9 responses to “KVMR Interview”

1. 

   Michael R. Kesti

   23 June 2024

   I gave your interview a listen and very much enjoyed it. Thank you for doing it.

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   Paul Emery

   05 July 2024

   The ‘The Sages Among Us’ started when I was news director and scheduled it on our News Hour from 6:30-7:00 and i s still an excellent program. I miss your Commentary George which I recording for all those years to be part of the KVMR News Program that ran from 6:00 to 6:30 . That’s how we first got to know each other.

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   Don Bessee

   05 July 2024

   WOW talk about the po’ ol’ ponytail of ignorance whistling past the graveyard or just showing ignorance of what literally EVERY media outlet is breathlessly reporting every second! LOL
   😉

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   Don Bessee

   05 July 2024

   I know off topic Dr R, but we find the hiding one here so educate yourself po’ ol’ ponytail of ignorance –
   https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/07/05/biden-interview-stephanopoulos-abc-2024-election/74308762007/
   😉

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5. 

   scenes

   06 July 2024

   When I run into things like radio interviews, I’m always struck by how things seem to have changed from when I was a whippersnapper in another small town, although perhaps my memory is bad. It’s an area where looking at newspaper archives is valuable. I’m sure that GeorgeR’s history is an interesting one, so please excuse the direction my mind went here.
   Years ago, people given interviews in the paper, interviewed on the radio, members of the city council, were practically all prominent local businessmen, lawyers/judges, the occasional school or hospital official.
   Now, the only people I seem to hear from are retirees, local columnists expounding on national issues that they’ve gleaned from the internet, musicians, non-profit grifters, and ‘activists’.
   It’s as if serious activities have been eviscerated to be replaced by the trivial and transitory.
   Maybe it all reflects a real thing in these places. Perhaps some neutron bomb went off that left buildings, older folks musing about the past, and younger ones who do very little of value.
   This is just an impression mind you, so YMMV.

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   scenes

   06 July 2024

   Paul: “The ‘The Sages Among Us’ started when I was news director and &c.”
   A book I genuinely think you should read.
   ‘Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism’ (Attkisson).
   I generally avoid modern ‘political’ books, and there’s nothing less valuable on a shelf than something like a Bill O’Reilly tome, but you really could stand to read that. It’s fairly dispassionate and goes through a bit of the reality of the real-deal news business of the last 15-20 years.
   Of course, the implication is that a bit of self-examination might be in order, but honestly that’s an impossibility for most people.

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   fish

   06 July 2024

   ” It’s as if serious activities have been eviscerated to be replaced by the trivial and transitory.”
   If this disturbs you then fight the temptation to visit any online presence of major California newspapers. SFGate.com could easily be renamed The Gay Burrito Disneyland Express….a far more fitting and accurate description the content it provides than that of its current incarnations bland and misleading moniker. SacBee…..ugh…..waiting for half the social crusaders on staff to morph into the most recent version of serial plagiarist Diana Griego Erwin. LA Times…occasionally worth looking at.
   All of the chains (Gannett, etc….) serve little more than fluffy outrage for morons.
   Still wondering how it all went so sour….?

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   scenes

   06 July 2024

   “Still wondering how it all went so sour….?”
   No doubt there are a hundred books on the topic. Death of advertising, both commercial and classified, change of culture, chainification (my invented word of the day). A big mess of economic squeeze and infiltration by the ideological insane.
   Not the newspapers didn’t have opinions before, but the Chinese Wall between news and editorial seems to have utterly broken down.
   The Union is a funny Petri dish for this I think. Physically smaller, continuously cuts expenses (comics and crossword as of late, although the NYT crossword appears to be temporarily reinstated). Fewer deliveries (Juneteenth? No paper. July 4th? No paper.). Most of the printed words are polemics by Cooke/Grigsby/Durkin/Berkheimer/etc. and barely disguised ads by charlatan ‘therapists’ couched as advice columns.
   Somehow, papers from a century ago were a sea of words.
   My strong bet is that it’s 100% online within a year. A small office with a couple of ad salesmen and a keyboard drone slamming a few local pieces into the preset format. Given the readership, it will consist of Emily Litella columns, Garfield, and the obituaries along with the party line from on-high.

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   fish

   07 July 2024

   Re: the general awfulness of todays modern American newspaper….
   Today’s lead story in The Gay Burrito Disneyland Express:
   

   This giant Calif. candy store is the love child of Costco and Willy Wonka

   I remember Boardman saying something to the effect that the online offerings were the “lite” version of what you would find in the “real newspaper” if one was to actually subscribe! Seeing the level of journalistic quality of that presented in the online version wouldn’t in any way entice me to pay for the “real thing”!

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