CNN anchors: where are they now?

[Bob in Jersey]

With CNN marking their 25th anny this week, there were a few of
their on-air people I was wondering about:

-- Dave Walker and Lois Hart, their first anchor team

-- Chris(tine) Curle and Don Farmer

-- the two guys who co-anchored with Mary Alice Williams in the late
afternoons



--
BOB

[Joe Coughlin]

Dave and Lois are married and co-anchor the daily evening news on KCRA-3 Sacramento.

Chris and Don are also married and live in Florida. She hosts health and medical video programs for the National Educational Video Co.,. He writes a column for the Naples Daily News.

To be honest, I had no idea who these people were (well, except Mary Alice Williams, but I knew her from seeing her on NBC).

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Happy Accidents     http://happyaccident.blogspot.com

[televisiongirl]

On 6/2/05, Bob in Jersey <bob.in...@juno.com> wrote:
>
>

> With CNN marking their 25th anny this week, there were a few of
> their on-air people I was wondering about:
>
> -- Dave Walker and Lois Hart, their first anchor team

Dave Walker and Lois Hart are together (and married) in Sacramento:

http://www.thekcrachannel.com/kcratv/293304/detail.html
http://www.thekcrachannel.com/kcratv/293308/detail.html

> -- Chris(tine) Curle and Don Farmer

Chris Curle is hosting a program called "Health Sense:"

http://www.wgcu.org/health_sense/host.html

Don Farmer had a column for The Naples Daily News.


I don't know who worked with Mary Alice Williams in the afternoons but
she's doing afternoon drivetime radio on WCBS-AM in New York.


TVG

[Bob in Jersey]

Here's a blog which (at least as of Dec'04) was trying to compile a
database of ex-CNNers:

http://whatshappeningatcnn.blogspot.com/

On that day they caught up with original CNN2/Headline News'er David
Goodnow, who lasted there until the Iraq War:

"Now retired from the anchor desk, David is busier than ever as an
on-camera host, public relations consultant, voice-over artist,
public speaker, church media consultant and writer."

And on the main page (surprised no one tickered this) they note that
Atlanta accidentally killed another Watergate figure, Howard Hunt...

The other people I might have been thinking of were Bill Zimmerman
(who sorta half-looked like Jim Lehrer) and Bernie Shaw, so cut my
original request in half...I'd forgotten that Bernie started out in
afternoons before getting promoted to primetime. (I'll thank that
guy whose video from day one at Techwood is reffed on ticker...)



--
BOB

[Bob in Jersey]

While watching part of the anniversary coverage on either 360 or
Paula, there was a piece on Ted Himself which included an original
song (from early in his history, apparently) about him. Who was
the singer?



--
BOB

[Steve Timko]

For a while it seemed like Salt Lake City was a farm team for CNN.
Anyone know why so many Utah anchors went to CNN in the beginning?

On 6/2/05, Bob in Jersey <bob.in...@juno.com> wrote:
>
>

[PGage]

Joe wrote...

Dave and Lois are married and co-anchor the daily evening news on
KCRA-3 Sacramento.

PGage writes...
I used to watch the KCRA newscast regularly in the days when I was
still able to get over-the-air signal from Sacramento (I used to know
one of their reporters). I did not know that Dave and Lois had been
the first anchors on CNN. I (and I presume, all others who watched
them) knew that Dave was a dope, and Lois often wore a look that said
"I can't believe I'm married to this guy".

I am mildly surprised to hear they are both still on air in Sacramento.

[Mark Roberts]

On 6/3/05, PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am mildly surprised to hear they are both still on air in Sacramento.

KCRA is successful, respected, and stable. Why should this be such a surprise.

It will be interesting to see if KOVR, under CBS ownership, actually
makes the investment to be competitive - which Sinclair never would
do.

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[PGage]

PGage wrote...

I am mildly surprised to hear they are both still on air in Sacramento.

Mark wrote...

KCRA is successful, respected, and stable. Why should this be such a surprise.

PGage writes...
I am not surprised KCRA is on the air - as I noted, as long as I was
able to get their signal, they were my 11:00 PM newscast of choice.
But I always found the Dave and Lois show to be a joke, and would have
thought that in the last couple of years KCRA could have done better.

[Mark Roberts]

Rare is the teevee station that, being successful for a long string of
years, wouldn't see its primary anchor team as one of the drivers of
that success.

