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C-Mac · 03-08-2009, 08:16 AM

It’s OK to question Pioli and the Chiefs

Wednesday afternoon, on my drive on I-70 to watch the Tigers and the Sooners tangle, I passed the time listening to sports-talk radio.

I find one of our local stations unlisten-Neal-able, so you can assume which station and which show entertained me along the highway. And you can guess which host nearly made me drive off the highway.

The New Don Fortune expressed his disinterest in needing access and information from our New Carl Peterson, Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli. The New Don and his trusty sidekick, Mad Jack Harry, spent several minutes telling their listeners that we should trust Pioli implicitly and not waste emotion or energy worrying whether Pioli reveals himself, his plans or his players to the media.

Having worked in sports-talk radio, I’m aware the discipline requires a dramatic and healthy loosening of journalistic standards. But basic common sense and backbone are allowed and occasionally encouraged when hosting a radio show.

Supporting the new regime does not equate to rejecting the primary (and redeeming) role of the media.

It’s our job to acquire information and pass it along to you. Based on what we’ve seen from the Bill Belichick era in New England and our first two months with Pioli, gathering pertinent and enlightening information about the Chiefs is going to be rather difficult.

The Patriots, under Belichick and Pioli, reached the conclusion that too much media access disrupts locker-room chemistry and undermines the voice of the head coach. In New England, Belichick has turned the Boston media into an easy-to-play foil for his players.

He’s brainwashed his players into believing the media are evil, incompetent and stirrers of chaos. Obviously, we are not perfect. A collection of human beings cannot be flawless. There are instances when individual moments of incompetence make the media appear wicked or solely interested in controversy.

But overall, we attempt to be a watchdog of those with power. When we fail to play that role, generally speaking, terrible things happen. The Iraq War is a worst-case scenario. We trusted our president implicitly, led the cheers when we declared war on Iraq and declined to demand answers to difficult questions. Hundreds of billions of dollars later, and with our economy in collapse, we now blame poor, minority homeowners for the fall of our society.

I apologize. I digress.

Let me give you a worst-case scenario in the sports world.

If, in an attempt to duplicate New England’s three-Super Bowls dynasty, we neglect our journalistic, democracy-ensuring duty to challenge Pioli, there’s a far better chance that he replicates Carl Peterson’s Kansas City era than Belichick’s New England one.

Unchallenged leaders are dictators and quickly turn unethical.

For years, Kevin Kietzman and Jack Harry whined on radio that Peterson, in attempts to have them fired, harassed their former television bosses. Kietzman and Harry complained about Peterson’s heavy-handed tactics with players, their agents and their families.

Peterson acquired his nickname, King Carl, the old-fashioned way. We rolled over and gave him a kingdom. When he ushered in an era of winning after years of mediocrity, he treated the media as though his decisions and actions were above question. He became complacent and stale.

Scott Pioli is a human being. He’s capable of making the same mistakes as you, I or King Carl.

Sometimes people misidentify why they’re successful. Belichick and Pioli think the New England locker room is special partly because Belichick and the players have made the local media irrelevant. Belichick and Pioli believe in CIA-like secrets.

I’m sure there’s some value in all of it. But football isn’t all that hard to figure out. Find yourself a tough, talented quarterback who is willing to stand in the pocket and deliver the football under pressure, pray that he doesn’t get injured, and you’ll win a lot of games.

The Sixburgh Steelers won four titles with Terry Bradshaw and two with Ben Roethlisberger. They’ve had three different young coaches lead them to those six titles. John Elway took the Broncos to five Super Bowls and won two. Kurt Warner has played in three Super Bowls. Brett Favre played in two. Peyton Manning and Donovan McNabb win a lot of football games. Did I mention Joe Montana, Troy Aikman and Tom Brady?

In his first big decision as general manager of the Kansas City Chiefs, Scott Pioli traded the 34th pick in the draft for Matt Cassel, a backup in college and in the pros. Because New England slapped Cassel with the franchise tag, Clark Hunt is going to pay Cassel a lot of money in 2009 or give him a big-ticket, long-term contract.

Everyone pretty much agrees the move makes sense for the Chiefs. Pioli still needs to publicly explain it, and it’s our job to seek a detailed explanation. We shouldn’t accept a brief statement on a press release.

It is fun and fashionable to beat up on the media. In our arrogance, we have refused to adequately police, examine and reshape ourselves. We’re paying a heavy price for our failure. We’re losing credibility.

