Remember the board thread last month about Lew Ruggiero, 12's revered political reporter, leaving the air? A number of posters bemoaned his loss and feared that he would be replaced in Phoenix by the young, blonde, cheap, and dumb. Well, it's happened but at a different station...
USC's School of Communications is circulating something they call a Political Reporters Resource Roadmap for the media and they break it down into the various states with a list of their local resources for political information. If you go to their AZ page at http://reliableresources.org/roadmap/statesources.php3?state=AZ#media and scan down to Political Journalists/Media you'll find "Katie Raml, KNXV-TV, Political Reporter" as THE TV political reporter listed for Phoenix! That's funny -- I thought there were a couple of others and, besides, isn't she supposed to be a "news anchor" and, according to her, doesn't know a partisan political event from her make-up case?
After the last state and federal elections Katie Raml and ABC 15 were skewered by the Columbia Journalism Review http://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/4/dartslaurels.asp for her leading partisan campaign victory rallies and using her name and credentials to help raise funds for a local Political Action Committee. Not that the specific partisan cause matters, but for the record, it's a liberal Republican group that seeks to elect pro-abortion women candidates. Raml was caught posing for smiling arm-in-arm PR photos with their candidates (which were posted on the PAC's website) and also, according to public campaign finance records, contributed money to the group -- using both her name and her affiliation with the TV station. In addition, the events (one called a Campaign Victory celebration) were billed and advertised as partisan political events with Raml as emcee and headlined by her own Scottsdale home district Senate and House representatives. (In an earlier Republic interview Raml had bragged that she was a political activist for the same partisan cause during her Scottsdale school days.) Incredibly, when questioned by the CJR about her obvious unseemly personal political activities, Raml claimed she was "unaware of the political nature of those events." !!!
Uh huh - right. There's some news anchor credibility for you. I understand recently Raml spoke at another event organized by one of this same PAC's politician members who was running for the Chandler City Council.
Funny, now Raml claims she's the top political resource in Phoenix television yet 2 short years ago she claims she's so naive she didn't know a partisan political pep rally from a tupperware party.
Lew Ruggiero, meet your replacement! :'(
I didn't realize ABC 15's "make the switch" meant political parties too!
USC's School of Communications is circulating something they call a Political Reporters Resource Roadmap for the media and they break it down into the various states with a list of their local resources for political information. If you go to their AZ page at http://reliableresources.org/roadmap/statesources.php3?state=AZ#media and scan down to Political Journalists/Media you'll find "Katie Raml, KNXV-TV, Political Reporter" as THE TV political reporter listed for Phoenix! That's funny -- I thought there were a couple of others and, besides, isn't she supposed to be a "news anchor" and, according to her, doesn't know a partisan political event from her make-up case?
After the last state and federal elections Katie Raml and ABC 15 were skewered by the Columbia Journalism Review http://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/4/dartslaurels.asp for her leading partisan campaign victory rallies and using her name and credentials to help raise funds for a local Political Action Committee. Not that the specific partisan cause matters, but for the record, it's a liberal Republican group that seeks to elect pro-abortion women candidates. Raml was caught posing for smiling arm-in-arm PR photos with their candidates (which were posted on the PAC's website) and also, according to public campaign finance records, contributed money to the group -- using both her name and her affiliation with the TV station. In addition, the events (one called a Campaign Victory celebration) were billed and advertised as partisan political events with Raml as emcee and headlined by her own Scottsdale home district Senate and House representatives. (In an earlier Republic interview Raml had bragged that she was a political activist for the same partisan cause during her Scottsdale school days.) Incredibly, when questioned by the CJR about her obvious unseemly personal political activities, Raml claimed she was "unaware of the political nature of those events." !!!
Uh huh - right. There's some news anchor credibility for you. I understand recently Raml spoke at another event organized by one of this same PAC's politician members who was running for the Chandler City Council.
Funny, now Raml claims she's the top political resource in Phoenix television yet 2 short years ago she claims she's so naive she didn't know a partisan political pep rally from a tupperware party.
Lew Ruggiero, meet your replacement! :'(
I didn't realize ABC 15's "make the switch" meant political parties too!