The Ten O'Clock News on KTVU (Oakland-San Francisco) is another
example. Recently, it's seemed as though the primary anchor team of
Dennis Richmond and Leslie Griffith have been "phoning it in" on some
nights. Richmond is as solid as ever, but seems to be tired; while
Griffith is saying goofy things and making comments that are out of
place for KTVU's no-nonsense reputation. That goofiness and
inappropriateness was highlighted this past week when morning anchor
Frank Somerville, who's very much in the KTVU no-nonsense mold, was
substituting for Richmond. Seeing a new face in that time period, but
one who's just as much of the old KTVU tradition as Richmond, pointed
out to me that -- I think -- Griffith is one of the problems with that
newscast. The other problems are a sharply increased story count, too
much Murder of the Day, and the still-lamented departure of one of the
classiest feature reporters around, George Watson.

It could just be that anchor teams have a lifespan but, in all but the
rarest cases, eventually overstay their welcome. But the newscasts one
watches, and the anchor teams one relates to, often seem to be a
matter of habit, and so the band plays on, the ratings look good, the
ads get sold, and why change...especially when whatever changes there
have been in recent years (KRON's losing its NBC affiliation; KTVU's
having way more bleeds-it-leads stories than it once did; Diane
Dwyer's leaving for the peripheral anonymity of KNTV; KPIX's
incredibly annoying lineup of meteorologists; the destruction of
BayTV) have usually been for the worse.

About the only good changes I can think of in recent times have been
KPIX's move of Hank Plante away from the anchor desk and into a
"political editor" role, where he's doing well; and KRON's
weird-but-true pairing of former SF mayor Willie Brown and Chronicle
political gossip columnist Phil Matier on Sunday night's "Off the
Record" (with even weirder things such as the night Bill Cosby sat
just off-camera and said almost nothing during the entire half-hour).

##

[PGage]

Mark wrote..

The Ten O'Clock News on KTVU (Oakland-San Francisco) is another
example. Recently, it's seemed as though the primary anchor team of
Dennis Richmond and Leslie Griffith have been "phoning it in" on some
nights. Richmond is as solid as ever, but seems to be tired; while
Griffith is saying goofy things and making comments that are out of
place for KTVU's no-nonsense reputation. That goofiness and
inappropriateness was highlighted this past week when morning anchor
Frank Somerville, who's very much in the KTVU no-nonsense mold, was
substituting for Richmond. Seeing a new face in that time period, but
one who's just as much of the old KTVU tradition as Richmond, pointed
out to me that -- I think -- Griffith is one of the problems with that
newscast. The other problems are a sharply increased story count, too
much Murder of the Day, and the still-lamented departure of one of the
classiest feature reporters around, George Watson.

PGage writes...
Griffith seems like one of those "Peter Principle" illustrations; I
really liked her when she was reporting from the field (I hope it
wasn't just because she adopted a more "cutesy pie" style in those
days) but have never really liked her work as an anchor. Does Richmond
have the Cronkite/Rather "Managing Editor" role at KTVU? I have not
been digging the whole show as much as I used to. I don't mind a
little lightness with my news (and I actually like Weather Guy Bill
Martin doing his shtick on KNBR), but the days are just about gone
when you could count a solid newscast every night on CH 2.

[Kevin Marousek, RPCV]

Does anyone know the whereabouts of Charles Jaco (sp?), the CNN field
reporter during the first War In The Gulf (while Bernie Shaw and his
posse were crouched under desks in hotel baements)? I know NBC's
Arthur Kent stole the show, but Jaco seemed more real and his reports
more informative. I seem to recall he had cancer or some sort of
disease he was fighting a few years ago, but I don't recall hearing
the outcome or where he is today.
--
Kevin Marousek, RPCV
maro...@gmail.com
http://groups.msn.com/KevinsPicPalace
http://cindycrawford.blogspot.com
http://thisiswhoweare.blogspot.com
http://360.yahoo.com/kevinm...@sbcglobal.net

[Bob in Jersey]

On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 19:04:46 pdt, "Kevin Marousek, RPCV" wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the whereabouts of Charles Jaco (sp?), the CNN
> field reporter during the first War In The Gulf (while Bernie Shaw
> and his posse were crouched under desks in hotel baements)? I know
> NBC's Arthur Kent stole the show, but Jaco seemed more real and
> his reports more informative. I seem to recall he had cancer or
> some sort of disease he was fighting a few years ago, but I don't
> recall hearing the outcome or where he is today.