It’s in your best interest to demand better from us. Don’t be fooled into believing we should go away or act as a propaganda machine for some newly-elected, popular-in-comparison-to-Peterson (or Bush) leader.

Hammock Parties · 03-09-2009, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Mecca

That guy sucks hard.

You should just copy and paste this for every post.

MadMax · 03-09-2009, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by milkman

Don't tell me.

I didn't want Cassel.

I wanted Sanchez.

AMEN!

MadMax · 03-09-2009, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

I agree. He got a bargain in Cassel. Now he gets to find his next Brady in round 6. I'm confident we'll be taking a late round QB. I'll bet whoever it is gets some air time on ESPN or NFLN as well. Scott's done it twice now. He's going for the trifecta.

I admire your faith brother

Sweet Daddy Hate · 03-10-2009, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by milkman

Don't tell me.

I didn't want Cassel.

I wanted Sanchez.

I wanted a less-sharp version of Sanchez. Oh Wait! I got him!

B-but..but...he's actually played in the NFL! B-but...but...he was a Patriot!

B-but...but...Scott Pioli knows everything and can do no wrong!

Calcountry · 03-11-2009, 11:20 AM

lol, Rush Limbaugh is discussing this article right now.

BigChiefFan · 03-11-2009, 11:26 AM

I mentioned this in another thread but Chase Holbrook is a late round pick, who has big, upside potential.

Sweet Daddy Hate · 03-11-2009, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by bunnytrdr

lol, Rush Limbaugh is discussing this article right now.

Limbaugh stars in "Tommy":

"Fatass can you hear me"?
"Fatass can you hear me"?

"Hey fatass; you can you ****ing HEAR ME OR NOT"?

Ooops; he can't. And some people say Karma doesn't exist..

kc rush · 03-11-2009, 12:27 PM

Off The Couch: Whitlock, Jack Harry and KK Feud
greg

http://www.kcconfidential.com/?p=551#more-551

Jason Whitlock used his Sunday column to poke Kevin Kietzman, Jack Harry and even the dead-man-talking Neal Jones. As always, the OTC is happy to arbitrate this disagreement amongst the members of our local sports media.

“The New Don Fortune (Kevin Kietzman) expressed his disinterest in needing access and information from our New Carl Peterson, Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli. The New Don and his trusty sidekick, Mad Jack Harry, spent several minutes (last Wednesday) telling their listeners that we should trust Pioli implicitly and not waste emotion or energy worrying whether Pioli reveals himself, his plans or his players to the media.”
Jason Whitlock, Kansas City Star

GH: I miss this Jason Whitlock — the one petty enough to use his Sunday column to wallow in a literary bashing of his peers in the local media. Jack Harry chose to be just as petty when he used his Sunday-night soapbox (which is can’t miss TV for me) to fire back at the Round Mound of Clowns.

“I was prepared to offer a retort to an article authored by J. Whitlock, better known in the media as Pork Chop. I thought why give this guy any publicity and then I thought, ‘Why not?’”
Jack Harry, as he launched into a five minute attack on Whitlock, KSHB TV 41

GH: Would it have been more professional for Harry to ignore Whitlock’s barbs? Probably, but not nearly as entertaining.

“Having worked in sports-talk radio, I’m aware that the discipline requires a dramatic and healthy loosening of journalistic standards.”
Jason Whitlock, Kansas City Star

GH: Good thing sports-talk radio isn’t bound by those same stringent journalistic standards that prevented The Star from reporting for a month the publisher’s wife, Rhonda Chriss Lokeman’s DUI arrest (where she was found to be driving on only three tires). Read on.

“In news sure to rock the Kansas City Star, McClatchy Watch has learned Rhonda Lokeman, the controversial columnist who is married to Kansas City Star publisher Mark Zieman, was arrested for DUI in Kansas City, MO. The arrest occurred the first week in January and the newspaper has managed to keep her arrest a secret from KC Star readers — at least until now (February).”
McClatchy Watch

GH: Lokeman quietly retired after her arrest and word is that most Star edfitors and employees were just as shocked as readers to read of her three-tire arrest a month later in The Star.

