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KHRISTINE KAHANEK'S HUBBY IS IN SERIOUS TROUBLE

Am I surpised someones been busted with coke, not really. But to be honest, why does a two-bit publication like D think they'll get out of reporting this "hard hitting piece" of journalism? Furthermore, how will this affect the CBS11/D Magazine relationship??
 
I would imagine D felt an obligation to report it so that no one could accuse them of trying to bury it due to their business relationship.
 
if this had been the spouse of a City Council or School Board member who had been caught with cocaine it would have been all over the news for days. So I see nothing wrong with D posting information about the spouse of a well known TV personality.
 
I will give D credit for stepping up to the bat on this one, but my question is why now and will this affect KKs ability to keep her gig at 11?
 
What bothers me is this: If a sports figure,celebrity, politician were caught at any airport with cocaine it was headlines in the paper plus on TV and radio. Scott Chessner a few years back made the 23rd page of a newspaper for domestic assault twice and Nadine Bodett formerly of KSCS.The Ranch, and now The Range was arrested and tossed in the jail as well for assault also a few years back. NOT ONCE did any electronic media operation report on either story. They were personalities/celebrities and Now Khristine's husband. Could a news director please come forward and state why local media types who break the law are not news?
 
klifhanger said:
What bothers me is this: If a sports figure,celebrity, politician were caught at any airport with cocaine it was headlines in the paper plus on TV and radio. Scott Chessner a few years back made the 23rd page of a newspaper for domestic assault twice and Nadine Bodett formerly of KSCS.The Ranch, and now The Range was arrested and tossed in the jail as well for assault also a few years back. NOT ONCE did any electronic media operation report on either story. They were personalities/celebrities and Now Khristine's husband. Could a news director please come forward and state why local media types who break the law are not news?
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I can give you several reasons why this is the case in this market. First and foremost, we no longer have a regular local television writer for any of the local newspapers. Ed Bark has been forbidden by the Dallas Morning News from critiquing local TV news since 2000. The DMN seems to think it's unethical for them to talk about local TV news when they own one of the stations (WFAA) and have a news sharing agreement with them. The Fort Worth Star Telegram has a news sharing agreement with KXAS and has not allowed their writers to critique local TV news either. I am not sure that the FWST has a specific ban on coverage like the DMN, but they act the exact same way. Without people on a local beat like this, you just won't get coverage.

In the case of Chesner, I'd say the story got adequate coverage. Most domestic abuse cases do not make the paper. That being the case, it would be hard for a TV station to defend reporting on the personal problems of the talent on another TV station. A story in the paper on it is more than most get. The same goes for cocaine possession. It would be different if the talent herself had been charged.

Finally, the person on KSCS is just a no-name. Nadine Bodett? Never heard of her. I'm sure most reporters would look at the arrest report and see the name and never make a connection that this person was some kind of celebrity.
 
Good points. However "Nadine" was very popular at the time of the incident with her mid days at KSCS and her saturday nights with the "Five and Dime".

None the less, if sports figures, celebrities are reported on for breakingthe log,the media should also reporton their own for doing the same if they wish to maintain a non-partial objective reporting image,they advocate.
 
Objectivity is in the eye of the beholder. True, a lot of stations key their news promotions to "fast, accurate, objective," or othersuch claims. So no matter HOW unobjective those of us on the outside adjudge coverage to be, the news types will maintain their objectivity, at least as it exists in the view of the station itself. Long story short, "We are objective if we say we are." Translation: "It matters not which stories we ignore. We're STILL objective."
 
Well ask yourself if this involved the SPOUSE of a Dallas Cowboys player...would THAT be reported? Doubtful. Same thing here. IF it were Kristine, you can bet local media would have made the connection on the name and been all over it, but his name probably didn't raise any suspicions on the police blotter and certainly SHE wasn't going to volunteer the information.
The fact is no one has made any mention that Kristine did anything wrong. Her husband isn't a public figure of any kind and thus is just another cocaine arrest going through the judicial system, as it probably should be.
 
As is often the case Steve has added the voice of reason to this thread. There is no corruptionm of blood in our supposed civilized society. Just who is related to an accused wrong doer is not the issue, ordinarily not in itself a story. But add the presence of a known quantity, and the equation suddnly changes. Who specifically did wrong and what was allegedly the wrong doing is the case, not who is related to the doer of wrong. But this instance, among many, points up the fact that names, even sobriquets as is the case here, make news. And how many times has the argument been advanced that "conflict makes news"--man vs. the law, man vs. nature, and on it goes. Not, as is strongly intimated here man and to whom he is married. So, if his wife had happened to have been a flower arranger at at Dallas floral shop, would the arrest still have made news?

It seems to be a case of "raking muck."
 
Nadine Bodette???? :D :D :D What kind of hick name is that???? I just went to the Range website. No sight of her.
 
The point I was making here is the troubles of celebrities (national or local) plus their not so famous spouse and kids,being reported in all media. Broadcast celebrities should not be placed above it. It is muck raking in a sense ,yes,but isn't the media over all doing that very thing? Especially since the mid 90's? Media celebrities are just as much a target as other types of celebrities. The best thing really is just report the news,but then again that would make too much sense.
 
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