Jaco is in St Louis, where he writes novels, has a show on KMOX
radio (before Paul Harris'), and has a website
(www.charlesjaco.com). He can be retained for public speeches
through Capital Speakers Inc. in Warshington.



--
BOB

[Bob in Jersey]

UPDATE to my earlier post:

Jaco WAS with KMOX, according to a 2003 article I just found at
the St Louis Business Journal. It said he went to KFTK, but when
I checked their site he wasn't there, either. (Sorry...)



--
BOB

[bradford]

FWIW he used to be one of the news people on Chicago's WXRT-FM
way way back when I used to live there (we're talking early 70s) and went
by his first initials (I think it was "C.D. Jaco") back when there were
radio
stations that played good music AND did good news reporting.

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[Steve Timko]

Weekends have gone to crap. I don't notice is as much on week nights,
but that's usually because I only tune in to make sure the president
hasn't been assassinated or something and then I turne it off and go
to sleep.
Dennis Richmond is one of the few who has that voice of God presence
about him. I'd still nominate him to take over Rather's job. Griffith
has finally straightened out the eye thing -- I think one of them is
fake -- but she still has this tendency to sometimes do these deep
inhales that make it hard to listen to her. Maybe I'm picking nits.
Any chance they could lure Diane Dwyer back?

[dsi...@yahoo.com]

Steve Timko wrote:

> Dennis Richmond is one of the few who has that voice of God presence
> about him. I'd still nominate him to take over Rather's job.

I rarely watch KTVU, but am inclined to like Richmond. He always seems,
though, to be scowling and disapproving of the stories he's telling us
about.

And don't get me started on the KPIX weatherpeople - or the
sportscasters. Why doesn't the Bay Area have one decent sports
reporter?

--Dave Sikula

[Jeffries, Mark]

> And don't get me started on the KPIX weatherpeople - or the
> sportscasters. Why doesn't the Bay Area have one decent
> sports reporter?

Two words are all I need to know--Roberta Gonzales.

And oh my God, she's blogging:

http://www2.cbs5.com/roberta/

Are there really people in the Bay Area who actually *like* this big
phony?

Mark Jeffries

[brad...@dwx.com]

As soon as they get a decent sports team.....

8-)

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[jbelkin]

KCRA - If you lve in the SF Bay Area and you miss the newscasts of the
upper Midwest, welcome to KCRA - all their anchors look the same - like
Bill - not quite authoritative and certainly not a pretty boy. The
women are all the same - ET's Jann Carl was all big hair, brown suit
"Midwest-anchor" sexy (unless you consider that sexy :-) but went all
Hollywood when she left for ET. At one point, they had about 5 big
haired brunettes with frosted blonde streaks who no one could tell
apart. I think part of it is they try to hire people who they think
won't leave since the SF market is only 80 miles away and SJ is a comer
...

And yea, KPIX/KCBS (radio) Roberta is annoying - she's this peppy
marathon running too-much-energy woman who still dresses like she's 24.

Is there much sports talent left anywhere in the country at local if
you're under 50? Since they know the true fans are switching to
SportsCenter or ESPN News? Hasn't everyone left for "greener" pastures
at ESPN-FOX and their 100 channels of sports - even if they're covering
log rolling (literally) and they are raw, unseasoned and think the
ticket up is out-do Stuart Scott?

[Jeffries, Mark]

> And yea, KPIX/KCBS (radio) Roberta is annoying - she's this
> peppy marathon running too-much-energy woman who still
> dresses like she's 24.

And looks like Bozo the Clown does her makeup.

As I've mentioned before, when she was in Chicago at WMAQ, she did
weather on Bob Sirott's "First Thing in the Morning," where his eyes
would be rolling some mornings at her ultra-perky act. He once actually
told her on the air to tone it down and she snapped, "I think people
want to wake up with someone cheerful in the morning." Since her Q
scores were supposedly bigger than Sirott's, she actually got him fired
from WMAQ--but he landed on his feet at WFLD with the wonderful "Fox
Thing in the Morning"--until once again he was done in an ultra-perky
woman, in this case Tamron "Look at My Boobs" Hall, who was forced by
management to be his co-anchor over his wife, Marianne Murciano. He's
now at WTTW, hosting their nightly "Chicago Tonight," but the people who
were behind him at the station are now gone and I suspect his job is in
danger--he's been attacked as a "lightweight" and "unsuitable for public
television" since the start (although the show's trademark panel
discussions on the news are still conducted by Phil Ponce, the host
before Sirott was brought in and the show expanded to an hour).

