Interesting TV up in Bangor

[Richard Chonak]

Well, he was ahead of the curve on recognizing the climate-science 
controversy, wasn't he?   I have to give him credit for that.

I think local news ought to be circumspect about promoting movies.  
Unless there's an appearance by the movie's star or producer (etc.), 
there's no real local *event* to cover.

Maybe this amounts to a conflict between the GM and the news director 
about news judgments or even about political bias.

--RC



On 11/21/2012 06:45 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
> The GM is a known loose cannon.
>
> Just look at this story from 2006
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/business/media/30warming.html
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> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Mark Laurence <marklaurence@mac.com> wrote:
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>> On Nov 21, 2012, at 4:33 PM, Mike G wrote:
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>>> Don't know if this has ever happened before, but talk about
>> unprofessional.
>> http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/2012/11/21/maine-news-anchors-quit-air/YqTUapdOzCp3Q73NYeubeM/story.html
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>> The Bangor Daily News story is a lot more thorough: http://bit.ly/QX7JgN
>>
>> You call it "unprofessional" which wasn't what came to my mind.  But I
>> don't know if you were saying the news anchors or station management were
>> acting unprofessionally.  The Bangor Daily News story (
>> http://bit.ly/QX7JgN) is a lot more thorough, and it says the anchors
>> claimed to be "'expected to do somewhat unbalanced news, politically, in
>> general.' Neither Michaels nor Consiglio would say what specific political
>> leaning they were expected to adopt."
>>
>> If true, it sounds like grounds for a very public resignation to me.
>>
>> Mark
>>