Photo by Ken Stone. The decision comes after an ultimatum from San Diego councilmember and revelations about the firms federal COVID-19 relief loan. They're directly telling people how to go-around the closure, which was in place to prevent large gatherings and the spread of COVID. OOPS! Judge Ronald Frazier will hear KUSI lawyers Friday in their effort to avert a trial in 3-year-old case. Has it always been like this (and I'm now only barely starting to find out), or no? MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY. Yesterday at 8:21 PM. KUSI also carried water for the Comprehensive Pension Reform campaign by pointing out the specific locations of signature-gathering sites. But its your ball and you can do with them what you want. However, they have also published misinformation such as this MedRxiv Study: Hydroxychloroquine and zinc treatments increased the COVID survival rate by almost three times. They have always had a right wing slant. Scripps TV Station Group also operates KZSD 41, http://www.aztecasd.com/, a low power station serving as the local affiliate for the Azteca TV Network. There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Eugene Hampton you sir are out of here! It included the question: Did you read any part of this (manual) at any time while at the station? Support cancer research by calling 1-800-963-4673 OR by texting "KIDS" to 78-58-33. Share. The daily right-leaning bias would be nothing but funny if folks didnt accidentally arrive at their evening broadcast, if only because it airs before TMZ on TV. We just have to do our best to win an argument based on ideas and facts. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Political Strategist Julio Rivera joined KUSIs Logan Byrnes to discuss the event and its political significance. You enjoyed calling attention to your lawsuit through your social media, havent you? And why she didnt seek a job outside San Diego. Ad-Free Sign up Smirking, Martinez asked Zomorodi to try it out with him. // pattern, adding to the array. Eugene, you okay? If the pension reform infomercial meets the legal definition of a campaign contribution is a matter better left to the lawyers, but KUSIs role as the free advertising network and media attack dog for the Republican Party is as brazen as it is unethical. Days ago, when the beach parking lot closures were announced, a new reporter who I don't know but she's blonde and relatively new, announced WHERE people can park for Torrey Pines, because that parking area isn't a state closure. People in the community understand what its like to be undervalued and underpaid in 2023, she said. /* If html does not have either class, do not show lazy loaded images. Generally, the news is not always factual, primarily when related to Covid-19, and holds a right-leaning bias. Black celebrity fathers were overrepresented in the segment, said San Diego NAACP President Francine Maxwell in a statement Tuesday. KUSI is owned and operated by Channel 51 of San Diego, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of McKinnon Broadcasting. *An earlier version of this report gave the wrong station affiliation for Rory Devine. "Sometimes a great notion" Televisa also operates XEWT 12 Tu Canal (Spanish Language) in this market. The statement said KUSI asked 101.5 KGB to offer an apology on KUSI and officials at KGB declined. For anyone who watched the hour and a half long CPR commercial (and I did), it would be impossible to draw any other conclusion. And Laurel testified that Maas had lost weight since leaving KUSI. in under an hour on 103.7 KSON. Are San Diego County institutions, and people in positions of trust, living up to their duties, their promises, the law and the expectations of the public? Azcrraga became the CEO of Grupo Televisa after the death of his father in 1997. But please not Gloria or some other tired party hack. Quotation [11] = "'Scott Jones, whose FTVLive.com Web site broke the story' - LA Daily News" Laurel and her lawyers say KUSI illegally hacked her personal email account and printed out private information, including chats with her husband. You guys have to know And later, her voice rising, Maas proclaimed her mission. And I chose not to do that, she said. // To add more quotations, continue with the If approved by the CPUC, monthly electric bills for typical residential customers would increase $8.45 per month and natural gas bills would go up $9.16. it wasnt the opinion. Kimmel an heiress to August C. Meyer, Sr., who bought the TV station and its two radio stations in the 1960s has also backed causes linked to the billionaire Koch brothers of Kansas by way of her familys charitable foundation. Country: USA I can't trust them to report news without their personal opinion or bias. KUSI News San Diego's More Local News Station. Local TV audiences were down across every key time slot and across all networks in 2012. the articles quotes and analysis and instead uses his In a brief redirect, Maas attorney Josh Pang said the deposition passage wasnt read in its entirety. Usually. Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic The OB Rag IS a progressive blog site. Im so tired of the info-babes as well but they seem to be disappearing for these mini-info-babes that arent 25 years old and must have graduated last week from an online communications college -:). The last hour Wednesday saw both sides quiz former KUSI anchor Anna Laurel who now works for CBS8 (Maas station before KUSI). In 2022, they continue to promote Covid-19 misinformation. Folks. Despite a $250,000 salary offer from the Raleigh station to stay put, Laurel wanted to return to California. The company is headed by billionaire Emilio Azcrraga Jean. } Why do we have to wait so long? Freaks, Uppity Women & Politicos? She said other women in the newsroom share similar stories asserting that former KUSI reporter Sasha Foo went 13 years without a raise. We are looking elsewhere for balanced local news. It was uncomfortable watching him and Lauren get into it. img#wpstats{display:none} Since youre just finding out about the way they lean. These sources are generally trustworthy for information but may require further investigation. Follow. In addition to 10 broadcast stations in major media markets, Comcast owns 19 cable channels, nearly two dozen regional networks, along with the Telemundo network and station group. Sadie, would still love to know your thoughts as we both would like to know more. Laurel believes the station is trying to intimidate her because they believe she is going to testify on behalf of Maas in her case against KUSI. And relied on friends and family. } Talk to your Koch brother friends, perhaps they can cut us a cool million now and then. Luck, who passed away from cancer last weekend at age 72, counted on that. As a result, KUSI has decided to no longer provide a platform for the KGB - DSC Show, the statement said. Is there any legitimate news channel here besides NPR? Their KPBS Roundtable is also worth watching. I expected more from you. Judge Signals KUSI-TV Will Face Jury in Sandra Maas' Pay-Equity, Bias Which Presidential Candidate Will You Support in 2020? That lawsuit is finally playing out in court and another former Anchor is accusing the station of hacking into her personal email. As the guy behind FTVLive, I feel a need to respond to a couple of things here. There is, for instance, a significant difference of opinion on the role of law enforcement thats largely being fought out in the courts. The station, more than ever, exists as part of a larger funding strategy to defeat Democrats and impose conservative ideology on San Diegans and that is the reason that Democratic politicians and left-leaning organizations are hesitant about appearing on KUSI. It is no wonder the OB Rag has such limited appeal it is edited by hypocrites and ignorant tools. The leanings easiest to spot are commercial biases, often in the form of infomercials wherein messages crafted by advertisers are packaged as news. After that, she served as both an anchor and reporter in Roswell, El Paso, NM, TX . The McKinnon family, including their spouses, has donated over $150,000 to Republican candidates and committees, over half of which into the pockets of San Diego congressmen and the SDGOP. Filtered Search, Enter your email address to subscribe to MBFC and receive notifications of new posts by email. Over the past few years, Televisa has been making inroads into telephone and internet services. Why not start a petition to Draft Bill Walton for mayor of San Diego ? community serving the whole of the San Diego. (Kristian Carreon / For The San Diego Union-Tribune), Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Blakespear holds narrow lead over Gunderson in state Senate race, Biden plans San Diego County visit to campaign for Levin in 49th Congressional race, County settles lawsuit over in-custody death for $1.35 million, Girls dream up engineering solutions to hack human colonization of Mars, Murder suspect arrested in Central America pleads not guilty in 2016 Allied Gardens homicide, Man sentenced to 7 years in prison for murder of woman on Carlsbad hiking trail, Is your utility bill going to get even higher? Looking beyond the smiling faces, the times when the TV stations deviate from the norm can be good indicators of debate between different interests in San Diego. Oppose them? Wake up. if (typeof window.addthis !== 'undefined') { Over the last year, weve seen KUSI pride itself on its hard-hitting investigations into the personal lives and relationships of appointed public servants and city employees who share nothing but similar space within the crosshairs of Tony Krvaric. Laurel said she didnt get to see Maas during her farewell in June 2019 but would stay in touch, follow Maas on social media and meet her for walks at Torrey Pines beach. Its happy, rappy and dont-be-crappy whenever possible. This lawsuit is part of building your brand as a champion of womens rights. */ We also serve the various counties, plus info concerning our sister city Tijuana MX in the sharing of information, opinion and events to bring us closer together in the richness & diversity that makes us Americas finest city The company currently owns twenty-one television stations in sixteen markets; eleven ABC affiliates, three NBC affiliates, five Azteca Amrica affiliates, one My Network TVaffiliate and one independent affiliate. Im not saying your station is bad and doesnt treat many of the employees fairly, nor covers the news fairly. Remember They have to be the most outdated news.station in San Diego. This years research doesnt bode particularly well for the future power of broadcast TV news: While the first and hardest-hit industry, newspapers, remains in the spotlight, local TV finds itself newly vulnerable. Michael McKinnon currently serves as Station Manager. It has been a helluva ride. I grew up in San Diego and have recently returned to take care of my Mom. The associated website is KUSI.com which covers local news, sports, weather, and crime reporting. 