Saturday, June 15, 2002

Luken Showing off?
Luken touts new powers at meetings Charlie is off gaining some knowledge about being mayor. He has done well so far, under the circumstances. Everyone seems to use poor Chaz as a whipping boy, but he has gotten treated far to harshly.

Thursday, June 13, 2002

UC Attracts Some Winners
UC student Jesse J. "J.J." Wilson, 20, of Sharon, Pa, was recently sentenced to 60 days to 18 months jail and ordered to pay a $100 fine for his involvement in a brawl February 2 at a Sharon, Pa area high school basketball game. This kind of person would not be the ideal student at any university. I wonder if he will return?
Fluff News Article
Here is an example of a TV News station running a fluff news article about something that is meaningless to the average viewer. This is a story about a local case of animal abuse, but his link comes from a Cleveland TV station. This should not be on their website. It should not be on mine either, but I chose to show an example of the pure drivel Local TV stations are covering these days.

Wednesday, June 12, 2002

City Beat Discovers there are Republicans
Greg Flannery of City Beat has discovered there are Republicans to criticize in his Porkopolis column in the June 13, 2002 Issue.
Bronson
Even a blind chipmunk can find a nut, link. I hate it when I agree with Bronson, but I can't automatically take the opposite position than he does. It seems that I do, but it is just a coincidence. No, really it is.
Gun Lawsuit
This story is a hot button issue that people seem to go nuts over. So here is the Link to it. This issue is as meaningful to many as reproductive rights (abortion for the confused). I find it to be a meaningless issue. Gun nuts will never cease to obsess on their need for power. A little metal will make them feel better. I don't care. As long as they keep their guns on private property, they can keep them. The bullshit issue is really the "conceal and carry" movement. If they want to strike fear into their neighbors, why not strap on a leg iron and go Old West. Get the Billy the Kid style gun belt, some spurs, and ten-gallon hat. If you want people to know you have a gun, show them the hard steel with a shine that could freeze a jumping bean on a hot pan. Now I am sure to be labeled as anti-gun. I am anti-gun. I hate guns. I am related to people who have died via guns. Keep your guns to yourself is what I believe, and you can keep them until they pry them from your cold dead hands, or from the hands of the person who kills you with it, which ever comes first.

Tuesday, June 11, 2002

City Beat is Off the Reservation?
Does City Beat even attack any of the Republicans anymore? The last Porkopolis Column seems to just beat on little Johnny Cranley, a Democrat. I bet they call me a racist, if they read the headline of this post.
City Beat has a Problem
It appears the Editor can't tell the difference between a news story and a column, which is opinionated. The evidence lies with this "news" story in the June 6th, 2002 edition of the City Beat. In this column two writers proceeded to slam a Peabody award winning television documentary originally aired on WCPO TV, the local Cincinnati ABC affiliate. They basically are trying to claim the same dogma the "Restoc" group claimed about development of Vine Street. That claim is simply gentrification. They are of the opinion that poor people can afford new and refurbished housing. That is just a misguided belief. Poor people can only afford low rent housing. That will never change, until we live the Star Trek future of economic utopia. If one can't see this column to be more opinionated than the New York Post editorial page, then one must believe that monkeys have powered wigs and can sing all the arias from The Magic Flute while floating two feet of the ground
Rick Bird has it Right!
Rick Bird has it right about what MSNBC is becoming and what FOX News is, nothing but talk radio with pictures. He is also right that CNN is slipping in the same direction. TV cable news is quickly loosing all of the gains it made in coverage and credibility after 9/11.

Monday, June 10, 2002

Mike McConnell Can Whine with the Best
Todat on his WLW-AM Midday talk radio show, host Mike McConnell was whining about a newspaper Column from John Kiesewetter of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Mike was acting like a child. I sent an email while he was on the air. Here it is:

Mike,

Could you whine more? Is it possible for you to actually break out into
tears over a newspaper column? Kiesewetter was right for the wrong reasons
and has attracted the real fascist police to his cause. The ads are
tasteless, but they fit your WWF world that WLW seems to live in now (my
Cincinnati blog covers that point http://cincinnati.blogspot.com). John's
tired old "for the children" rant was tired and just vomit inducing but
your whine has missed the real story. He got tons of support from Phil
Burress of CCV!!! I advise taking the free publicity with a smile, and add
a bit more overt sarcasm to your on air bitch session.