Mark Jeffries

[Jeffries, Mark]

> FWIW he used to be one of the news people on Chicago's
> WXRT-FM way way back when I used to live there (we're talking
> early 70s) and went by his first initials (I think it was
> "C.D. Jaco") back when there were radio stations that played
> good music AND did good news reporting.

And XRT was unusual for any rock station in that they did two newscasts
an hour in morning drive with no jock-newscaster byplay, plus 15 minutes
at noon, once an hour in afternoon drive and ten minutes at 6 p.m. from
when the format went 24 hours in the late 70s well into the 80s. They
also won several Illinois AP awards for their work, some years beating
out the big AM stations for best newscast. All thanks to local
ownership--when the Lee family sold the station to Westinghouse in the
mid-90s, everyone in news but one person got fired, who spent mornings
at XRT and the rest of the day at WMAQ Radio. (At that time, they
started saying at the end of the morning drive casts "for more news,
tune to WMAQ All-News 670 AM.")

Morning man Lin Brehmer still has a newsperson on his show, currently
Susan Wiencek. And she doesn't have to be in the studio all through the
show to be a human laugh track, like she did at WNND before XRT,
especially because Lin plays more music than some of the other morning
guys. But it's not the same.

Mark Jeffries

[Karla S. Robinson]

I pine for WXRT, now that I live in Northeast Ohio. Fortunately, there's a
public "quality rock" station in Akron (91.3 The Summit), which is pretty
darn good, but no XRT.

Did they do an April Fool's gag this year? And if so, what?

(Thankful that I live in Ohio now and not the radio hell that is Lexington,
Kentucky...)
Karla

[Jeffries, Mark]

> I pine for WXRT, now that I live in Northeast Ohio.
> Fortunately, there's a public "quality rock" station in Akron
> (91.3 The Summit), which is pretty darn good, but no XRT.
>
> Did they do an April Fool's gag this year? And if so, what?

They did a public radio-style pledge drive:

http://wxrt.com/lifestyle/support.html

Mark Jeffries

[brad...@dwx.com]

And you can get their signal on the internet
now that Infinity has FINALLY gotten into internet
streaming. (But they cover up the commercials with
generic "rock" music that is even worse than Muzak.)

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>

[Jeffries, Mark]

> And you can get their signal on the internet now that
> Infinity has FINALLY gotten into internet streaming. (But
> they cover up the commercials with generic "rock" music that
> is even worse than Muzak.)

And you have to be an AOL member to get XRT. I believe the other
Infinity stations on AOL include KROQ in LA and NY's Jack FM (formerly
oldies WCBS-FM, although *that* old format is being streamed by Infinity
on a general basis now).

Mark Jeffries

[Mark Roberts]

On 6/5/05, Steve Timko <steve...@gmail.com> wrote of KTVU:

>
> Weekends have gone to crap.

Yes, they have. Ken Wayne's a good reporter but just doesn't seem to
have the oomph to carry off an anchor role. It seems KTVU realized
that. So another anchor was added. Unfortunately, that anchor was Sara
Sidner. For her to read a sentence correctly, it has to be written
wrong. She came from Dallas. I can't believe she survived there.
Dallas' loss is our loss.

> Dennis Richmond is one of the few who has that voice of God presence
> about him. I'd still nominate him to take over Rather's job.

He certainly has the presence but I think his energy is flagging for
some reason.

That's one thing you can say about Dan Rather, like him or not -- his
energy definitely does not seem to be flagging and I never ever have
gotten the sense that he was detached from his job. Perhaps some of
his problems may have stemmed from his caring *too* much about the
job. When being in such a public position for so long, whether network
or local, it must be difficult to figure out the right combination of
detachment and commitment. Brokaw was the best in recent times at
achieving that balance.

> Griffith
> has finally straightened out the eye thing -- I think one of them is
> fake -- but she still has this tendency to sometimes do these deep
> inhales that make it hard to listen to her. Maybe I'm picking nits.

