Sea of Non-Tranquility at KCBS; Paranoia Rules The Newsroom; PD Seelig Mutes (Or Tries To) Staff; "Crazy" Feeling at 855 Battery, Home of "The Shit Show"

AT KCBS, paranoia rules the day. It's both toxic and dangerous, especially to a younger staff, (and tenured too) who demand and expect clarity.

You would think there'd be a newsroom chock full of optimism and relative calm, joy and happiness. Wrongo!

The news boss, Jennifer Seelig, put out a directive that her amen corner, (including a recent KGO hire) not dare talk to me and that there'd be "consequences" if that policy were comprimised.

Only Seelig did all that in her own secret manner with meetings and texts that I was on her shit list and even a whiff of me on a phone or computer was tantamount to self purgatory. It's fine because the boss doesn't want her pupils to go rogue with a critical blogger who is very aware of the inner sanctum of the "shit show" at 855 Battery. Only Seelig went about it the wrong way, of course she did because she's a LOUSY manager.

Jen, it's not me that is there ripping your neanderthal ways, it is YOU and you only. Your troops, even your amen corner loyalists, are more disgusted and as PISSED OFF as ever.

They know the recent ratings were awry; you killed in the beauty contest numbers but your CUME is the shits, about half of what it was only a few years ago--1.2M to now HALF of that and that your only salvation from the KGO collapse was a modest TSL (time spent listning) uptick, big deal.

Beyond all that, Jen, you have a staff that is teetering on total NO CONFIDENCE in your crappy direction and wholesale ability to maintain utter incompetence and managerial malpractice. It's on your watch that KCBS has become a local joke and that your whack-a-mole anchor policy and hiring dim bulb reporters is the main topic in the newsroom. I didn'do any of that, Jen, YOU DID!

So now, cool, go ahead and try to MUTE the few remaining pupils, that only makes it worse and intensifies the atmosphere which is borderline putrid now. You have KGO retreads that worked the PM drive, a little desperate don't you think? Pat Thurston was great on Tuesday, you got lucky, but putting a mute button on her is no salient policy, it only heightens the overall paranoia.

Transparency and clarity supercede any form of mass dysfunction and you cannot mute that, Jen, you either come to grips and be open and allow the troops to spew their displeasure without the fear of retaliation in their head.

None of your demands of shh to moi will work, it'll only get worse and deeper.

Which is why, Jen, everyone in their right mind is LEAVING IN DROVES at KCBS; can't wait to split, retire, ESCAPE the building and go home to relative calm and pleasure and devoid of your inner CRAZY, Jen, you and Don Bastida, another kiss-ass gem who was born on third base and thought he hit a triple.

Hey, Jen, this is the new big hit at KCBS.