“It was news to me. And as I discovered when I asked editors in the newsroom, nobody there knew about it there either, from the police/justice assistant city editor on up to editor and vice president Mike Fannin. Obviously, they know now.”
Derek Donovan, more than a month after Lokeman’s arrest, Reader Representative of The Kansas City Star

GH: Let’s assume Mark Zieman, the publisher of The Star, knew on January 1, 2009 his wife had been arrested. If true, Zieman withheld this information from the paper’s editor and newsroom for over a month – presumable simply because he is married to Lokeman. My question is how does Zieman even show his face to those Star employees who have based their careers on the stringent guidelines of journalism that William Rockhill Nelson founded the newspaper on back in 1860?Is The Star’s new motto; A Paper for the People – unless my wife gets arrested.

“I’ve received two emails now on Jason Whitlock saying I lacked journalistic integrity and Jack has received none.”
Kevin Kietzman, 810 AM

GH: Sounds eerily familiar to the Carl Peterson defense.

“The rotund one took a few shots at Kevin Kietzman and I in his daily rant column. He is questioning our journalistic integrity. That’s fine coming from anyone besides Jason Whitlock.”
Jack Harry, KSHB TV 41

GH: Let’s get this question of who of these three has or does not have journalistic integrity out of the way immediately – none of these TMZ lookalikes. These three have more in common with each other (and PowerCat.com’s Tim Fitzgerald) than they’ll admit.

“I subscribe to this paper to read the work of Joe Posnanski and Blair Kerkhoff. I must confess that I carefully cut out Whitlock’s column and use it to line my granddaughter’s birdcage on a daily basis.”
Jack Harry, KSHB TV 41

“Pork Chop thinks Kietzman and I are too soft on Chiefs’ General Manager, Scott Pioli. Obviously Whitlock is not in touch with reality nor does he have a pulse of what’s happening in this city.”
Jack Harry, KSHB TV 41

“(Bill Belichick) has brainwashed his players into believing the media are evil, incompetent and stirrers of chaos.”
Jason Whitlock, Kansas City Star

GH: I wonder why Belichick would think that of a columnist who refuses to produce collaborating quotes from management or players to confirm or deny an unnamed source’s damaging story like that of Brian Waters?

“I think there might be some sour grapes involving Whitlock and the Patriots. Whitlock wrote something that wasn’t very nice about a Patriots player on a piece of paper and then plastered it on the press box window trying to rile New England fans and he did!”
Jack Harry, on why he believes Whitlock has it in for Pioli, KSHB TV 41

GH: JW’s sign was hand-written and it read; “Bledsoe gay?” The Star suspended him for two weeks in 1998 but this incident continues to be his Jim Rome/Jim (Chris) Everett shadow.

“Unchallenged leaders are dictators and quickly turn unethical.”
Jason Whitlock, Kansas City Star

GH: Just who is it at The Star who is challenging the words JW is oozing out these days? Replace the word “leaders” with “journalists” in the sentence above and the message remains the same.

“Whitlock has made some cruel verbal attacks on radio and TV people in this town. Deep down he is envious of those in the electronic media. He wants to be on the air in the worst way.”
Jack Harry, KSHB TV 41

GH: I don’t think Pork Chop is envious of anyone besides Denzel. But he would like to get a local or satellite sports talk show to help revive Jeff George’s career.

“The bottom line is he is not good enough to get a fulltime gig in broadcasting and he knows it.”
Jack Harry, KSHB TV 41

GH: Yeah, it takes some real talent to get a gig in TV or radio in this town. Has Jack ever watched tapes of himself? Has he watched Len Dawson swallow his tongue trying to pronounce names with consecutive vowels? Are 610’s ratings above 2.0 in any demo yet? Hasn’t Karen Kornacki cashed a paycheck for the past 20 years? Whitlock’s problem isn’t his talent, it’s his personal insecurity and paranoia that have burned his broadcasting bridges.

“I’m the only one at the station who doesn’t have a computer on his desk. The people I work with are aware of that fact. If I need something I just go to them. …I have a computer at home but it isn’t set up.”
Len Dawson, explaining he doesn’t use email, The Star Magazine

GH: Dawson is most likely the highest-paid TV anchor on local television. Imagine doing your job w/o access to email, text messaging or the Internet. Dawson does other seniors a disservice for perpetuating the stereotype that they cannot/will not participate in a technical world. There is little question in my mind why Dawson’s Channel 9 sportscast is the one to skip.

“I find one of our local (sports talk radio) stations unlisten-Neal-able.”
Jason Whitlock, Kansas City Star

GH: Instead of taking offense at Whitlock’s slight, I am pretty sure Neal Jones was happy to just get a mention in The Star. Word is that Jones will be soon departing 610’s afternoon drive slot. The unknown but potentially talented 610 night-time host, Nick Wright, is being considered to replace unlisten-Neal-able.