What I have noticed is after a particularly lachrymose story, she'll
emit a little sighing purr. I guess that's supposed to be a signal
that we should reach for the Puffs(tm).

> Any chance they could lure Diane Dwyer back?

As I understood it, part of her deal at KNTV was the ability to cut
back on hours so she could spend more time with her kids.

##

[Mark Roberts]

Not in this household. It's bad enough putting up with her
hyper-breathy cheerfulness in the morning on KCBS, which functions as
my talking clock. I have now timed my morning routine so that I am in
the shower whenever she is on. That way I can literally drown her out.

I know Ron Lyons, the former traffic/weather anchor, was well due for
retirement (49 years in broadcasting!) but why did they have to
replace him with someone like *her*?

Just a taste of how terrific Lyons was:
<http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/8346913.htm>

##

[Mark Roberts]

On 6/6/05, jbelkin <jbelk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> KCRA - If you lve in the SF Bay Area and you miss the newscasts of the
> upper Midwest, welcome to KCRA

I always thought that was KNTV's role.

> Is there much sports talent left anywhere in the country at local if
> you're under 50? Since they know the true fans are switching to
> SportsCenter or ESPN News?

I think that's why the time allocated to sportscasts is steadily
shrinking on most stations.

##

[Keith Privett]

And from Chicago, you can keep her. She was on WMAQ around the same time Jon
"Access Hollywood" Kelly had bumped better veterans from the sports desk, and
Carol Marin was quitting over shortlived editorialist Jerry Springer. They're
only now starting to recover, yet the local pre-Today show (complete with
storefront window studio) is still promoted with near bloopers of a segment on
"Meet the Fockers".

But thanks for the link if only to see the KPIX news director's blog
(http://www2.cbs5.com/newsdirector/) and this great exchange on the true IMBS
story of the season:

Finger Display (link)
Apr 14, 2005 5:55 pm

Please don't show the picture of the "Wendy's" finger again. It was awful that
this was aired. I will not be watching Channel 5 for awhile.
Kathy

We had a lot of discussion about whether to show the severed finger in the
strange continuing saga of the finger in the chili. We decided to show both it
and a finger bitten off by a wild cat so viewers could compare the two and
decide whether they were one and the same, as some allege. The first finger
picture is not particularly gruesome, and we removed unsightly aspects of the
second finger before showing it.

Appetizing? No, but essential to telling this bizarre story.

Note: We also decided to stop referring to it as the "Wendy's" finger, since it
now seems entirely possible that Wendy's had absolutely nothing to do with its
appearance, and it is unfair for the company to be continually associated with
it.




Chilli Finger Chills (link)
May 24, 2005 4:47 pm

I watch Channel 5 news almost exclusively. This evening I watched yet another
story about the incident with the finger in the chili. This one was about a
news reporter who hounded the man who lost his finger. We were shown the man
losing his temper and then your reporter explained to the viewers that you were
getting emails complaining about the story but that "we just don't understand".
Well, I think we do understand better than he realizes. In fact, I respectfully
suggest that we are all sick and tired of this story but the media hasn't yet
figured that out. Now that the mystery has been solved it's just another story
that has been beaten to death. Surely there is something more newsworthy.
Find something else to talk about, please! In fairness to you, all your
colleagues at other channels are doing the same thing, but since I watch your
show I would really love to see an end to this non-story.
Thank you. Elizabeth

Few recent stories have created as much response from viewers as the "chili
finger." Many people have written to say they're sick of it; even more,
however, want to know every new development. My view: It's certainly possible
to beat this (or any other story) to death, but when we learn, say, the
identity of the man who apparently owned the finger, it's newsworthy!
Several viewers complained that our reporter and photographer badgered this
man, who seems to have sold his severed finger for $50. However, I'm not sure
it's harassment when we ask a man for comment after he's been bragging in a bar
about being the owner of the finger in the chili. When it became clear he
didn't want to talk to us (he knocked our photographer over), we left him
alone.
As for the story, I think it's an outlandish news story, but a classic. It
hardly ranks in importance with the serious stuff of daily news: the war in
Iraq, the state of our schools, the battle over judges. But while newscasts
have a primary responsibility to report and illuminate matters of importance,
there should be room for the offbeat and unusual -- the things that astound and
amuse. There are a lot of ways to define "news," but one criterion certainly is
"what people are talking about." By that standard, the chili finger is right up
there.