Brian
Mt. Washington
http://pulpstalag.blogspot.com
http://cincinnati.blogspot.com

I got no reply so far, and I did not hear one on the air, but I he has read one of my emails the next day on the air so I will wait and see.

Sunday, June 09, 2002

Roxanne Qualls Lost?
Laura Pulfer asks that question in her latest Column. Has Cincinnati lost Roxanne to Boston? I fear yes. I think Ms. Qualls would be the new scapegoat if she came back into town. Everyone needs a scapegoat. The GOP would gladly blame her; she was their whipping gal before she left. I wish she would return, she might me an interesting change to city or maybe Congressional Politics.
Profiling
I am torn on the issue of profiling. Denise Smith Amos appears not to be torn on it, based on her column.
Bronson has been Sniffing to much Flag
Peter Bronson appears to be getting lazy again. In today's Column he is whining about everyone and our inabilities to take things seriously, instead focusing on the superficial aspects of personal gain. He does attack everyone, Democrats and Republicans, but he ends the whole thing on this blind patriotism note. Has Pete been smoking his flags as well as waving them? He is more concerned about have his kind of superficial and meaningless patriotism at public events, than to honestly discuss the structure of the Federal Government. I think Pete is just being Pete, once again. Let your freak flag fly Petie!!!! Don't forget to salute, but don't bogart the flagage.
John Kiesewetter is on the Mark about TV News
John's column today points out the obvious about local TV news, but someone needs to say it again and again. John's message will go on deaf ears, because the public eats up the smoke and mirrors the local TV news puts on every day. If the public cared about information and the events of the day, instead of being entertained 24 hours a day, we might get local news at 6 and 11 everyday, instead of entertainment.

Saturday, June 08, 2002

When is WLW Changing its Call Letters to WWE?
Since the World Wrestling Federation lost the WWF abbreviation to the World Wildlife Fund, when is WLW changing its call letters too? WLW is the WWE of talk radio. Or is WLW just a wannabe WWE? Darryl Parks, the program director, seems to worship Vince McMahon. Darryl appears to wish people could see the wrestling tights he wears while on the air.
Willie Cunningham is even trying to recruit some wrestlers to be on air "talent":

Friday, June 07, 2002

Cincinnati Tourism Groups are Reaching Out Far
The Louisville Business Journal reports on Officials from the Greater Cincinnati Convention and Visitors Bureau actions to target Louisville as a source of tourism for Cincinnati. I hear the hour and a half trip is a killer.
Cleveland Based Church Joins Boycott
The Plain Dealer reports on the latest group to join the bandwagon. The AP joined in with a report. This group had no plans to hold any meetings in Cincinnati and appear to not have intended to either.
Another Catholic Sex Scandal Column
I have nothing much to add to the sex scandal, but here is Denise Smith Amos's Enquirer column on that subject.
Wells Gets to the Bottom of the Amnesty
In today's Enquirer Column by Associate Editorial Page Editor David Wells, the valid point to the anti-CAN fanatics was made clear. The actions being taken by CAN are nothing it has not been doing already for first time offenders. Since one of the CAN bigwigs is a bigwig at the company I am employed at, I was well informed of CAN's activities. It is making a small, very small dent in things so far, but it has potential.
Bronson and Homophobia Appear to Go Hand in Hand
Not that there's anything wrong with that, so to speak. Peter can hold hands with anyone he wants to, but in his latest column he once again perpetuates the myth of the connection between homosexuality and pedophiles. He tries to dispel his allusion to the myth at the END of his column, but the damage is done in earlier on. Bronson is just being Bronson.