“I don’t think it’s necessary to talk about the slap fight going on between one of our television anchors and our most self-promoting Kansas City Star columnist.”
Nick Wright, evening talk show host on 610 AM

GH: Unlike KK and Harry, Wright mentioned that he was receiving a deluge of emails concerning the Whitlock and Harry feud. He also could not resist weighing in on the topic.

“This is basically a guy who is still relevant sticking a fork in a guy who is a parody of his former self and whose career is spiraling. I don’t want to mention him by name. I don’t know how his family still lets him out of the house. Did I just talk about it?”
Nick Wright, evening talk show host on 610 AM

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03-08-2009, 08:16 AM
C-Mac Lurker Extraordinaire Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Wally World Casino cash: $-1096301	Whitlock- It’s OK to question Pioli and the Chiefs It’s OK to question Pioli and the Chiefs Wednesday afternoon, on my drive on I-70 to watch the Tigers and the Sooners tangle, I passed the time listening to sports-talk radio. I find one of our local stations unlisten-Neal-able, so you can assume which station and which show entertained me along the highway. And you can guess which host nearly made me drive off the highway. The New Don Fortune expressed his disinterest in needing access and information from our New Carl Peterson, Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli. The New Don and his trusty sidekick, Mad Jack Harry, spent several minutes telling their listeners that we should trust Pioli implicitly and not waste emotion or energy worrying whether Pioli reveals himself, his plans or his players to the media. Having worked in sports-talk radio, I’m aware the discipline requires a dramatic and healthy loosening of journalistic standards. But basic common sense and backbone are allowed and occasionally encouraged when hosting a radio show. Supporting the new regime does not equate to rejecting the primary (and redeeming) role of the media. It’s our job to acquire information and pass it along to you. Based on what we’ve seen from the Bill Belichick era in New England and our first two months with Pioli, gathering pertinent and enlightening information about the Chiefs is going to be rather difficult. The Patriots, under Belichick and Pioli, reached the conclusion that too much media access disrupts locker-room chemistry and undermines the voice of the head coach. In New England, Belichick has turned the Boston media into an easy-to-play foil for his players. He’s brainwashed his players into believing the media are evil, incompetent and stirrers of chaos. Obviously, we are not perfect. A collection of human beings cannot be flawless. There are instances when individual moments of incompetence make the media appear wicked or solely interested in controversy. But overall, we attempt to be a watchdog of those with power. When we fail to play that role, generally speaking, terrible things happen. The Iraq War is a worst-case scenario. We trusted our president implicitly, led the cheers when we declared war on Iraq and declined to demand answers to difficult questions. Hundreds of billions of dollars later, and with our economy in collapse, we now blame poor, minority homeowners for the fall of our society. I apologize. I digress. Let me give you a worst-case scenario in the sports world. If, in an attempt to duplicate New England’s three-Super Bowls dynasty, we neglect our journalistic, democracy-ensuring duty to challenge Pioli, there’s a far better chance that he replicates Carl Peterson’s Kansas City era than Belichick’s New England one. Unchallenged leaders are dictators and quickly turn unethical. For years, Kevin Kietzman and Jack Harry whined on radio that Peterson, in attempts to have them fired, harassed their former television bosses. Kietzman and Harry complained about Peterson’s heavy-handed tactics with players, their agents and their families. Peterson acquired his nickname, King Carl, the old-fashioned way. We rolled over and gave him a kingdom. When he ushered in an era of winning after years of mediocrity, he treated the media as though his decisions and actions were above question. He became complacent and stale. Scott Pioli is a human being. He’s capable of making the same mistakes as you, I or King Carl. Sometimes people misidentify why they’re successful. Belichick and Pioli think the New England locker room is special partly because Belichick and the players have made the local media irrelevant. Belichick and Pioli believe in CIA-like secrets. I’m sure there’s some value in all of it. But football isn’t all that hard to figure out. Find yourself a tough, talented quarterback who is willing to stand in the pocket and deliver the football under pressure, pray that he doesn’t get injured, and you’ll win a lot of games. The Sixburgh Steelers won four titles with Terry Bradshaw