It was like something you would expect from the KUOW guys, not a "pure" news station like KOMO 1000.
Seriously, is that kind of swipe really necessary? Or are you trying to be 'ironic?' I don't think you'd ever hear hosts or reporters on KUOW cheerlead -- especially for a political candidate. Guests on the Friday news roundup, perhaps, but they are commentators. Hold your knees in place before you hurt somebody with your reactions.
Your point is, however, well taken about KOMO, if that's indeed what was said, instead of what you read into the situation. I have found them to not come across as very journalistically sound on too many occasions - especially in the past year or so with an inadequate news staff. Many announcers sound as if their training is in doing commercials and DJ-ing, not journalism. I once phoned KOMO to call them out a lack of coverage on a major demonstration in downtown - heck, right past their studios, that they didn't even mention for a day. The person who andwered explained that they only had one local news person on duty on weekend afternoons, so couldn't really cover much first hand. Some kinds of all news service for a major market, eh? And that was when Fisher ran the place and apparently invested a bit more than they get now.
You know, not too many years ago, when broadcasters had to at least try to respect the provisions of the Fairness Doctrine, and prove that they each provided at least a sliver of genuine public affairs programming, you got actual news reporting on a lot more outlets than you do today. Commentary was distinct from reporting, and the real news departments would never encourage their hosts to be partisan. Maybe a personality would be a commentator (I'm thinking of K-59's morning hosts in Honolulu in the 1980s-90s), but that wasn't the way news was usually treated.
My point is that without standards and rules that everyone has to at least pretend to follow, you end up with what we've got today. If you favored complete deregulation of the industry, I hope you enjoy what you've got now. Because I have to go elsewhere to get even a bloody traffic update on how backed up I-5 is much of the time. Except for the excellent Pete whatshisname doing weekday drive time traffic updates (I haven't listened in so long I forget his name), KOMO's weekend traffic updates are often less than 10 seconds long, and now they are preempted by basketball games on the weekends, which makes them hardly worth the effort to tune in. Contrast that with the traffic and weather on the '1s that you hear 24/7 on CKWX Am 1130 from Vancouver (when the pre-sunset interference from Oregon doesn't wipe their 50kw signal out) and you'll understand how much more informative KOMO could be for its Seattle area listeners.
