KSFO Spocko story makes it to KCBS 5

[joewo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCcY5LrCMSA

 

[Joey1986]

The call letters for Channel 5 are actually KPIX. KCBS is the CBS affiliate in Los Angeles, on Channel 2.

 

[AVNevis]

What Morgan and Sussman said was not really that bad. This "spocko" is taking things way out of context. For example, here is the Pelosi clip:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200611210011

Heard in the proper context (as it is above) there is obviously no calling from Morgan for Pelosi to be killed.

If you take things out of context like this guy has done, you will be able to dig up tons of dirt on just about any personality you want.

 

[RadioJunkieMike]

What Morgan and Sussman said was not really that bad. This "spocko" is taking things way out of context. For example, here is the Pelosi clip:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200611210011

Heard in the proper context (as it is above) there is obviously no calling from Morgan for Pelosi to be killed.

If you take things out of context like this guy has done, you will be able to dig up tons of dirt on just about any personality you want.

So in other words... "Spocko" is doing to KSFO what Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly et al have been doing to the left for years? File this under "Pot calling kettle"/"Taste of your own medicine".

In any case, I'd say Sussman's stuff in particular (remember when he was a warm-n-fuzzy Channel 5 weatherman?) is pretty nasty.

 

[top the charts]

Melanie Morgan, Lee Rodgers and Brian Sussman are scheduled to address this controversy on Friday at 12 Noon on KSFO.

 

[kestrel]

Blogivations:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/1/11/12283/7816

 

[kestrel]

What Morgan and Sussman said was not really that bad. This "spocko" is taking things way out of context. For example, here is the Pelosi clip:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200611210011

Heard in the proper context (as it is above) there is obviously no calling from Morgan for Pelosi to be killed.

If you take things out of context like this guy has done, you will be able to dig up tons of dirt on just about any personality you want.

STFU wingnut. It ain't gonna wash.

 

[dampier]

Melanie Morgan, Lee Rodgers and Brian Sussman are scheduled to address this controversy on Friday at 12 Noon on KSFO.

In other words, make excuses, try and attract publicity for themselves, and try to do all they can to get advertisers back on board. The words you use can and do come back to haunt people, and when hosts call Obama a "Halfrican" or demand that a caller renounce his Muslim faith by "calling Allah a whore" and "eat pork," is it any surprise that advertisers may want to steer well clear of this, particularly after the station was sold as part of the "Disney family of stations." I don't think people seriously thought the Pelosi remark was the worst - these other instances are far worse. One wonders if a Muslim show host demanded that a Christian caller renounce Jesus by setting a crucifix on fire and calling Jesus the product of a cheating woman who lied about his conception would concern those on the right who now seem "shocked" by the backlash.

More importantly, it illustrates how desperate the third rate conservative talk shows have gotten to try and attract attention for themselves. And KSFO made it much worse by having lawyers send a cease and desist letter to 1&1 and the guy, the former of which folded and the latter couldn't have bought this much free publicity!

Melanie Morgan was even desperate enough to mass e-mail her fans (using a political action front group for cover -- one BTW which she denied up and down having anything to do with back during the 2004 presidential campaign) begging for supportive calls.

The most important lesson learned here - if you really want to control what is said on corporate airwaves these days, don't bother calling the hosts, the management, or the owners. Have a dozen people call the advertisers and get ten or so major accounts yanked and then watch the fun. Because in the end, that is all that really matters to ABC. And now that it has become a semi-national story, even more accounts are pulling the plug, putting KSFO's right wing talk shows in the same category as most political talk - off limits to mainstream advertisers. KSFO listeners can now instead learn the benefits of the Oreck vacuum, online dating, and gotomyPC, as well as a few true believing local advertisers who will keep their spots only because they believe the rhetoric.