In case the word “stabbing” left you unsure if the man who bled to death in the parking lot of a local Motel had a really bad headache that even Excedrine couldn’t help, CBS has a very helpful graphic to go with the story.
Also, I like the last line: “Police say the suspect was an acquaintance of the victim.” Not sure if this means they were poker buddies or if it’s just because his knife was acquainted with the victim’s body. Yeah, some of my friends are total jerks too.
I had never seen the cult classic “The Wicker Man,” which has been in rotation on IFC, until last night. The resemblance between KCRA’s solid reporter Tom Duhain and Ed Woodward’s Christian martyr Sgt. Neil Howie is too great to pass without comment on The Sac Rag. As you can see in the picture, however, Duhain’s standard expression is the smile of the ultimate news professional, and I don’t think Woodward cracks a smile once (who can blame him, with all those filthy heathens, right?).
I found this piece from today’s Sac Bee extremely disturbing. Who the hell blogs from their car while racing a train?
While on the one hand I can appreciate the fact that the writer is one bad-ax-muther-trucker for being able to blog while he’s fighting the maniacs on Highway 50, to blog while driving is maniacal as well. Who authorized that story anyway? No wonder Sacramento has such a bad reputation when it comes to driving ability, or really, with anything to do with a motor vehicle.
This story will only promote bad habits on the road. I DEMAND that the Sac Bee publish a retraction to this story. They should also publicly hail the Sac Rag as the most trusted name in fair and balanced reporting in Sacramento in a full page ad in the Lifestyle section. WHO’S WITH ME?
I like to poke fun at News10.net. It’s no secret. I also like to reference their Web site a lot, too. I realized today that props need to be handed out. That is, I finally figured out that, while often times typo laden and haphazard, their internet news producer puts out some great “news” and deserves some Sac Rag love. Her name is Elizabeth Bishop. Along with a few other folks, it appears that she writes the copy for the Web site and presumably (because, you know, who watches News10?) provides a different angle than what you would get watching News10 on the TV.
Continue reading “News10.net’s straight shooter”
I caught a newscast with Sac’s newest reporter/anchor Tony Lopez on… it must have been Sunday? Man the days just run together. Anyway has anybody else seen this guy? He’s great in that sarcastic local news anchor role. It made me remember that one of my primary goals with Sac Rag was to gossip about our fabulous local news people: picking up on the belligerence of a Miguel Almaguer, sighting of a Jennifer Whitney on the street, catching alumns when they get picked up by the big networks (ever notice how much Fox loves them some Sacto poaching? Adam Housley and Kiran Chetry are all over the F&B).
Well, moving on… Did anybody else see the head-to-head 50 year anniversary specials on KCRA and News10 on Saturday night? One thing it proved to me is that local news shows see horrific local tragedies and think it’s their time to shine. The parade of memorable moments from both stations seemed more like a “Here’s to the worst things you’ve lived through” marathon. But as usual, with a local angle. For example, here is News10’s page dedicated to its top stories of the 70s and 80s. Explosions, crashes, disasters, murder, and Elvis. One of the most horrifying segments my wife and I witnessed was the capture of a kidnapper, caught on tape by News10. During the report, police on the scene discovered, in real time, another missing girl in a cardboard box in the creep’s trunk. Live on the TV news!
Continue reading “50 Years of Horror”
Graswich reports that Jennifer Smith got demoted by News10.
This is one of many MANY changes for News10. They are hiring for a multitude of positions. Moving an icon like Smith is just another domino in what looks to be a massive overhaul.
Smith will land on her feet, perhaps with one of the other two stations (Fox40 doesn’t count, nor will it likely ever). But this is a damn curious move, and one that will most likely leave News10 with egg on their face.
The local version of Maury and Connie, KCRA’s Dave Walker and Lois Hart are stepping down from the 11 p.m. news later this year. Dave and Lois are definitely my favorite local broadcasting team (can you say, If you don’t like that, you don’t like local sports radio idiots?) and will be sorely missed in the CoolDMZ household, where the flirtatious “active adult” couple was a heartwarming part of the nightly local news gathering ritual. Although at their age, it was pretty obvious that most nights they needed to be in bed by 11.
They will be replaced at 11 by Edie Lambert and John Alston, who are competent newspeople but will have the chemistry of a pair of candlesticks. What good is hokey local news (lokey news? hokal news?) without a cute old married couple telling you about the Asparagus Festival?
Leave it to the crack reporting team at News10 to follow one of the coolest, craziest nights of TV with a lame “news” piece about one of my least favorite Sacramento “news” topics: the Maloof brothers.
If you happen to live under the docks or were watching American Idol last night, the season finales of Lost and Alias did not kick your ass last night like they did mine (Lost moreso, but the last 15 seconds of Alias were worth watching the entire mostly disappointing season). So how does News10 follow up that ass-whoopin’?
<paraphrase>You’re probably asking yourself, What’s up with the Maloofs, we haven’t heard from them since their team sucked ass again in the playoffs! Well, since they weren’t busting down our door for an interview like most sports franchise owners, we decided to track them down for an interview in…of all places…Las Vegas!</paraphrase>
“This just in: the piling on of ridiculous amounts of wealth from shady enterprises has a local angle!” Ugh. What are we gonna do, not bow at their altar just because the season is over? If Sacramento stops sucking at the greasy, gin-soaked teat of the Maloof Family Cultural Enslavement and Money Gathering Machine, it won’t be soon enough.
Finally, what we’ve all been waiting for: the launch of Your Cowtown. For weeks Sacramentans have wondered what online wonders the new site would present, then we played the cow-tipping game until we were masters (though I could never get past 1 cow until it timed out. What the dealio?). Now we have the full site, and all our questions are answered. In what is absolutely the biggest shocker since the Webber trade, the site is brought to us by…the Maloofs? KCRA? the Money Store? Sony? Sorry, it’s Crystal Dairy!
The site features the classic “Cow Tippin” game, a link out to Crystal Cream & Butter Company’s site, a tool for getting home delivery of dairy products (welcome to the 1950s!), a retail locator, and the two strangest things I’ve seen in a long time: a call for “columnists” (on a dairy producer’s site?) and a “Create a Blog” feature which is actually just a guestbook. What’s next, a screen of brain-hemorrage inducing dancing cows?
Don’t get me wrong: I loves me some Crystal products. For your money, Crystal ice cream is the way to go, unless you want high-quality ice cream in nice-looking packaging that doesn’t fall apart when touched. But seriously. Great milk, top-notch. And now a great website to boot!
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