East Bay Times Reporter Pimps Bay Area News Group Subscription While Covering Carr Fire

Eastbay Times reporter, Alison Berg, did a little selling for her newspaper.

Hey, I know when I'm covering mass destruction, mayhem--seventh worst fire in CA history, the first thing I do is think about selling the old newspaper.

If this wasn't so serious it would be funny. Like seriously funny, giddy, OMFG! funny.

I'll hope Berg was instructed by some insensitive middle manager nitwit who has no concept of what is right and what is clearly wrong. It not only defaces the newspaper which is crappy already, it also makes Alison Berg look like a complete moron.

Can you imagine the people who lost loved ones in this ongoing tragedy? Think what their reaction would be if they saw this bullshit? Pathetic. 

Berg needs to get a reality check soon. Here's her e-mail address if you have any reaction: 

• aberg@bayareanewsgroup.com
 

Carr Fire Gets Full Coverage by Bay Area TV News; Dangerous Assignments; Props to KGO-TV and Laura Anthony

THE Carr Fire gets more intense and tragic by the minute; all the Bay Area TV News stations continue to provide full coverage with a host of live trucks and reporters covering the continuing devastation in Redding and Shasta County.

I want to give kudos to KGO (ABC7) Reporter, Laura Anthony, for some first-rate coverage from the scene of the destruction.

It's particularly hard to cover and the environment and obstacles are plenty.

Here's some video and pictures courtesy ABC7.

* I WANT to emphasize the degree and difficulty in covering these massive wildfires. I've never been on the front line of one of these disasters but I was witness to and experienced the Oakland Hills inferno in 1991; at the time, the worst firestorm to hit an urban area ever in terms of loss of life and property damage and destruction. The North Bay Fires last October eclipsed that.

*To get to the scene and provide dramatic video, reporters and photographers --still images and video cameramen often have to venture out into dangerous terrain --they are of course, restricted by the fire people but they still operate under intermittent hazardous environment and have to be extremely careful.

It's not the most choice assignment but someone has to do it.