The LuLac Edition #348, Nov. 12th, 2007
PHOTO INDEX: WILK'S "CORBETT," WBRE TV'S JILL KNOPKA, AND WILK'S MORNING SHOW HOST SUE HENRY.
MEDIA KUDOS
Last week's election coverage provided some great highlights. WILK's Election Night duo of Sue Henry and Steve Corbett was wildly entertaining. Corbett, fueled by takeout Chinese and Henry, getting away from the kid's homework assignments for the night were stellar in their broadcast. They handled calls from candidates, voters, and even bloggers. WILK really proved they were the news station.
On the TV side, WBRE's Jill Knopka did the most comprehensive election report I ever saw running down the big races in Wilkes Barre city. She managed to get all the council candidates and even the Mayor in her report.
For political junkies, election night brings out the stats, the figures but also the better side of media reporting. The cream as they say, always rises to the top.
WE'VE BEEN TUBED
This blog editor as well as a few media and poliitical people have been YOU TUBED by our friend from Wilkes Barre OnLine. Check this link out: http://wilkes-barre.tripod.com/.
posted by David Yonki @ 7:22 AM
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5 Comments:
WILK did a great job on election night. I was surprised and flattered when I received an email
from Sue asking me to call-in. Even
Corbett had some nice things to say about bloggers
before we were on the air. Sue referred to you as the "lovely and talented Yonk... And an Indians fan, bless his soul."
IN RESPONSE
I was surprised and flattered when I received an email from Sue asking me to call-in.
I WAS TOO BUT FRANKLY, THEY DIDN'T NEED OUR HELP ONE BIT. THEY HAD A LOT OF CALLS WHICH IS A GOOD THING.
It's a Wednesday afternoon at the Westmoreland Club. The head honchos at WBRE are having lunch and all of a sudden as they exit the grand exclusive club, they see Dave Yonki walking up the street toward Boscov's. "Look the three call out, there's our viewer!"
Nice thought on The Westmoreland deal, but you forgot one thing; Nexstar would N-E-V-E-R pay for any of its honchos to possess a membership there, and I do mean N-E-V-E-R.
Dave does get credit for having the stones to admit to watching WBRE, however. I saw the July numbers recently. Phewwwwwwwwwwww. Most litter boxes smell better. Their numbers are pitiful.
Speaking of the media, I have a few observations of my own. And they are not Kudos.
1. We are approaching winter and I am not looking forward to the perennial French toast stories that will undoubtedly air on the local news. You know the story – camera pans grocery shelves for eggs, milk and bread as customers are interviewed about stocking up for the “big storm”. Never mind that the storm may only drop a few inches, people act like they expect to be snow bound for a month and will have to survive on that French toast alone. Of course, the media creates the story by instilling fear of THE APPROACHING STORM. Have you ever noticed how the weather guys get off on bad weather? They practically jump up and down at the prospect of a storm. They even have contests for viewers to guess the date of the area’s first inch of snow. Gee.
2. In addition to the above mentioned perennial story, I have just seen this year’s edition of “King’s (Insert name of another university if you like) College Co-eds Play Homeless in a Box”. We have the resident twinkie reporter interviewing cute teens bundled up in blankets with books and candles or flashlights, as they wax on about how they now know how it feels to be homeless. After an hour or so in the box, they head back to the warm dorms or the houses mom and dad bought them to “help out” with their housing costs. Want to know what it’s like to be homeless? Travel with the Vision people and see it first hand. Talk to the plainly visible homeless people and ask them what it’s like and how it happened to them. Volunteer in a soup kitchen or free clinic. Time for students and reporters to start thinking “Out of the Box”.
3. Any day now, we will see the local charity beg-a-thon begin wherein a good person will plead for donations of turkeys and the rest of the Thanksgiving meal to feed those less fortunate that most. Now, I don’t dispute the need for such charity, especially in this economy. But to watch the news, one would think that the majority of people in NEPA are in dire need of a square meal. And judging from the number of toy, clothing and retail gift programs (you know, the tree with the tags showing the name of a person and the gift you can purchase for them in the store) put out by everyone from the Marines to local churches and civic organizations, the economy must be a lot worse than that tree stump in the White House has been leading us to believe. Now there’s a story some enterprising reporter can sink his or her teeth into: How does the government’s line on the economy match up with life here in the great northeast?
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