• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Air America Radio News News

M

mwebster

Guest
All Access reports AAR has hired a news director (one year and eight months after going on the air). Instead of finding the best radio journalist they could fine, they hired another political activist and member of an affirmative action entitlement group. This individual (like Mark Reilly and Wayne Gellman) worker previously for AAR's leased New York station, WLIB, and has been a "community issues" (translation: minority community puff pieces) for various local TV stations. Further, he identifies himself as a Puerto Rican Nationalist.

Well, he can't be as bad as Wayne Gellman, can he?

Once again, political connections and political connections appear to trump ability and experience at AAR. Even Salem is not this agenda-driven in hiring.


All Access:
______________________________________
Luciano Named VP Of News At Air America Radio

FELIPE LUCIANO has been named VP of News for AIR AMERICA RADIO, reporting to COO CARL GINSBURG. A founder of NEW YORK's PUERTO RICO-nationalist YOUNG LORDS PARTY, LUCIANO later became an anchorman and reporter for several NEW YORK TV stations, including WNBC-TV, WCBS-TV, and FOX' WNYW-TV, specializing in covering community issues in the FIVE BOROUGHS. He also hosted a show on WLIB-A/NEW YORK before it became AIR AMERICA's NEW YORK flagship.

"It’s like being home again," LUCIANO offered in a statement. "I am looking forward to working in an environment where I can deliver hard news and offer our listeners a relevant and progressive alternative."
 
> Instead of finding the best radio journalist they could fine,

How many Emmy awards for news reporting have you been awarded?

Or was that "affirmative action", too?

<P ID="signature">______________
also known as tombetz.</P><P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Tom Betz on 01/04/06 03:21 AM.</FONT></P>
 
a small challenge to mwebster

Mwebster you certainly have the right to evicerate ever personnel or programming decision AAR makes.....and you have the right to repeat it ad nauseum...that im not arguing about....

Id ask you to spell out your real issues with Riley say in comparison to another "struggling" performer...the new guy in Boston taking Severin's spot...Michael Graham....the consensus opinion is that both hosts are "struggling". You constantly grill Riley without really making your point....is that you don't like African American voices or delivery? I loathe asking but I think it needs to be asked...so i have no regrets....If its not that, I listened to Riley this morning and it was decent. I would not call Riley a "star" or "a breakout hit" but with his 30 years of experience, he does a fine, capable job but I would by no means call him a star....

We all know AAR's news is an afterthought, that it is totally biased....what is it outside of Gellman's annoying exit statement...that you disdain so much...he certainly is delivering the news no differently than any local news caster....Ive listened to Fox and recall some AP radio news readers...hes not worse or better than any of the current casters....CBS, ABC, and CNN news reports do have much better polished copy and more professional sounding hosts...no one would challenge that...

So my challenge is that you are just immolating on AAR and using these guys for constant disdain of the African American voice...after watching you constantly rant...i believe that you are simply imploding on all AAR staff..but you seem to really have a "mad on" for Riley and Gellman....im asking that you clarify once and for all..

Frankly its doesn't show up well ...so i offer you a opportunity to clearly make your point...so that we can all see what the real deal is.....
 
> All Access reports AAR has hired a news director (one year
> and eight months after going on the air). Instead of
> finding the best radio journalist they could fine, they
> hired another political activist and member of an
> affirmative action entitlement group. This individual (like
> Mark Reilly and Wayne Gellman) worker previously for AAR's
> leased New York station, WLIB, and has been a "community
> issues" (translation: minority community puff pieces) for
> various local TV stations. Further, he identifies himself
> as a Puerto Rican Nationalist.

They decided to aim as high as Fox in hiring news twinkies and former Alabama fashion queens, an Arizona weather girl, and another who couldn't pronounce Chalabi, the interim Iraqi oil minister. Bimbo #3 called him Chaby this afternoon three times in a row. Maybe she thought it was a fine fragrance.

AAR should just outsource their news to CNN or someone else and be done with it. Do we really need about three minute newscast source? Hell, pay the AP and let them do it.
 
>
> Once again, political connections and political connections
> appear to trump ability and experience at AAR. Even Salem
> is not this agenda-driven in hiring.

BS, OF COURSE THEY ARE. That's how the world works, sunshine.


$Big Dick
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom