" Al Sharpton on hand. Where's their outrage over OJ stabbing his ex-wife and an innocent waiter? Where's their outrage when their own kind kills person after person after person and we see their mommas and grandmommas on TV saying, "He such a GOOD boy! He just done made one mistake!" Pul-lease!
Just Wow, @9:42PM...Your whole comment is a "STEREOTYPE" wrapped with a Red Ribbon on top?! You come off as an out of touch, FAUX NEWS Bubble insulated Know Nothing!
DeleteDo you actually have any African American Friends, or Co-Workers who can update you on how out of touch you are, & who can bring you into the 21st Century??? Better yet, take at Black History Class at your local Community College, or check out a Book at your local Library about African Americans!? Also, here is some more sage advise...GET OFF the FAUX NEWS Gravy train, the Conspiracy Theorist Hypocrite Alex Jones Info Wars, the Daily Caller, BREITBART NEWS, & the Drudge Report! That's the problem in a nutshell...Smdh?!
9:42 so true. All one has to do is look at Chicago crime statistics any day of the week that ends in a Y. The liberal news machine covers up so much, sorry 3:10. Go back to HuffyourPo or MSLSD.
DeleteI used to work in the news biz, for all the TV stations Rich writes about, and we were told what balance of white vs. black crime we were allowed to put in a show, how we had to try to balance each black crime with a white crime. The trouble is when you have seven or ten black crime stories a day and one or no white ones, it's literally impossible. Then someone like 3:10 would call the station and accuse us of exactly what he says up there. SMH... Hey blacks, you don't want to be shown to be the gangsta thugs you are, don't commit all the crimes you do. It's really that simple. Oh, I know, slavery is an excuse for everything.
DeleteYou claim to have worked in the "news biz". I don't believe you for a second. No news department has been told to "balance black v. white" crime.
DeleteToo bad Copie the race-monger is not on. He would be all over this story and blaming whitey.
ReplyDeleteI think Eikel does a pretty good job as News Director at KTVU. Obviously this was a terrible mistake, one that should have never been made, but the fact is KTVU, as a majority, is not racist. Eikel is a hard core liberal, there is no way she would have hired a news producer who thought showing that image was ok. It was just a lapse of judgement on the EP's part. Look, KTVU has by far the most black reporters/anchors of any station in the Bay, (Malcom, Chambers, Garry, Senior, Gomez) and they run a lot of in depth stories on poverty, violence....etc... They started the Barber Shop Fourm too.... ALSO, KTVU had the first crew at the scene of the actual stabbing, and had an exclusive interview with the grieving father. They covered the story very well, and ran one insensitive photo. Not sure why all the outcry. Whoever gets fired in a scapegoat.
ReplyDelete"KTVU has by far the most black reporters/anchors of any station in the Bay, (Malcom, Chambers, Garry, Senior, Gomez) and they run a lot of in depth stories on poverty, violence....etc... They started the Barber Shop Fourm too.... ALSO, KTVU had the first crew at the scene of the actual stabbing..."
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, that's what makes them great. Uh-huh.
As an African American, I do "Not" believe that KTVU is racist at all...Period! But some of the KTVU's current practices need to be Updated, & Corrected. Because some of their current methods can be construed as being racially insensitive to People of Color. Like posting FB Photos of Youthful Victims of Violence in Compromising Positions.
DeleteMedia Outlets should reach out to the Victims
Families, & request a Photo of the Deceased for their News Report. Instead of randomly taking a compromising photo off of the Victims FB Page.
> Because some of their current methods
Delete> can be construed as being racially insensitive
> to People of Color.
If a white person had been holding the "gun" and they posted it, would they be insensitive to whites?
If a black posts a picture posing with a gun, are they insensitive to themselves?
> Like posting FB Photos of Youthful Victims of
> Violence in Compromising Positions.
Who put the picture there in the first place?
> Media Outlets should reach out to the Victims
> Families, & request a Photo of the Deceased for
> their News Report.
Right, because those family members are just sitting by the phone waiting with a ready photo for KTVU to call before their deadline.
The problem with African Americans is they don't have jobs. So they don't know what it's like in the Real World.
It always comes down to the age-old question... "Does the news media have a inherent responsibility to be as fair and objective as possible to its viewers?" I don't think KTVU exercised "fair and responsible" in the posting of this picture. KTVU could have used a different picture. This pic is sensational and provocative.
ReplyDelete> "Does the news media have a inherent responsibility to
Delete> be as fair and objective as possible to its viewers?"
Funny, been in the business all my life and never heard this question specifically voiced. And it's "An inherent responsibility."
> I don't think KTVU exercised "fair and responsible"
> in the posting of this picture.
Why do you think anyone cares what you think?
> KTVU could have used a different picture. This pic is
> sensational and provocative.
Why'd she post it then? To be sensational and provocative perhaps? She surely had more time to think about posting it in the first place than they probably did in scrambling for an image for the noon show.
I get it- when it is someone else's ass that is on the line, they couldn't care less. But when it is their own ass, oh, that's a different story. Typical corporate turd. It's all about me, baby. And piss on everyone else.
ReplyDeleteThese days, when someone makes the news, the natural thing is to try to pull a pic from their Facebook account. The UK's Daily Mail website is a master of this.
ReplyDeleteWas the gunphone grip pic the only one on her Facebook page? I just googled "Nia Wilson" images, to find dozens.