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KFAQ's Brian Gann Encouraging Listeners to Attend Tea Party While Anchoring News

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Glenn Quagmire

Heard it during the 6pm hour this evening and just shook my head. I know he's the PD, but he should have more class than that and he should know better when anchoring a newscast.
My strong opinion on this has already gotten my Joe Kelley/Rick Couri shills thread thrown out of the Oklahoma forum.
However, in fairness to KRMG, I've got call to call KFAQ on doing something even KRMG hasn't done. Not once have I heard anyone from KRMG's News staff encouraging people to attend tea parties. (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong)
Pat Campbell and Elvis Polo are talk show hosts. If they want to encourage people to attend these rallies, then fine.
But, Brian you're a newsman, or at least you should pretend to be when you anchor a newscast. I know your station is struggling and your parent company has more holes than the Titanic, but you lost a major amount of my respect today from a longtime listener of yours and former media colleague.
 
Hard to argue with you, here... the actual newscast is one thing I've always seen as sacred. Obviously Brian (or Journal. more likely) sees it differently.

...How long until John Durkee is on KWGS?
 
Here's the problem...as Conservative Radio (formerly known as Talk Radio) is allowed to plunge to lower and lower depths, the line between opinion talk and news talk gets blurred. To Brian's credit, I'm sure he was pressured by the brass at Journal to promote this event, but he is a respected news presence and should have the integrity and the balls to say no.

News is news. Reporters should report the news as objectively as humanly possible. If Brian Gann promoted this event as part of a news story, then he has lost any integrity he once had, which is very sad. There is no way people like John Durkee or Neal Kennedy would have promoted an event like this, which may partially explain why Neal gave up the biz and why John took a job with the city only to resurface in radio at KWGS, which is untouched by corporate hands.
 
Matt, I agree 100%; that was PATHETIC.

Cable TV news channels lost all neutrality in my eyes more than a decade ago. The exception for me is Fox News, which is constantly called out as the "conservative" channel despite talking down Republicans & providing wall to wall coverage of Obama's every move. Whatever.

That reporter had no interest in reporting, she wanted to shout down the demonstrators. I've seen Ku Klux Klan rallies covered, gay pride parades in conservative areas covered, tent revivals & protests of military funerals... NEVER have I seen such a childish, biased "report." It would have been easy to echo what they were saying & leave the audience to decide, but she just couldn't separate her own passions.

If she were MY employee, she would be FIRED... then again, there might be a number of people at CNN with pink slips if I had anything to do about it. ;D

Not everybody agrees with my perspective on CNN:

from http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118002318.html?categoryid=14&cs=1

...the channel's full, 24-hour schedule has achieved ratings growth of late, attracting viewers with an increasingly rare nonpartisan approach to news and information.

However, CNN is losing ground competitively in primetime, where rivals continue to successfully carve out turf with strong, polarizing voices...
Click to expand...

...So perhaps what she did is exactly what CNN thinks it needs to do to win?

CNN, to my eyes, has really been blurring the lines between news reporter & opinionated talk show host. Most of the other networks, as far as I remember, have opinionated hosts but news anchors designed to appear neutral. (Some will argue the stories are written with a slant, & I wouldn't disagree.)

In this new world of "I want what I want when I want it how I want it," is this the future of news/talk? Do you suppose we'll all want news, weather & traffic with our own political slant?

"In traffic, watch out for pot holes at 31st & Memorial, Mayor Taylor STILL hasn't fixed them, but she found the money to wear a 100,000 dollar dress when she met with representatives from China..."

"In weather, another rainy day on tap, Republicans say a day like this will keep you supposedly lazy workers home; let's show them how wrong they are!"

"And in news, our idiot in chief had lunch today with somebody who has more intelligence in his little finger than in all of the women the president has had affairs with... no, he didn't have lunch with a rock..."

...Actually, this COULD be pretty entertaining! Slam ALL of AM 1170's programming far right ("don't let a liberal plumber work in YOUR kitchen, you know they'll ask for your help & charge you too much...") and take 98.5 FM far left news talk ("The current time is 10:07... when's the last time a Republican legislator did something for YOU instead of for the mega-corporations?").

If both stations REALLY took it over the top, I bet I'd listen to BOTH of them! :)

Jump... The... Shark...
Jump... The... Shark...
Jump... The... Shark...
Goooooo radio!!!
 
This stuff goes on all the time and it shouldn't. On election day last November a DJ in Memphis announced on her show "get out and vote. change is coming vote for change".

Shameless.
 
It's interesting to note the slide in journalistic integrity on both the left and the right.

But most of what is called "journalism" from Conservative and Liberal is merely partisan talking points these days.

Thank God for the web where I can find the actual truth if I search it out.
 
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