SUNDAY!
Gene blew it
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Abby is not a Ham BONE
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Last week the media star was the late great JOE ANDERSON.
This week I want you to tell me where the above picture was taken!
Clue... The street rhymes with what costs a buck at the golden arches.



ABBY has SPOKEN at Knoxtrivia do you believe her?




I was hoodwinked, snookered, suckered, and taken by all the blog hype concerning the giant blow up set for Sunday on the WATE political talk show! Although it was my mom’s 91st birthday I canned the Birthday Lunch at the Hilton and made her bail early out of the Knoxville First Baptist service so I could have WATE warmed up and ready to go at noon.

So??? So WHAT! The first half was Gene and Rags playing nice. Only spicy question was when Patterson asked the county mayor if his recommended ethics committee could have members other than elected officials? Rags said no and then after he explained it dropped in something like if one of the people he asked to be on said no which he said was highly unlikely then he could ask a citizen to be a member. Lord help, first no and then yes? Patterson was tossed a nice slow pitch down the middle and just watched it go into the catcher’s glove for a called strike? Anyway, I blew it off thinking Gene was going to nail him in the next segment and he didn’t wanta tip his hand early!

Then the last segment! Here come the fireworks! Normandy, Boomsday, Hiroshima AND Nagasaki set to blow right there in my bunker!!!

Here is the way it went down. Gene said the report issued the last days of the former High Sheriff concerning Tyler Harber called the Rags a teller of tall tales, a prevaricator, a well you know the L word. Rags wanted to know who made the claims and where were they in the report.

Gene stammered a bit.

Gene kinda looked at his notes.

Gene then said he had not really looked at the report as much as he should have but that it said it. Rags implied that Gene had best have his facts in line before he made such a call about someone and Gene kept saying it was in the report although he couldn’t produce the page, the paragraph, or who said it.

Brothers and sisters if we watch any of the NATIONAL political Sunday shows we know the way to play GOTCHA is to HAVE the quote or the source on the screen when you ask the question. Lord help at least have it on the table with the parts high lighted so you can shove it in the victim's face when he tries to bob and weave! As for Rags getting agitated, well yes, but from what I was told on Gene’s blog, I thought we would see the veins in his teeth and fists flying. The second Gene could NOT produce the source Rags had him nailed and just pushed him around a little to make him squirm a bit. It was not worth missing a birthday lunch (actually moved it to an early birthday dinner) or cutting out of Knoxville First Baptist early!

Upside was the last of the show had Lloyd on and it was good to hear him back on the air. Bless his heart despite all his good words and ideas all I could think of was he needed to put a hit out on whoever styled his hair for the show.




New ratings for the networks and the LOCAL ABC STATION (WATE) is watching their network ROCK NBC out of first place! Part of it is FOX letting people know that NBC is NOT releasing their list of P A I D experts (CNN and ABC did) and also pointing out NBC network news is on a major swing to the left. Last week ABC won and guess what, they are beating NBC again THIS WEEK!

I hope by the 08 elections the entire nation realizes most of the over the air (and CNN) network news programs are built around their agendas and flash, and little to no news reporting. If that happens voters will make up their own minds rather than letting a paid talking head do it for them.

Here is the latest ratings from the BIG DOGS.

ABC World News With Charles Gibson got more viewers in the key 25-54 demo. Last week it was No. 1 across all the demos.
Overall, World News averaged 10,060,000 total viewers, with a 2.6 rating/10 share in adults 25-54 (3,240,000 viewers). This marks nine straight weeks of growth for Gibson's World News and an 11% increase year-to-year in total viewers.
Nightly News averaged 10,170,000 total viewers and had a 2.6/9 in adults 25-54. It had a 2.6 rating/9 share in the demo, with 3,150.000 viewers.
CBS Evening News With Katie Couric averaged 7,776,000 viewers and held a 2.2 rating/8 share among the key demo, finishing third in both categories.








Some of the posts this week are being talked about at knoxviews.com. One comment on that site is asking if being a D.J. qualifies someone to be a Journalist. I was midday and then later afternoon drive NEWS anchor at WKGN in 1973 (when radio news was both respected and HARD to get into in Knoxville) and also the weekend stringer for the AP broadcast desk. As for the D.J. part, I eased back into that area for one reason MONEY! I would love to post my answer to the "shot at Knoxviews.com but they have banned me for life, bless their hearts. Anyway, feel free to dash over and see what is living under the rock. I thought folks like that all grew up after 1965 and became republicans...lord was I wrong! LOL





As always THANK YOU for reading and passing the Media Report along. If you are bored the other blog has some new pictures posted.
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