[brad...@dwx.com]

You don't have to be on AOL. I haven't been on AOL for years and
I listen to WXRT from their web site at least once a week.

Just download their (free) player -- which I'm sure is some sort
of variation on Real Audio or something else I've already got. But it's
better than listening to what passes for radio here.

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[Jeffries, Mark]

> You don't have to be on AOL. I haven't been on AOL for
> years and I listen to WXRT from their web site at least once a week.

Interesting--I thought for sure that the whole idea of streaming (which
was initially done while Mel was still around) was because it was AOL
and Mel wanted the AOL money. Either I'm wrong or they modified it
after Mel left.

Mark Jeffries

[Jeffries, Mark]

> > Two words are all I need to know--Roberta Gonzales.
> >
> > And oh my God, she's blogging:
> >
> > http://www2.cbs5.com/roberta/
> >
> > Are there really people in the Bay Area who actually *like*
> this big
> > phony?
> >
> Not in this household. It's bad enough putting up with her
> hyper-breathy cheerfulness in the morning on KCBS, which
> functions as my talking clock. I have now timed my morning
> routine so that I am in the shower whenever she is on. That
> way I can literally drown her out.
>
> I know Ron Lyons, the former traffic/weather anchor, was well
> due for retirement (49 years in broadcasting!) but why did
> they have to replace him with someone like *her*?

I bet in whatever the Bay Area equivalent of Schaumburg is, there are
some soccer moms and little old ladies who just love "that cute little
Mexican girl who does the weather." And her Q scores with that audience
probably go through the roof.

Otherwise, [insert salacious accusation here].

Mark Jeffries

[KJB]

At 04:22 PM 6/7/2005, Jeffries, Mark wrote:
>I bet in whatever the Bay Area equivalent of Schaumburg is, there are
>some soccer moms and little old ladies who just love "that cute little
>Mexican girl who does the weather."

Hey, now, just what do you have against "cute little Mexican" girls?

I looked at the blog - she is kinda cute. I'll have to see if i can punch
the station up on the feed-o-matic and see her in action.


KJB

[Mark Roberts]

On 6/7/05, Keith Privett <pri...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> But thanks for the link if only to see the KPIX news director's blog
> (http://www2.cbs5.com/newsdirector/) and this great exchange on the true IMBS
> story of the season:

Thanks. I would like to call attention to this gem:

>
> We had a lot of discussion about whether to show the severed finger in the
> strange continuing saga of the finger in the chili. We decided to show both it
> and a finger bitten off by a wild cat so viewers could compare the two and
> decide whether they were one and the same, as some allege. The first finger
> picture is not particularly gruesome, and we removed unsightly aspects of the
> second finger before showing it.
>
> Appetizing? No, but essential to telling this bizarre story.

As "Cranky Viewer", I just sent in the following comment:

'About the coverage of the Anna Ayala/severed finger caper, you wrote:
"We had a lot of discussion about whether to show the severed finger
in the strange continuing saga of the finger in the chili. We decided
to show both it and a finger bitten off by a wild cat so viewers could
compare the two and decide whether they were one and the same, as some
allege. The first finger picture is not particularly gruesome, and we
removed unsightly aspects of the second finger before showing it.

'"Appetizing? No, but essential to telling this bizarre story."

'I think the logic that you've displayed here could open up new vistas
for TV news. The next time you cover a murder, perhaps you should, by
way of comparison, have a member of your staff shot dead. That way we
could really see what it's like. By your logic, it would be essential
in telling the story. You could call it "comparative storytelling". It
would be easier to get video, too.'

I never thought "Network" was textbook, but I guess this guy does.

##

[Mark Roberts]

On 6/7/05, Jeffries, Mark <mjef...@wr-llp.com> wrote:
>
> I bet in whatever the Bay Area equivalent of Schaumburg is,

...oh, my, that's a tough one. I'd guess Walnut Creek or, maybe,
Pleasanton...where she says in her blarrrrrrrrg is where she lives.

##

[Jeffries, Mark]

> At 04:22 PM 6/7/2005, Jeffries, Mark wrote:
> >I bet in whatever the Bay Area equivalent of Schaumburg is,

> there are
> >some soccer moms and little old ladies who just love "that
> cute little
> >Mexican girl who does the weather."
>
> Hey, now, just what do you have against "cute little Mexican" girls?

