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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

What Was WBOC Thinking?

Last night WBOC was LIVE at the Mayor's State of the City Address. While I sat with some anticipation hoping to hear what the MAYOR had to say, the 6PM broadcast gave very little detail.

At 7 PM things got even worse. While we all know they had footage of the Mayor's speech, they instead chose too run a brief interview with a gentleman who has only lived in Salisbury for seven months and he stated he felt perfectly safe in Salisbury.

They then went on with an interview with Councilman Gary Comegys. You know, the guy who ran against Jim Ireton and lost. Gary gave him a grade of  "C" as far as the Mayors performance so far.

Look, I'm all about calling Mayor Ireton out if we feel he's out of line. However, WBOC never even gave the Mayor a chance. They used others to shoot him down with yet another personal agenda. Has Ireton cut WBOC off, like he's done with the Daily Times?

Nevertheless, it truly puzzles me as to why they would spend so much time and money going LIVE with two broadcasts and never once actually cover the Mayor and or what his speech had to say.

And they call themselves Journalists? I'd say its more about their own message and NOT what is really said and done.

2 comments:

Bill D. said...

because he's a mayor in Maryland not Delaware.

A.Adams said...

I stopped listening after his statement, "I don't like Tea-Partiers." What kind of politician uses a public forum to blatantly insult part of their constituency? I'm not even in the Tea-Party and I thought that was dumb. It doesn't say much for his character or his judgment; I mean if he doesn't have the sense not to blurt out comments like that in public, can you imagine what he says in private? Yikes.