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WRKO News Bleep-up

Apparently they were doing it all day.

Sandy announced that the news is done in a different building, and the Howie Carr show was getting calls about it.
 
Infidel said:
Apparently they were doing it all day.

Sandy announced that the news is done in a different building, and the Howie Carr show was getting calls about it.
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Not making any excuses and it's very unfortunate, but that was out of WRKO's control in this case.
 
I disagree it was totally in thier control.. they made the decision to axe the local news staff and sub it out.

If Listo Fisher was there this would not have happened.

You get what you pay for.
 
Neggy said:
I disagree it was totally in thier control.. they made the decision to axe the local news staff and sub it out.

If Listo Fisher was there this would not have happened.

You get what you pay for.
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Right on! What college intern was running this story?
 
Good thing it was only Rodman. If they had said it was Menino, Howie would have lost his job! :D
 
I see the hand of Julie "The Executioner" Kahn and Shorty in this.
This is what happens when you get a bunch of amateurs running a 50K Watt station.
"Kid's News " on Ch. 5 on Sunday would do a much more professional job than these idiots.

Run the station on the cheap and that is what you get. If the world ended, WRKO would be the last to announce it...

The sooner Julie is back on the street the better RKO will be.
 
Yup I heard it too. I was at work, putting trays of mail into a container, and heard Scott Pike (I believe that's his name) from Metro News say "Dennis Rodman" twice but on the third try he said "Dennis Johnson". A couple
minutes later, Nancy "Sandy" Shack interrupted Howie to say "We've been getting some calls--just to let
people know, we do know it was Dennis Johnson and not Dennis Rodman who passed away. Our news
is no longer done in this building, it's done in a building across town."
 
This is so sad.... . These METRO readers never worked in a real news environment...never studied journalism and only do what they are told to do...even when it's wrong.

Sad...very sad :'(
 
PennBlue said:
This is so sad.... . These METRO readers never worked in a real news environment...never studied journalism and only do what they are told to do...even when it's wrong.

Sad...very sad :'(
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You know this about "Metro Readers" how? Tell us about their backgrounds please, because here's guessing you don't know a single one of them or their professional or educational background. I'm all for pointing out mistakes, but these flagrant generalizations are enfuriating. Let's not again forget that half of the late WRKO news staff worked at Metro first (Rod, Ben, Sharon, and Deb).

This is the industry eating their own, isn't it? Or is the largest broadcast staff in Boston (Metro's) not part of what you all consider radio?
 
Infidel said:
Sandy announced that the news is done in a different building, and the Howie Carr show was getting calls about it.
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Were they people calling to say they had Rodman in the Celebrity Death Pool?
 
Let's not again forget that half of the late WRKO news staff worked at Metro first (Rod, Ben, Sharon, and Deb).


If Rod, Ben, Sharon and Deb thought that Metro was a legitimate, credible news operation....why would they leave in the first place ???? Most newspeople would want to work at a real, legitimate operation...but journalist and credible newspeople do not stay at Metro. There must be a reason..tell me what it is ????
 
PennBlue said:
Let's not again forget that half of the late WRKO news staff worked at Metro first (Rod, Ben, Sharon, and Deb).


If Rod, Ben, Sharon and Deb thought that Metro was a legitimate, credible news operation....why would they leave in the first place ???? Most newspeople would want to work at a real, legitimate operation...but journalist and credible newspeople do not stay at Metro. There must be a reason..tell me what it is ????
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sweeping generalization here, but often, people join organizations. they leave bosses.
 
PennBlue said:
Let's not again forget that half of the late WRKO news staff worked at Metro first (Rod, Ben, Sharon, and Deb).


If Rod, Ben, Sharon and Deb thought that Metro was a legitimate, credible news operation....why would they leave in the first place ???? Most newspeople would want to work at a real, legitimate operation...but journalist and credible newspeople do not stay at Metro. There must be a reason..tell me what it is ????
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Three reasons:

1. $$$$
2. Money
3. Moulah

If you're now going to argue that more money means a more credible news operations, I would like to prepare to laugh.

By the way, as you seem to have this all-encompassing knowledge of the Metro News staff and their qualifications, please share. Can you tell me anything about anyone who works there now? Their history and qualifications? Who are these other credible folks who left? I'm the only one here who apparently even realizes that those other people used to work at Metro.

Here's the challenge: back-up up your allegations with anything whatsoever. To remind you, here's what you've alleged:

"These METRO readers never worked in a real news environment...never studied journalism and only do what they are told to do"

Have at it.
 
UncleArnie said:
Here's the challenge: back-up up your allegations with anything whatsoever. To remind you, here's what you've alleged:

"These METRO readers never worked in a real news environment...never studied journalism and only do what they are told to do"

Have at it.
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31 hours later, not a peep. Just as I expected.
 
Not to start a war here, but I do know someone at Metro, and according to that pretty reliable source the folks doing "news" are unsupervised and left to their own devices and less than a handful have news experience.

That compares with an award winning news staff that was fired by Entercom at WRKO to save $$$$.

And Uncle Arnie is right...why would anyone leave Metro? Because they are paid very poorly and that is the same reason you don't see a lot of news veterans working there.
 
and that is the same reason you don't see a lot of news veterans working there.
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Just to clarify, it ($) is the same reason you don't see out of work news veterans flocking to work at Metro.
 
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