and two with Ben Roethlisberger. They’ve had three different young coaches lead them to those six titles. John Elway took the Broncos to five Super Bowls and won two. Kurt Warner has played in three Super Bowls. Brett Favre played in two. Peyton Manning and Donovan McNabb win a lot of football games. Did I mention Joe Montana, Troy Aikman and Tom Brady? In his first big decision as general manager of the Kansas City Chiefs, Scott Pioli traded the 34th pick in the draft for Matt Cassel, a backup in college and in the pros. Because New England slapped Cassel with the franchise tag, Clark Hunt is going to pay Cassel a lot of money in 2009 or give him a big-ticket, long-term contract. Everyone pretty much agrees the move makes sense for the Chiefs. Pioli still needs to publicly explain it, and it’s our job to seek a detailed explanation. We shouldn’t accept a brief statement on a press release. It is fun and fashionable to beat up on the media. In our arrogance, we have refused to adequately police, examine and reshape ourselves. We’re paying a heavy price for our failure. We’re losing credibility. It’s in your best interest to demand better from us. Don’t be fooled into believing we should go away or act as a propaganda machine for some newly-elected, popular-in-comparison-to-Peterson (or Bush) leader.
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kc rush Blah Blah Blah Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: In front of the computer. Casino cash: $2009559	Off The Couch: Whitlock, Jack Harry and KK Feud greg http://www.kcconfidential.com/?p=551#more-551 Jason Whitlock used his Sunday column to poke Kevin Kietzman, Jack Harry and even the dead-man-talking Neal Jones. As always, the OTC is happy to arbitrate this disagreement amongst the members of our local sports media. “The New Don Fortune (Kevin Kietzman) expressed his disinterest in needing access and information from our New Carl Peterson, Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli. The New Don and his trusty sidekick, Mad Jack Harry, spent several minutes (last Wednesday) telling their listeners that we should trust Pioli implicitly and not waste emotion or energy worrying whether Pioli reveals himself, his plans or his players to the media.” Jason Whitlock, Kansas City Star GH: I miss this Jason Whitlock — the one petty enough to use his Sunday column to wallow in a literary bashing of his peers in the local media. Jack Harry chose to be just as petty when he used his Sunday-night soapbox (which is can’t miss TV for me) to fire back at the Round Mound of Clowns. “I was prepared to offer a retort to an article authored by J. Whitlock, better known in the media as Pork Chop. I thought why give this guy any publicity and then I thought, ‘Why not?’” Jack Harry, as he launched into a five minute attack on Whitlock, KSHB TV 41 GH: Would it have been more professional for Harry to ignore Whitlock’s barbs? Probably, but not nearly as entertaining. “Having worked in sports-talk radio, I’m aware that the discipline requires a dramatic and healthy loosening of journalistic standards.” Jason Whitlock, Kansas City Star GH: Good thing sports-talk radio isn’t bound by those same stringent journalistic standards that prevented The Star from reporting for a month the publisher’s wife, Rhonda Chriss Lokeman’s DUI arrest (where she was found to be driving on only three tires). Read on. “In news sure to rock the Kansas City Star, McClatchy Watch has learned Rhonda Lokeman, the controversial columnist who is married to Kansas City Star publisher Mark Zieman, was arrested for DUI in Kansas City, MO. The arrest occurred the first week in January and the newspaper has managed to keep her arrest a secret from KC Star readers — at least until now (February).” McClatchy Watch GH: Lokeman quietly retired after her arrest and word is that most Star edfitors and employees were just as shocked as readers to read of her three-tire arrest a month later in The Star. “It was news to me. And as I discovered when I asked editors in the newsroom, nobody there knew about it there either, from the police/justice assistant city editor on up to editor and vice president Mike Fannin. Obviously, they know now.” Derek Donovan, more than a month after Lokeman’s arrest, Reader Representative of The Kansas City Star GH: Let’s assume Mark Zieman, the publisher of The Star, knew on January 1, 2009 his wife had been arrested. If true, Zieman withheld this information from the paper’s editor and newsroom for over a month – presumable simply because he is married to Lokeman. My question is how does Zieman even show his face to those Star employees who have based their careers on the stringent guidelines of journalism that William Rockhill Nelson founded the newspaper on back in 1860?Is The Star’s new motto; A Paper for the People – unless my wife gets arrested. “I’ve received two emails now on Jason Whitlock saying I lacked journalistic