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Lieberman? REALLY?

NoMoreLurking said:
Is anybody satisfied that this...

http://richliebermanreport.blogspot.com/

...appears to be the go-to for Bay Area media info?

Lieberman's blog has the hygiene of a Clovis Sonic plus the aesthetics of a Cotati A&W. And the accuracy of a Trump tweet.
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While your phrasing is a bit obtuse, I've found the Lieberman blog also to be graphically ugly and mysteriously inaccurate or, more often, off base.

In recent posts, he skewers KNBR for adding an FM simulcast, an ignorant position given how moves to FM by sports stations in other big markets have helped sales and younger demos. He is just way too wrong on this.

His obviously self-penned self-description is this_

Rich Lieberman, "Big Vinny" has been a fixture in the Bay Area media scene for over 20 years. He grew up in the Bay Area, attending Oakland's Skyline High and SF State University. At age 18, Rich got his first position as sports reporter at K-101 Radio, where he covered the Giants and A's, Raiders, 49ers and Golden State Warriors. He also covered the Niners playoff win over Dallas in the NFC Championship and reported on-scene from the Super Bowl in Detroit in 1982 when SF won its first of four Super Bowls. Along with K-101, Rich was a major contributor to Mutual Broadcasting Sports, covering Pac-10 football, and later on, was a featured Bay Area correspondent for the "Larry King Show". Lieberman's fame didn't stop there, as in 2001 he served as the spokesperson for the Round Table pizza chain; his four commercials touting a new "NY-style" pizza called the "Big Vinny" was the origin of his nickname, "Big Vinny". The first commercial debuted on the airwaves during the 2001 Super Bowl. Currently, Rich is a media/culture/sports blogger and has appeared on numerous cable and TV shows. He is also a special events planner and coordinates fundraisers in the Bay Area.

None of that seems to set him up as a critic of anything but play-by-play sports and mass produced pizzas.
 
LOL.

In addition to his nonsensical metaphors and similies (which No More Lurking skewered quite nicely) his spelling and grammar are atrocious, and yes, he's wrong more often than not. Sadly, no one (at least not locally) writes about radio intelligently and critically anymore -- what newspaper anywhere has a regular radio columnist? BF Torres has been MIA from the Chron/SFGate lately and even when he was writing Radio Waves it was rarely anything besides puff pieces.
 
Lieberman bumped along as an unorthodox, edgy take on Bay Area media until about five years ago when he took a turn for the worse. Outrageous and indefensible sexual remarks about air talent cost him most of his female readership. From there, it's been on to a series of personal vendettas, fever dreams about Jim Gabbert buying 610 and putting KFRC as we knew it back on the air (in the past couple of months, that's changed to KGO) and a continual bashing of people who simply don't deserve it (Stan Bunger, Susan Leigh Taylor, Ben Fong-Torres).

A few months back, he made good on a threat to end the site----a threat he'd used for a couple of years to push for donations that essentially backfired. One commenter (how Rich approved it, I'll never know) said something to the effect of "Rich, you use Blogspot, which is free. Your internet and phone service would cost the same if you weren't writing this. If that's too much, maybe you should stop doing this and get a paying job."

And so, there was an overwrought "days of contemplation", followed by the pulling of the plug.

And then...I don't want to scroll all the way back to find out exactly, but it was a matter of days, not weeks, he was back, promising to do a better job and cut the crap.

That lasted about a week.

I stopped reading several months ago and looked for the first time since then when I saw this thread.

Yes, the Bay Area deserves better. If BFT isn't going to write for the Chron anymore, how about David Ferrell Jackson adding a news page to BayAreaRadio.org?
 
michael hagerty said:
Yes, the Bay Area deserves better. If BFT isn't going to write for the Chron anymore, how about David Ferrell Jackson adding a news page to BayAreaRadio.org?
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Now that is a good idea.

Like you, I deleted my Lieberman bookmark and quit reading. I went back after seeing this thread, and I regret it already. Offensive and toxically misogynistic.
 
RL loves his hilarious similies referencing fast food establishments in Bay Area communities, often juxtaposed with childish toilet humor. His writing smells worse than doo doo clogging the toilet at the Rohnert Park In n Out.
 
Bay Area Radio News Updates (Was: Lieberman? REALLY?)

michael hagerty said:
Yes, the Bay Area deserves better. If BFT isn't going to write for the Chron anymore, how about David Ferrell Jackson adding a news page to BayAreaRadio.org?
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That's a great idea, Michael ... if someone else wants to write it. It's not an issue of adding a news page; it's an issue of having someone with the time, resources and writing skills to actually do the work.

I do, on occasion, post to the radio museum's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/barhof/) when I have a moment between working and family and Other Important Things. It's well-trafficked – our post about KFOG becoming Sports Leader FM had 1800+ engagements, 100+ shares and 60+ comments. That's far fewer comments than here on RadioDiscussions.com, but our Facebook followers are not the same hardcore radioheads that you'll find here.

A news item on BayAreaRadio.org doesn't have to be 6,000 words. All that actually has to be posted is "All Access reports that..." (for example) or "Entercom has announced that..." (for example) and a few words and a link to the source material and you're done.

I did try to do a separate Blogspot blog for a while as a successor (kind of) to the old Bay Area Radio Digest but, again, time became an issue. The blog is still out there, floating on the Interwebs, but I haven't put anything on it in probably three years.

D.J.
 
michael hagerty said:
A few months back, he made good on a threat to end the site----a threat he'd used for a couple of years to push for donations that essentially backfired. One commenter (how Rich approved it, I'll never know) said something to the effect of "Rich, you use Blogspot, which is free. Your internet and phone service would cost the same if you weren't writing this. If that's too much, maybe you should stop doing this and get a paying job."

And so, there was an overwrought "days of contemplation", followed by the pulling of the plug.

And then...I don't want to scroll all the way back to find out exactly, but it was a matter of days, not weeks, he was back, promising to do a better job and cut the crap.

That lasted about a week.
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annnnnnnnnnd... he's done it again.

http://richliebermanreport.blogspot.com/2019/09/out-of-abyss-415-media-last-supper-maybe.html
 
RadioJunkieMike said:
As you may be aware, Lieberman got slammed this week:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...sexist-blogger-Richard-Lieberman-15543501.php

Lieberman is claiming the 29 women were coerced into signing the petition by ABC-7 Genl Mgr Cibrowski. Meanwhile his blog has gotten more publicity in the last few days than in the previous 10 years.
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And right now on his blog he's being as defensive as a summarily fired-with-cause drive-through order taker at a Tracy In-N-Out.

(there was a fire sale on hyphens and I went for it)
 
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