Election Coverage National Centric For Me; KCBS Just Plain Amateur Hour; Clancy-Finch Doo Doo; Culross-Thomas Yawn in AM Drive; Rollin Post/KRON Plug; Chronicle Sports Writers Factoid; Silver Still a Jerk But $ Good; Killion-Ostler Peeved; Starkey's Termites $peil? Yikes!; Wednesday Media Pulse

WEDNESDAY PULSE...

TRY AS I MIGHT, I begged off watching in detail local coverage of the election. I pretty much channel-surfed CNN, Fox News, CBS and MsNBC. I wanted to see trends and analysis and I knew I wasn't gonna get that on local TV and radio.

I tried to listen to KCBS --political reporter, Doug Sovern, was fairly decent but that was about it. KCBS tried to play analysis game but seriously, when you place Alisa Clancy and Peter Finch into the mix during the night when returns are coming in, you LOSE me.

What a joke. KCBS is just plain rubbish now with dorky, mediocre reporters who offer nothing and so-called anchors who have no political repertoire whatsoever. If KCBS were smart, they'd have had Larry Gerston (the politics professor and NBC analyst) on the air throughout and not some feeble morons acting as reporters.

Clancy is a mess--her giggly act is cringe-worthy and Finch with his irritating "degrees" verbal assault is instant dial vacate.

*I MISS Rollin Post --he used to be old KRON's great political analyst and his analysis was so detailed and worthy.

*While the national networks and cablers and pundits were calling the election results an "anti-Trump" move by the voters (it was), KCBS stuck to doing ad-nauseum minutes on the San Jose mayoral race. Like on and on and on...they gave scant attention to the Oakland mayoral race and they basically ran rerun stories about the ballot propositions when it was clear most f them went down to defeat.

KCBS made a big deal about predicting Gavin Newsom's reelection --how insightful.

*The Melissa Culross--Eric Thomas anchor pairing is simply dreck-personified. It's a NO PERSONALITY, robotic, benign, antiseptic hodgepodge of DEAD AIR and it stinks! The only reason why KCBS uses Culross and Thomas is to, well, you know, be PC and check all the boxes. That's it.

Culross has NO personality and in morning drive, you need one. She's also a terrible interviewer. She lacks the drive to ask basic, insightful questions and instead just relies on garden-variety queries--worse, she lets guests drone on and on and on, like she did this morning with Congresswoman Barbara Lee. It was truly amateur hour.

Thomas adds ZERO and is a complete nothing and adds nothing.

*KQED Radio is obviously a hit with the Berkeley/wine/alfalfa crowd but it's pretty much boring and white bread.

*If today you didn't know the Chronicle sports writers not named Michael Silver, were angry and royally pissed off, you know now.

*Silver is making close to $300G and everyone else was asked to take BUYOUT OFFERS from Hearst. So the next time you read the sports, imagine.

*Ann Killion and Scott Ostler alike are FUMING--they're having to do on a measly $200K.

*Killion doesn't do San Francisco sports-talk shows because she wants to get paid --nothing wrong there, only Killion's "ya-knows" on radio are killer and why nobody wants her on the air let alone, paying her.

*Silver, (pictured) were he not such a contrived, egotistical jerk, would be a far more compelling NFL writer for the Chron, but that's life.

*Joe Starkey's termite ads are funny enough but when you ad in his $50G he gets over the year, that's not so funny, that's, YIKES!, pretty damn good dough.