'jetpack-lazy-images-js-enabled' for (i = 0; i < window.addthis_layers_tools.length; i++) { Regardless, last night, KUSI threw moon-sized softball questions to Mayor Sanders, San Diego City Councilmen Carl DeMaio and Kevin Faulconer, Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, San Diego County Taxpayers Association chief Lani Lutar, and failed San Diego City Council candidate April Boling. Enter address: This website, like most media sites, uses small files called cookies to anonymously customize the advertising that you see. Weve all had our turns trying to respond to our libertarian RB, but he finally just gave us the verbal middle digit and thats it. var first_load_interval_id = setInterval(function () { She eventually surrendered to Cohen, coming to work at KUSI in September 2018 for a multiyear contract at $150,000 a year. (Her attorney Josh Gruenberg showed his temper once as well.). Beyond that the three main forms of biasmeans by which media hope to influence opinionsare, as defined in Wikipedia: Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky have advanced a concept called the propaganda model explaining how propaganda and systemic biases function in mass media. KUSI Labels Former Anchor as a "Secret Agent" FTVLive 16 late June early July 1971, Saturday Rally to Help Grocery Workers Avoid Strike, Restaurant Review: Dennys I Hardly Knew Ye, Here Is a Better Idea: Bill Walton for Mayor, Poll Shows Mayor Gloria Vulnerable in Re-Election Bid, Preservation Action Alert: San Diego Moves to Implement SB 10. No pearls shall be clutched. Turco files was the only good segment on that show, Coleman was funny. First off, Laurel is correct in saying, a lot of people dont like KUSI. FTVLive hears from a number of current and former employees at the station and we have nor would we ever reveal who those people are. After Zomorodi skeptically sniffed and even licked an iPad, it was revealed that the Virtual Sip app was, yes, an April Fools prank. Filed Under: Business, Columns, Encore, Media, Politics, The Starting Line, Who Runs San Diego? Doug is a cancer survivor (sans vocal chords) and lives in North Park. KUSI-TV (channel 51) is an independent television station in San Diego, California, United States. Funded by / Ownership They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appealing to emotion or stereotypes) to favor conservative causes. KUSI News (@kusinews) is on Instagram KUSI will be contacting our NAACP chapter and its president to further discuss this incident.. Officials with the The DSC Show did not respond to The San Diego Union-Tribunes request for comment Wednesday. community serving the whole of the San Diego. None-the-less, made for TV events highlighting (mostly monied) interests do get regular coverage. This trope continued in the Jim Crow era, when Black men were regularly lynched on the excuse of sexual advances toward White women, often invented or imagined. It is the sole property of locally based McKinnon Broadcasting Company. Who Runs San Diego? - Local Broadcast TV News Operations Quotation[3] = "'The TV Blogger who broke the news.' - Gawker"; Please reload the page and try again. The option presented to liberals is often to appear pre-taped and subject to editorialized bookends from the stations anchors, as was the option presented to Labor Council Secretary-Treasurer Lorena Gonzalez for the pension telethon. Sandra Maas Anger Flares Against KUSI Lawyer: Why Are You Rolling Your Eyes?. Unlike their big brethren in New York, grinding out right wing noise is not their top priority; smiling is. Conservative Political Action Conference begins in Washington, March 1 To read last weeks introduction to this series, go here.The Womans Democratic Club mission is to promote Democratic Party principles including equality of opportunity, a level playing field, and fair and equal treatment for all. KUSI 51 San Diegos News Channel http://www.kusi.com/ Owner: McKinnon Broadcasting. Relevant to the topic, Colemans right on this issue, IMO, and Gormlies right about KUSI. Read our profile on the United States government and media. youre doing the gods work when a nutbag like Eugene ignores SANDAG leaders have denied sub-committee representation to El Cajon, East County's largest city. // Set up the quotations to be shown, below. Los Angeles-based Consumer Watchdog says trial court erred in dismissing claims early this year. Stories based on the odds and ends leaking out of the various lawsuits against the San Diego Police Department are one example. Maxwell said in a telephone interview Wednesday that when she first received screenshots about the segment around Tuesday around 9 a.m., she was so surprised by the content she wondered if it was a prank. Scan this QR code to download the app now. I'd love to know the answer either way Geoff! KUSI only success is in making the local Fox News team look like polished professionals. The associated website is KUSI.com which covers local news, sports, weather, and crime reporting. At least the calf cant talk. On cross examination, KUSI lawyer Marisa Janine-Page raised doubts about Laurels earlier testimony that she had never seen a KUSI employee handbook. None of the commercial TV channels do so. KUSI News - Judge rules that Conservative radio host Larry | Facebook She has worked in news since the late 1990s and joined KUSI in San Diego, CA. if(window.ImageLoader) window.ImageLoader.bootstrap({}, document);Squarespace.afterBodyLoad(Y); KUSI Labels Former Anchor as a "Secret Agent", FTVLive told you that former KUSI Anchor Sandra Maas was suing the station for $10 million dollars, Times of San Diego writes that KUSI is calling former news anchor. maybe