Insiders? Really more fan boys.
How do these clowns get away with it? And why does KNBR continue to put them on air when the only "story" they break is their sandwich recipes.
*Jennifer Seelig is the alleged ND at KCBS and in charge of manning the ship and making sure the operation is a go at the all-news station --in reality, Seelig couldn't lead an eskimo to an Alaskan ice show in winter time and her fraud co-partner, Don Bastida, has all the gravitas of a San Bruno strip mall.
The blind leading the blind.
*Garoppolo will make about $7M bucks this year and I'm supposed to feel sorry for him? Once again, the toy dept. guys in the press box don't have a clue about real life.
*Speaking of the toy dept., inside the Giants' press box today, Susan Slusser and Andy (Baggs) Baggarly --from the SF Chron and Athletic--but in reality, members of the booster club and Larry Baer's propaganda agents and they do just an awesome job.
HOLD ON, I'm just gettig started.
*The idea of SFGate as a news operation --even in its click-bait iteration --is sort of like Mel Gibson playing a rabbi in a Tel Aviv love story.
*We take you to Oracle Park and an announcement from the box, "Attention Press, please have a courtesy hot dog for lunch before Ray Ratto enters the premises."
*KNBR's Adam "Copes" Copeland got the job largely because Cumulus wanted to placate daddy Copeland (Brian) so he wouldn't file another lawsuit. Advantage, HA-HA, Adam, Ha-Ha-Ha, Ha -Ha!.
*Greg Papa is to Bill King is what Idi Amin is to Golda Meir.
*Excuse me, Julie Haener and Pam Cook, KTVU news readers:
*THIS JUST IN: KPIX has hired a former first sargent, Gwendolyn Yentska, from the Mare Island Shipwards to do traffic on the Nooner.
*If Dan Ashley is so uncomfortable wih his salary situation being newsy, he'd have sold luxury cars at the Walnut Creek Porsche dealer.
*ABC7's Reggie Aqui is taking a stab at independent journalism: he auditioned for Al Jazzera's Kyiv bureau.
*KGO Radio's John Rothmann spends so much time at the studio, his wife, Ellen, has to make conjugal visits to the Cumulus cluster on Battery.
*Rothmann had a busy week dialing up good friends, Richard Nixon, Abe Lincoln, Dwight D Eisenhour, FDR, Maggie Thatcher, and Spiro Agnew, he had little time for Jan Wahl.
*Actually, Rothmann was plain, "astounded" and "outraged" over Wahl's omission, he began humming old Judy Garland tunes.
*John Lund's (KNBR) wife made him sign a pre-nup because even she is not that brain-dead.
*And Lund agreed to the news, "like you said, honey..."
*Greg Papa said it himself that he's got all these jobs so he can pay off all these ex-wives, kids, hanger-ons and various Danville bar owners, "TOUCHDOOOOOODOWNN!, lawyers!"
*Comcast to Papa: we thought we had problems --we promise not to invite you to our Laura Britt seminar at the Dublin Hilton.
*KTVU's Milt Kahn, sort of: Mike Mibach.
*THIS JUST IN: Tim Kawakami just BLOCKED his good friend, George Takei, on Twitter, for too many Warriors posts. Oh My!
*If you have a spare 50 cents you can buy KGO Radio.
*Copes' hyena laughs and Mark Thompson's girly giggles: Cumulus' 2-for-1 speciality.
Papa & Lund have huge egg on their face from "guaranteeing" Jimmy G was as good as gone. Doom on you weaklings. You guys were.... surprise.... WRONG!
ReplyDeleteI stopped watching ktvu when they started running those strange Billy Graham religious commercials every commercial break. Haven’t looked back.
ReplyDeleteI’ve noticed those too. They seem to air them at least once an hour. No other Bay Area station seems to be airing them at all. Tells you all you need to know about KTVU’s ratings and how desperate they are for advertisers.
DeleteWell then your soul will not be saved when Jeey-zuz returns!
DeleteI like those commercials. Billy Graham was the most honest Christian minister ever and if he has a nice message for everyone, great. And if he is right about Jesus, God really loves people.
Delete“Billy Graham was the most honest Christian minister ever and if he has a nice message for everyone…”
DeleteYou mean that guy who defended Nixon?
KNBR has devolved into nothing more than a bunch of over-the-hill dorks who love to hear themselves talk. What makes matters even worse is they talk as though they’re 20 year old frat boys or some super cool jock boys. It’s more embarrassing than anything else. Grow up!
ReplyDelete> KNBR has devolved into nothing more than
Delete> a bunch of over-the-hill dorks who love to
> hear themselves talk.
As opposed to...Fox? CNN? MSNBC?
Right, because Wolf Blitzer, Chris Wallace, and Neil Kavuto are the posterboys of wannabe 20 year old frat jocks.
