Scotus Draft Opinion to Overturn Roe v Wade -Abortion Decision Gets Poor Local Coverage/Insight; TV News Inadequate; KGO/KCBS Asleep at Wheel; Tuesday Open

THE BIG NEWS on the political front--and it is BIG news, is the leak of a Supreme Court draft decision to overturn Roe v Wade, outlawing a woman's right to an abortion. It was a huge story and it dominated both the national and local headlines, as it should.

Politico broke the story.

The lack of professional insight on such a lethal story and its impact was evident early on; the Bay Area TV/Radio crowd was late to the show (as usual) and when it finally got around to reporting the news out of Washington, all the analysis was pretty poor and not very thorough.

First off, it was a leaked story, most likely. Did any of our local media members explore that element? Of course not. And even as this Chief Justice spoke out.

And mostly all went roughshod into the right-left abortion debate instead of exploring the entire issue and its effect on the mid-term election in November.

KCBS's not-ready for primetime morning drive morons--the amateur duo of Holly Quan and Jason Brooks--was on full display. Both had an interview with Congresswoman, Jackie Speier, who fielded benign questions without any insight and then some.

Quan and Brooks could have asked Speier about the SCOTUS opinion being a referendum on the Nov. midterm election but of course that would have required basic thought process--Quan is limited there and Brooks is a total lightweight fool.

KGO Radio and wildly incompetent morning yahoo, Nicki Medoro, took the usual, predictable, rant on abortion rights (all legit) but failed to address all the political particulars, including the court's leak and what the ramifications might be down the road.

I found it laughable that they opened the 8 AM hour fielding calls --three of them, from White male older guys who went into the usual partisan babble--they all oppose abortion rights. Of course Medoro didn't see the irony. Where's some womwn callers, KGO? Good producing. Not.

ON THE TV front, KTVU tried its best to inject some local angle, with an interview with a legal professor from Hastings but it was banal and uninteresting and didn't add anything to the news.

KRON and KPIX just stuck to its national, network reporters and left the entire matter alone. That may have been the wisest choice.

In prior days, a story as huge as this would have garnered knowledgeable insight and analysis from the local SF press --with a thorough series of interviews and reaction from both sides.

Moreover, the leaked element of the story would have allowed for whether all of this was intentional --and if so, what that means. We won't know because none of it was explored and none of it most likely won't be discussed.

Sad.