I was just trying to channel myself into the Pleasanton (if that's what
Mark says) mindset that would think that she's great--it's the same type
that would call Oprah "that cute colored girl." I love Justina Machado,
who's a former Chicagoan from a Latin neighborhood who's now on "Six
Feet Under" and will be in "The Mambo Kings" on Broadway later this
year, and she's a cute Mexican (or Puerto Rican, I've never asked).
She's just not calculatedly annoyingly perky like Roberta Gonzales.

> I looked at the blog - she is kinda cute. I'll have to see
> if i can punch the station up on the feed-o-matic and see her
> in action.

You'll regret it.

Mark Jeffries

[Mark Roberts]

On 6/8/05, Jeffries, Mark <mjef...@wr-llp.com> wrote:
> I was just trying to channel myself into the Pleasanton (if that's what
> Mark says) mindset

I'm now thinking more like San Ramon, which is just up the road on
I-680. Pleasanton would be more like Schaumburg's Barrington.

I disagree with you that ethnicity has much to do with it. KPIX must
have had a call out for "irritating meteorologists" and picked the top
two. Roberta also got the Chronicle newspaper gig after the main
meteorologist, Samantha Mohr, violated a Chronicle ethics policy, or
so the Chronicle said. At least a Sharpie(tm) will take care of
Roberta's newspaper presence.

> > I'll have to see
> > if i can punch the station up on the feed-o-matic and see her
> > in action.
>
> You'll regret it.

Seconded.

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[KJB]

At 03:54 PM 6/8/2005, Jeffries, Mark wrote:
> > Hey, now, just what do you have against "cute little Mexican" girls?
>
>I was just trying to channel myself into the Pleasanton (if that's what
>Mark says) mindset that would think that she's great--it's the same type
>that would call Oprah "that cute colored girl." I love Justina Machado,
>who's a former Chicagoan from a Latin neighborhood who's now on "Six
>Feet Under" and will be in "The Mambo Kings" on Broadway later this
>year, and she's a cute Mexican (or Puerto Rican, I've never asked).
>She's just not calculatedly annoyingly perky like Roberta Gonzales.

Ah, okay. All I've had to go on is the photo on the blog that looks
perfectly pleasant to me. And yes, I'd have to heartily agree about
Justina Machado and I could care less if she were Mexican, Puerto Rican or
secretly Canadian.

> > I looked at the blog - she is kinda cute. I'll have to see
> > if i can punch the station up on the feed-o-matic and see her
> > in action.
>
>You'll regret it.

Wouldn't be the first time. Come on, we're talking about someone that's
pursued a career in television weather - what can you reasonably be expecting?

KJB

[jbelkin]

Now that Christine Nubla jas left Channel 11 (KNTV), I believe you'll
want to turn to KGO (but just on the weekend - on the weekdays, you'll
need to adjust your TV to see past Jessica Agguire's too-much-collegen
lips):

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/aboutus/bios_sandhya_patel.html

[Jeffries, Mark]

> On 6/8/05, Jeffries, Mark <mjef...@wr-llp.com> wrote:

> > I was just trying to channel myself into the Pleasanton (if that's
> > what Mark says) mindset
>

> I'm now thinking more like San Ramon, which is just up the
> road on I-680. Pleasanton would be more like Schaumburg's Barrington.
>
> I disagree with you that ethnicity has much to do with it.
> KPIX must have had a call out for "irritating meteorologists"
> and picked the top two. Roberta also got the Chronicle
> newspaper gig after the main meteorologist, Samantha Mohr,
> violated a Chronicle ethics policy, or so the Chronicle said.
> At least a Sharpie(tm) will take care of Roberta's newspaper presence.

Didn't really think it was ethnicity I was trying to get into the midset
I was referring to--and unfortunately, they'll think ethnicity first in
those cases.

At least in the Chronicle you don't have to hear her voice--or does she
write perky in the Chronicle too?

Mark Jeffries

[Mark Roberts]

On 6/9/05, Jeffries, Mark <mjef...@wr-llp.com> wrote of Roberta Gonzalez:

>
> At least in the Chronicle you don't have to hear her voice--or does she
> write perky in the Chronicle too?

Roberta Gonzalez just *shits* perky.