integrity and Jack has received none.” Kevin Kietzman, 810 AM GH: Sounds eerily familiar to the Carl Peterson defense. “The rotund one took a few shots at Kevin Kietzman and I in his daily rant column. He is questioning our journalistic integrity. That’s fine coming from anyone besides Jason Whitlock.” Jack Harry, KSHB TV 41 GH: Let’s get this question of who of these three has or does not have journalistic integrity out of the way immediately – none of these TMZ lookalikes. These three have more in common with each other (and PowerCat.com’s Tim Fitzgerald) than they’ll admit. “I subscribe to this paper to read the work of Joe Posnanski and Blair Kerkhoff. I must confess that I carefully cut out Whitlock’s column and use it to line my granddaughter’s birdcage on a daily basis.” Jack Harry, KSHB TV 41 “Pork Chop thinks Kietzman and I are too soft on Chiefs’ General Manager, Scott Pioli. Obviously Whitlock is not in touch with reality nor does he have a pulse of what’s happening in this city.” Jack Harry, KSHB TV 41 “(Bill Belichick) has brainwashed his players into believing the media are evil, incompetent and stirrers of chaos.” Jason Whitlock, Kansas City Star GH: I wonder why Belichick would think that of a columnist who refuses to produce collaborating quotes from management or players to confirm or deny an unnamed source’s damaging story like that of Brian Waters? “I think there might be some sour grapes involving Whitlock and the Patriots. Whitlock wrote something that wasn’t very nice about a Patriots player on a piece of paper and then plastered it on the press box window trying to rile New England fans and he did!” Jack Harry, on why he believes Whitlock has it in for Pioli, KSHB TV 41 GH: JW’s sign was hand-written and it read; “Bledsoe gay?” The Star suspended him for two weeks in 1998 but this incident continues to be his Jim Rome/Jim (Chris) Everett shadow. “Unchallenged leaders are dictators and quickly turn unethical.” Jason Whitlock, Kansas City Star GH: Just who is it at The Star who is challenging the words JW is oozing out these days? Replace the word “leaders” with “journalists” in the sentence above and the message remains the same. “Whitlock has made some cruel verbal attacks on radio and TV people in this town. Deep down he is envious of those in the electronic media. He wants to be on the air in the worst way.” Jack Harry, KSHB TV 41 GH: I don’t think Pork Chop is envious of anyone besides Denzel. But he would like to get a local or satellite sports talk show to help revive Jeff George’s career. “The bottom line is he is not good enough to get a fulltime gig in broadcasting and he knows it.” Jack Harry, KSHB TV 41 GH: Yeah, it takes some real talent to get a gig in TV or radio in this town. Has Jack ever watched tapes of himself? Has he watched Len Dawson swallow his tongue trying to pronounce names with consecutive vowels? Are 610’s ratings above 2.0 in any demo yet? Hasn’t Karen Kornacki cashed a paycheck for the past 20 years? Whitlock’s problem isn’t his talent, it’s his personal insecurity and paranoia that have burned his broadcasting bridges. “I’m the only one at the station who doesn’t have a computer on his desk. The people I work with are aware of that fact. If I need something I just go to them. …I have a computer at home but it isn’t set up.” Len Dawson, explaining he doesn’t use email, The Star Magazine GH: Dawson is most likely the highest-paid TV anchor on local television. Imagine doing your job w/o access to email, text messaging or the Internet. Dawson does other seniors a disservice for perpetuating the stereotype that they cannot/will not participate in a technical world. There is little question in my mind why Dawson’s Channel 9 sportscast is the one to skip. “I find one of our local (sports talk radio) stations unlisten-Neal-able.” Jason Whitlock, Kansas City Star GH: Instead of taking offense at Whitlock’s slight, I am pretty sure Neal Jones was happy to just get a mention in The Star. Word is that Jones will be soon departing 610’s afternoon drive slot. The unknown but potentially talented 610 night-time host, Nick Wright, is being considered to replace unlisten-Neal-able. “I don’t think it’s necessary to talk about the slap fight going on between one of our television anchors and our most self-promoting Kansas City Star columnist.” Nick Wright, evening talk show host on 610 AM GH: Unlike KK and Harry, Wright mentioned that he was receiving a deluge of emails concerning the Whitlock and Harry feud. He also could not resist weighing in on the topic. “This is basically a guy who is still relevant sticking a fork in a guy who is a parody of his former self and whose career is spiraling. I don’t want to mention him by name. I don’t know how his family still lets him out of the house. Did I just talk about it?” Nick Wright, evening talk show host on 610 AM [email protected]
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