KRON hates me.
Seriously, I mean, when you're the ONLY media entity that covers an on-going story and is infinitely ACCURATE, you could be bound to being censored by some of the affiliates you write for; KRON's cast of sordid upper-brass pencilheads managed to remove some of my content from the domain. There's no need to mention the company, (yet) because they're not part of the story.
And believe me, there's a story here and it's on-going. Never mind salacious accounts of upper news management personnel behaving badly at the expense of news staff who coincidentally don't get cushy assignments. That's a story that isn't too much uncommon in the workplace everywhere, only this place there's a helluva lot more. We'll save that, if necessary, for a future date, because if they only know what I really know, hell, we're talking 'Woodward and Bernstein' time...
See, KRON and Young have a convenient excuse about how they turned a once-proud TV station into the visual cesspool it has become. They can blame it on the economy. They can spiel about losing NBC, blah-blah-blah...
Truth is, as I pointed out here, (check the archives) KRON's current financial quagmire and its utter incompetence is all the fault of, well, KRON, and Young too.
The truth hurts, eh boys and girls? So, what to do? Call the outlets and censor me. Yeah, as if word hasn't got out already. You can't silence every frickin' person in that building on 1001 Van Ness you're trying to pawn! You can't! They know. They know about the morning personality. You know who I'm referring to; and by the way, it isn't anybody or anything that comes my way solicited. I don't go out looking for crap. It usually ends up in my e-mail box and lately, I'm getting more than I've ever imagined.
I won't go into the details now; again, it ain't about THAT. Its about how you a-holes in the offices with the blinds shut and the curtains drawn, with your a-grade egos run amok. Most of the staff hates you. They do. The fact that they are able to churn out decent work and do the best they can under the most dire of conditions is a testament to their dedication. Yeah, they deliver IN SPITE of you, not because of you. You should hear what they say about you guys. You really should. Maybe one day, when you're not busy with the interns, and after one of your nightly forays, you might want to toss out a questionnaire, anonymously, where they might tell you a few things, but that's wasting time. You guys never listen.
So keep doing what you're doing. I can't get enough of this. And believe me when I tell you that the more you try to censor, the better off I am. Modesty aside, people know what's going on. They read me. I have NO agenda against you tomato cans. I have never worked there, nor applied. I don't think you can afford me anyway, but that's another story.
The only agenda I have is covering the business. And I comment too when and if the situation merits. Nobody's immune from my compliments nor my criticism. I'm not beholden to anyone, any organization. I take this job seriously. My advertisers are independent and not broadcast-related. I'm one of the few media bloggers that pains to get it right. And I've been right about 99% of the time when it comes to KRON. Tell that to your 509 weather girls and on-air interns!
And remember, ultimately, everything will come out. It will. Enjoy the meatball sandwich at Tommys Joynt.
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