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What will happen to Tom Fitzmorris

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littlelarry

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when the former WSMB flips to sports? Where will Tom end up? Is this the end of Tom Fitzmorris? ESPN1350 is around the corner....


Hey V-Man, they given you a call yet?
 
Gee, I guess this fat, worthless freeloader will have to start paying for his meals. What a shock to his freeloading lifestyle. Especially considering the worhlessness of his radio opinions. Soup that he loves can taste like cat urine to others. And his giving a poor report to some struggling family trying to run a restaurant business can scuttle their efforts and finances. I've always thought restaurants should be able to sue pompous freeloaders like Tom Fitzmorris personally, and the station he works for in general, until he can somehow "prove" his claim, for damages to their businesses. I don't recall God ever proclaiming that the taste buds of Tom Fitzmorris were the best ever created.

Gee, what if a radio commentator said he/she thought Tom Fitzmorris is a fat, worthless, freeloading slug and his wife is an ugly glutton. What options would **he/they** have to respond and make everyone who heard it forget they heard it? No recourse, just like the restaurants he samples don't. Do you think that benevolent Entercom is going to offer free rebuttal time? They're likely too busy selling to buy Mrs. Fields a new 2009 BMW, and to hell with specifics that injure the common restaurant businessman, who is at the commentary mercy of this pig.

Personally, if I had a restaurant I'd run Tom Fitzmorris' fat freeloading ass away when I saw him coming and take my chances with my own cooking and word of mouth, rather than his pompous and worthless judgment of my business which cost life-changing expense and weeks and months of effort to open for business.

Hey Menotti, now you have another loser to stick up for besides radio's Holy of Holies Bob Mitchell, who is not listed on "People you can trust" by his own employer. Comment away. [EDIT]


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Hopefully that moron will be done away with finally. He has absolutely no knowledge of food and restaurants other than what he looks up online or reads about in someone else's books. He is completely clueless about food. We laugh at him whenever we hear his idiotic ramblings. His only true food knowledge comes from what he knows about eating in cruise ship buffet lines. Can you imagine?
 
Why should he? What purpose does he serve? Really.

Food critics and their employers should be liable for business damages lawsuits based upon nothing but their opinions.
 
In spite of the misinformed knocks on the guy, I'll pass this along ...

He said in his newsletter a couple of weeks ago there was a rumor he was moving to WWL at night, but management denied it.

Perhaps he moves to 4-6 on WWL and sports talk slides back to 6-8 or 6-9?
 
He is having his show sandwiched in the sports format. Odd, but that's what I hear. I wouldn't think that would last long, when does his contract end?
 
latenitewimp, please post your resume so we can judge you.thanks
 
wow,

there is some serious venom being spat on this thread. i acutally like his show. i think it's great. while he often comes across as rude to certain callers and pompous he does know food and new orleans restaurants and cooking. to dispute that is ridiculous.

the people who said that food critics and their companies should be able to be sued for loss of business are crazy.
should we sure people who review movies and televison shows too?
why don't we sure bloggers while were at it?
put out a good product with good service all the time and you don't have to worry.
I don't agree with everything Tom says. I had a big problem with a restaurant he praised on his website and said that the boiled crawfish were always piping hot. i went to the said restaurant and they were ice cold and i paid heavy-duty for them. to add insult to injury i saw people getting trays of steaming crawfish when i left.
however, the show is entertaining. the listeners are interesting, the reports about when things were opening after Katrina were great.
i take all food critics with a grain of salt. you cannot go to school to become a food critic.
but what's with the hate? he has tons of people who love him and participate in his dinners. he holds restaurants accountable. sometimes restaurants do not deliver. tough for them. if they don't do a good job yes he will slam them and others will slam them on food blogs such as chowhound.com

haters, take it easy! if he is such a "loser" why do you care so much?
 
I like Tom. Don't listen to him much but, he's always articulate.

Lorin Gaudin is great. Her loss is a blow to WRNO which didn't use her enough.
 
Please give Mr. Fitzmorris a break.

The man is a throwback to the days when WWL was flush with a talented airstaff. He's eloquent, knows what he's taking about (and makes it clear it's HIS opinion, not anyone else's), and adds class to a lineup that's sub-par by standards set by WWL decades ago.

He's a New Orleans native who sounds like he belongs on radio, not a "how's ya mom 'n' 'em" local who can't spout a single sentence without some sort of gross grammatical error.

As for his weight..so what? Considering the man makes a living by eating and talking about it, he's surprisingly slim.

As with anything else on the air...if you don't like what he says, you can always turn the radio off.
 
Man. I dunno who's getting bashed more on here --Fitsmorris or Mitchell. I've never worked with either of those guys. But to me their shows are pretty decent, although I don't listen often. And Tom does have an eloquence to him that I enjoy hearing.

On a side note, gotta agree with Nolaradiobuff. Lorin Gaudin was a nice and bright addition to WRNO! She will be missed.

Sam T.
 
Have listened to Tom for years. Can't say I always agreed with him. I worked in the restaurant bsns. for a number of years, and you learn a lot of what goes on in the back of the house. Tom never really knew that end of it, only what the media put out there...Regardless, I always seemed to turn his program on, and then dispute almost everything he said...I guess I just liked getting my dander up.
 
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