the pot should sit down with the kettle and review the ingredients were all eating for dinner. Your consistant shameless BIAS and apparent ignorance of your own favoritism as you point your finger at others makes you look the fool. Country: USA Quotation [15] = " 'FTVLive Reported the Story First'- NY Times" KUSI News 9 51 is the source for San Diego news, weather, sports, and PPR serving Chula Vista, Oceanside, El Cajon, Poway, National City, Downtown San Diego, Escondido and Pacific Beach // ====================================== Now, working in healthcare has sort of biased me, but I've noticed that Dan and some of the new reporters are very vocal about their biased opinions of re-opening, protests, and masks infringing on their rights. Pang said Laurel answered, I dont think so.. If KUSI feels that the FTVLive stories about their station and how its run are disparaging maybe they need to look at how they run their station. - Greta Van Susteren" I finally explained to her that He is just a blustery, loud mouth politician that likes to hear himself talk. At that point the Its our sandbox rule kicks in. And why will they not come out and say why theyre afraid of the ballot measure itself?, The DeMaio plan proposes to save $1.2 billion by 2040, will your plan do that?. Fitzgerald noted that Laurel signed a contract that stipulated she had received and reviewed the policy handbook and in her deposition said she was provided a copy. All props and hoorahs to the RAG. Gonzalez offered to do it live, but that would have ruined the KUSIs pre-determined script. KNSD 7/39 NBC San Diego (NBC owned affiliate) http://www.nbcsandiego.com/ NBC is part of Comcast, the largest broadcasting and cable company in the world by revenue, and the largest cable company and home Internet service provider in the United States. Facebook. I mean, literally fit in city hall. People concerned about the environment join lockstep with those pursuing global socialism, some hold both views, foolishly not seeing that by improving living standards in third world nations, which the UN and the IPCCs companion programs are doing providing clean drinking water, paved roads, hospitals, electricity, etc, to billions all told- youre industrializing them and improving infant mortality rates. // Free for all; but please leave in this header. Column will resume in its regular role and format on Thursday. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Isnt this silly? Fight it or get used to it. Whoever gets through the DMV censors wins & gets to wear the plates. Are you surprised you didnt get any job offers (after) suing your former employer? Their 1988 book on the subject (Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media) discussed their views about how populations are manipulated and how consent for economic, social and political policies is manufactured in the public mind. Surprised to see Amezcua (Former Patriot ultra right wing radio host in LA) as KUSI spokeshole on a fluff morning show. Whats more, the topics people go there for mostweather and breaking news (and to a lesser extent traffic)are ripe for replacement by any number of web- and mobile-based outlets. She was asked about her lack of awards (as compared to former co-anchor Allen Denton) or why she didnt use an agent. I can't take it anymore. Back to cleaning my guns. The camp Walton proposes sounds Vol. // Do not change anything below this line The United States has ushered in a new age of robber barons and Hearstian journalism. SAN DIEGO (KUSI) The Conservative Political Action Conference is the largest fathering of conservatives in the world. When I was younger and I lived with my parents I watched KUSI, but shortly after I moved out I stopped because I couldn't stand Dan Plante interjecting his little editorials between news segments. Yes, people have supported me. KUSI.com | San Diego News | Weather | ASR | PPR | GMSD - KUSI News Quotation[2] = "'The story first broke on FTVLive.com' - AP"; (Click here for more details). Quotation [13] = " '(FTVLive) is a Mad Blogger'- Piers Morgan" What Im seeking in this lawsuit is to expose McKinnon Broadcasting Co. for what it is they are not a friend of women. 25 comments, By Jason Everitt / Two Cathedrals / September 16, 2011. TV agents often tell its clients heading there for a job interview to make sure that they said that their favorite football team is the Dallas Cowboys. And GW alarmists left to say we told you so! with the only real benefit they got out of it a little political capital taking shots at the right. With a history that goes back over four decades, our point of view shouldnt be much of a surprise. Smart Street Lights Favor them? @ALaurelNews was on stand in afternoon. Dude wtf is up with Dave Scott in general. Televisa also holds an interest in U.S. Spanish-language media company Univision Communications. Jan. 11, 2019 2 PM PT. var Quotation=new Array() // do not change this! Ken Fitzgerald, lead lawyer for KUSI-TV, has a relaxed, measured style of cross examination almost serene. That KUSI acts as a mouthpiece for the SDGOP and Republican politicians and candidates across the region is no earth-shattering conclusion. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Quotation[6] = "'The site that everyone that works in TV News turns to' - NPR "; The official subreddit for San Diego California, "America's Finest City", were a rapidly growing (over 300,000 strong!) Detailed Report My apologies to our regular contrarian commenters: were sure that your viewpoints are sincere and we respect your right to express them.