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Former Sportscaster Warner Wolf Arrested

This is a case of the media creating the news. If a 16-year-old kid had done something like this, it would never have been reported by the media, even locally.
 
Kemosabe said:
As do people in Washington, D.C.
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The point is that his fame was largely limited to a portion of the I-95 corridor, but since so many of the decision-makers in the news media live and work in that small section of the country, their myopic view of America is reflected in what and whom they choose to cover. Why do you think the people at NYC-based Sirius made Bruce Morrow the face and voice of their '60s channel? Because they couldn't conceive of anyone anywhere in America -- or at least anywhere in America that matters -- not knowing who Cousin Brucie was or recognizing him as the ultimate '60s DJ. Sirius was also the "national" radio company that created "Client Nine Radio," a 24/7 channel covering the tawdry affair of Eliot Spitzer, as if his downfall meant beans to anyone outside the state.

Sometimes Big Media's NY myopia works -- TV's "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "All In the Family," "Seinfeld" were all set in or around the city -- but the idea that all NYC media personalities are somehow national celebrities is something that needs to be addressed, IMO.
 
CTListener said:
The point is that his fame was largely limited to a portion of the I-95 corridor, but since so many of the decision-makers in the news media live and work in that small section of the country, their myopic view of America is reflected in what and whom they choose to cover. Why do you think the people at NYC-based Sirius made Bruce Morrow the face and voice of their '60s channel? Because they couldn't conceive of anyone anywhere in America -- or at least anywhere in America that matters -- not knowing who Cousin Brucie was or recognizing him as the ultimate '60s DJ. Sirius was also the "national" radio company that created "Client Nine Radio," a 24/7 channel covering the tawdry affair of Eliot Spitzer, as if his downfall meant beans to anyone outside the state.

Sometimes Big Media's NY myopia works -- TV's "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "All In the Family," "Seinfeld" were all set in or around the city -- but the idea that all NYC media personalities are somehow national celebrities is something that needs to be addressed, IMO.
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New York isn't the only city where Big Media Myopia happens though. TMZ the source mentioned here does the same thing for Los Angeles where all the west coast branches of media companies play the same game where a limited group of management on the CA-134 freeway corridor thinks everything is about reality stars though and Harvey Levin and the TMZ crew run with that too for the West Coast. Well back to Warner Wolf this issue will end up moving from Vandalism to Racism given the way the articles have been describing the incident.
 
RadioPatrol said:
https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/n...-arrested-for-damaging-racist-sign/1769418349
According to this report Warner Wolf apparently destroyed the sign because he saw the sign as racist "Plantation".
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Has Mr. Wolf also tried to remove the letters from signage pertaining to the city of Plantation, Florida? I wonder whether he regards the name Plymouth Plantation to be racist.

CTListener said:
The point is that his fame was largely limited to a portion of the I-95 corridor, but since so many of the decision-makers in the news media live and work in that small section of the country, their myopic view of America is reflected in what and whom they choose to cover.
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Perhaps there are few who would remember his nationally televised appearances in the booth for "Monday Night Baseball" on ABC—and fewer yet who could recall reading his books.
 
CTListener said:
The point is that his fame was largely limited to a portion of the I-95 corridor
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Well, not totally within the I-95 corridor—besides Imus, he was also a regular on The Today Show, with a monthly (weekly?) sports blooper segment.
 
Kemosabe said:
Has Mr. Wolf also tried to remove the letters from signage pertaining to the city of Plantation, Florida? I wonder whether he regards the name Plymouth Plantation to be racist.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plantation?src=search-dict-hed#synonyms

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/plantation

Well the original meaning of plantation had a different meaning though and it was on agriculture. But that word "plantation" that get explains in history classes ends up being a discussion on slavery before the civil war though and thats how Warner Wolf apparently thought "plantation" is racist?
 
ThePowerCow said:
Uncle Kaimbridge said:
Well, not totally within the I-95 corridor—besides Imus, he was also a regular on The Today Show, with a monthly (weekly?) sports blooper segment.
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That was Len Berman
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Whoops, crap, you are right!
OMG, I think Iʼve always—of what Iʼve heard of them (and I am outside of the NYC TV/daytime radio market! P=)—mish-mashed them together in my mind as one, single person...and they do have quite similar personalities! P=)
 
Nothing new, just the typical left wing, liberal agenda we hear every day, while I live in my safe, non urban, lilly, secure upscale, rich community, I will dictate how others should live and act. Just like the Kennedy's logic, all races should live together, but not on my block...
 
On Kennedy, Lawman: Warner Wolf always did have that lopsided Ted Kennedy face on the TV. He and his somewhat disinfected Beltway accent were always fun. A typical Mets videotape highlight:

'Dave Kingman .... two awn .... bawtum of the seventh, and BOOM! There it geauze. The 371 sign .... '

I somehow suspected that his short-lived TV show -- at his popularity peak -- would be short-lived. But he was a fun watch. I found him and his one-element schtick and Chris Berman's nonsense very enjoyable.
'Jim 'Two Silhouettes On' DeShaies', for crying out loud.
Just gimme some entertainment ... a chuckle or two.

It's good that it all worked out okay, though. I'm a bit puzzled by his four hours in jail remark, however, and it not 'being fun'. Maybe the inmates were doing four hours of Warner Wolf impersonations.
 
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