DeleteYou must be new here. National guys almost always break stuff before local guys. NFL, NHL, whatever. And it's the outlet they work for that has dubbed them "insiders" because it sounded cooler than "beat reporter".
ReplyDeleteSo you’ve basically corroborated Rich’s point. There’s nothing preventing a local reporter from getting information and breaking it. In theory it SHOULD be the local guys since they’re essentially embedded with teams, paid to cover them, and should have the deep relationships. But it’s always the national outlets because local guys are too because being cheerleaders and propagandists.
DeleteI did not corroborate Rich’s point. The national guys get the news first because they've done all the work and have made all the connections. An agent or player isn't going to tip off a local when they want it to be big... so they tip off the ones with the national cred. This is not new.
Delete@6:14, I’m afraid I have to agree with 1:07. I read your initial comment and then read the 1:07 one. I had the same thought. You basically made Rich’s point but came at it from a different perspective.
DeleteRich, did you find Susan Slusser to be a shill for ownership when she covered the A's? And while you're slamming the KNBR "insiders" (I agree that term is a bit absurd), many of those don't only talk on KNBR but also on 95.7. Do you also think the pontificators on The Game blew it on the Jimmy G story?
ReplyDeleteSusan Slusser is a gossip writter..I think Billy Beane would give her half truth stories for her to write and then see what kind of reaction it got..
Delete2:16, Bingo. I agree completely.
DeleteYep big time gossip writer! Another person who never played baseball or softball but claims to be super knowledgeable about the game. Who pays her?
DeleteLooking at some of the recent posts and comments critical of Jessica Burch, it appears that she responds to these comments using the ubiquitous ‘anonymous’ moniker. There are some dead giveaways that I won’t share publicly but what will I say to you Jessica (since I know you read this site) is you need to develop a thick skin. Quickly.
ReplyDeleteI’ve worked in the industry most of my life and have seen many people come and many more go. I’ve seen people succeed and many more fall flat on their face or just fizzle out.
One thing that those who last have in common is they all have a thick skin. They’re self-assured and don’t give two shits about the opinions that keyboard quarterbacks share on the internet. They’re focused on themselves and what they’ve got going on.
Remember, this a small industry and people talk. Once you develop a reputation it’s damn near impossible to overcome that. I don’t work at KPIX but I’m starting to hear ‘word on the street’ about you amongst industry colleagues.
Remember, thick skin.
As much as most of us hate the LT thing, I bet this is station management or a consultant's idea not hers. She is young and made a big step up to this market from Redding.
DeleteWhen I was her age I was not strong enough to stand up to management about really bad ideas.
Stop obsessing with my skin!
DeleteWhat you’re describing is common with younger anchors, especially females. She probably especially insecure that she’s not a meteorologist. Not that one has to be to point at numbers, but to have no weather chops I’m sure doesn’t help.
DeleteLet’s see how long it takes for her to respond here lol
Delete1:36, LOL!!!
DeleteLove her excitement and smiley attitude.
DeleteShe is a meteorologist and has a bachelor’s degree in meteorology. Embry-Riddle University. Simple LinkedIn search.
DeleteWith that said, she needs to go back to Redding and learn her craft.
Bleep all you posters! I'm... err... the LT is great! Especially when I'm.... umm.... she is on KCBS doing the weather. I don't need tough skin. = ) LOL
Delete@5:21, you hit the nail on the head. Burch is green. Say what you want about quality of bay area media but it's still a major market. I believe she got called up to the major leagues a bit too soon. I agree that she would benefit from being sent back to AAA. Now that she's had a taste of the big leagues hopefully a trip back to a smaller market will motivate her to hone her craft, as a 5:17 aptly stated. I think she has potential though.
DeleteKawakami is an insecure, overly-sensitive baby. Spend 10 minutes on espn.com and you’ll already have more sports knowledge than he does.
ReplyDeleteMore like a pompous ass, know-nothing who thinks people actually give a shit about what he says.
DeleteHey Tim! You're terrible and I know more about sports then you. Clown with a pen who thinks he can "write".
DeleteSF Gate should rebrand as "The Bay Area Restaurant Review"
ReplyDeleteThat, or "The Wannabe Instagram Influencer Daily Blather"
Delete"SF Gate: The Bay Area's premiere clickbait gossip rag"
DeleteThe 49er Insiders dont know anything that Shanahan or his minions dont tell them
ReplyDeleteGee, Rich ... It seems there's not one station in town worth a damn. You're almost out of business. I hope you haven't burned all your bridges 'cause you're a must read and we love ya too much.
ReplyDelete> If Dan Ashley is so uncomfortable wih his
ReplyDelete> salary situation being newsy, he'd have
> sold luxury cars at the Walnut Creek
> Porsche dealer.
He can't. Frank Somerville is doing that.
Frank does some crash testing for them.
DeleteState radio on knbr. Fake Giants happy news!
ReplyDeleteKNBR: They’re only 10 games back with a few weeks to go…they can do it!
DeleteIf you believe Carmen Kiew you'd think the Giants are on the brink of winning another World Series.
DeleteOne hot streak from making the playoffs and thus winning the WS.
DeleteCarmen Kiew & Marty Lurie speak the truth. Don't you know? Marty has said all year long "This team is much better than their record indicates." Nonsense! Ballpark will be mighty empty in September when we all turn our attention to the NFL. Because the Mighty Giants... have struck out!
DeleteWhen the Gigantes have been mathematically eliminated Carmen will still be on tv saying she believes in them and still has hope.
DeleteCarmen Kiev approves of this rant
ReplyDeleteI’m still traumatized by the time Carmen Keuw kept going on and on about her pooping habits and threatened to do a future broadcast sitting on the throne. No gurl, we don’t need to know you spent 2 hours on the toilet all thanks to your fancy homemade nachos.
DeleteCan Carmen please go away and go back to tech where her collegues call her "CARTMAN" and report her to HR for throwing lipsticks at people who mock her. LOSER! Knows nothing about sports.
DeleteCarmen Kiew is the MAN!!!
DeleteNo Carmen... You aren't. But can you tell us what a woman is?
DeleteToday a noisy, obnoxious, and likely Drunk G Papa was talking over guests, making dumb comments, and relishing the sound of his own voice. Apparently he was emulating Brian “Loudmouth” Murphy, who won’t let anyone finish a sentence. One could hear Lund diffusing the situation, while Marty Lurie (a real baseball fan) waited until Pappa shut the hell up.
ReplyDeleteIt is a shame that KNBR allows these troglodytes to babble ad nauseum. Slurp n Smack, Poop n Lump, Giddy n Bert, FP - if they are your representatives and the best you can field, just shut it down !! The airwaves are intended to educate and elevate the population, not intended to lower discourse down to the lowest common denominator. Were I any one of these hosts (Save ML and BL), I would be embarrassed to draw a paycheck for such lame spectacle. These CLOWNS are the best the Bay Area can give us???? The Horror, the horror.
I quickly skimmed your comment and noticed “I would be embarrassed to draw a paycheck for such lame spectacle.”
DeleteI assumed your comment was about 95% of the on air ktvu stuff.
Drunk G Papa "Bear" will be in downtown Danville later at the bars, drinking like a fish, coming on to the ladies and making himself look like an ass Would Lon Simmons, Wayne Walker, or Ted Robinson behave like this? C'mon Niners! Do something.... "TOUCHHHHHHDOWN AL...COHOL...ISM!"
Delete@5:40, and i can assure you most women scatter when they see Mr. Creepy Guy enter the bars.
DeleteDoes Papa still do that annoying thing where he parks in handicap zones? I know for a while there he was known to park his Maserati in blue zones.
Delete(Sorry old ladies with hip issues and disabled veterans, you’re gonna have to park two blocks away and walk. Greg “Douchebag” Papa needs to get to the bars pronto … he has some beers to drink!)
@7:08pm Yeah he has a "reputation" over here in the TriValley/San Ramon, Danville & Walnut Creek area. He definitely likes to throw them back. Ladies if you see Mr Creepy lurking around downtown Danville, steer clear and cross the street.
DeletePapa has made it abundantly clear that the entire world and everyone in it revolves around him. So why would anyone be surprised that he parks/parked in handicap zones with zero regard for people who actually need them?
DeleteWhen was the last time Tom Vacar smiled, if ever? He always looks miserable.
ReplyDeleteI’ve been watching ktvu for three decades. I’ve never once seen him smile.
DeleteHoly Cow! What a post by Dickie Lieberman. On point. On target. All of it. Yes, the truth hurts. It just goes to show how much the Bay Area media SUCKS.
ReplyDeleteI want to be crystal clear. You understand that. Don’t confuse people with the facts. I want to know what you think. This is astounding.
ReplyDeleteLiked your Papa-to-King comparison. Best one I ever heard was "as Tiny Tim is to Pavarotti." Would have fit here too.
ReplyDeleteI watched Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons on PBS last weekend. His voice was still amazing. Couldn't get "Dawn" earworm out of my head.
ReplyDeleteThe collective media is nothing more than a giant pinata in need of a Louisville Slugger.
ReplyDeleteYou do know Frankie Valli has been lip-syncing for years, right? The reviews after live shows from those close to the stage are pretty telling.
ReplyDelete40 plus years of either working or commenting on Bay Area media gives Rich an edge. Yea, he’s a gossip and annoying at times and many of his criticisms are repetitive and excessive. But he’s got a great sense of humor and is constantly breaking important local news about radio and TV. Virtually everyone I know in the media figuratively recoils when I mention his blog, but with rare exception, they all read it. Guilty pleasure? Hey, we all need some of that with the nonsense that is going on in the real world. Keep it up Rich!
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