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senseandsensibility Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 11:09 PM
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KRON-TV (San Francisco) just bashed Cindy
Edited on Wed Aug-17-05 11:12 PM by senseandsensibility
I just watched the local news. KRON-TV in San Francisco covered the VACAVILLE vigil, as in Cindy's hometown. The entire report was slanted with many anti-Cindy demonstrators sympathetically interviewed. Worse was the biased subjective comments by the hack who "reported" on the vigil.

He actually said that Cindy was not supported by everyone, including her own husband, who filed for divorce after twenty eight years of marriage, and all of her surviving children. He then turned to a * supporter and said isn't it ironic that you're here, supporting the troops and Cindy is in Texas protesting the President? This woman also lost a son in Iraq, and apparently she was grieving the "correct" way and supporting chimp as a good mother should.

Every comment that I heard about Cindy was negative and snide, including the ones from the "reporter". It was vile and disgusting and incredibly biased. I was shocked, and am literally shaking with rage.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 11:14 PM
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1. Contact information
Station Address & Mailing Address
KRON 4
1001 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94109

E-Mail Address [email protected]

Main Switchboard (415) 441-4444

Viewer Questions
& Comments Hotline (415) 561-8186
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Frances Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 11:18 PM
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3. I left a message on the comments line
Thanks for posting the number
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senseandsensibility Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 11:25 PM
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9. Thanks
I was going to post contact info but I wanted to get off ASAP and send my own blistering e-mail, which I did.
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AverageJoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 11:14 PM
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2. I'd expect something like that down here in Alabama
but San Francisco? Jesus. The virus is everywhere.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 11:19 PM
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5. I feel scared. The have invaded SF.
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Frances Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 11:20 PM
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6. I'm an Alabama native
who has lived in the Boston Mass area, the Washington DC area, and northern California.

The media is controlled by corporations and, unfortunately, you can find corporate slanted news anywhere in the country.

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senseandsensibility Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 11:29 PM
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10. How funny
in a sick way, I suppose. I used Alabama in my rant to the station. I said something like that kind of reporting might fly in Alabama, but this is San Francisco and we're not buying that propaganda. Anyway, I know that there are many good people in Alabama too, like you.
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AverageJoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 11:46 PM
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14. There are good people everywhere
That's what keeps me sane.

You're very lucky to live in San Francisco. What a beautiful city. I've been there a couple of times and always seem to find my way to Vesuvio, the bar across from City Lights, spend way too much time in both the bar and the bookstore. No, that's wrong. It's impossible to spend to much time in either place....

Cheers across the miles, senseandsensibility.

And God bless Cindy.
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ailsagirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 11:19 PM
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4. That's just too bizarre...
Thanks for the info-- I'm surprised at KRON!!!

:puke:
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senseandsensibility Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 11:31 PM
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11. I am too
They have reported fairly and accurately on other progressive demonstrations, including anti-groper ones. I have sent them thank you e-mails in the past. But I just sent them a rant that should curl their hair.
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ailsagirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 12:47 PM
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18. Good for you. Their hair NEEDS curling!!
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 11:20 PM
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7. !!
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 11:24 PM
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8. has a memo been put out to press. i am hearing a sharp contrast
today on the reporting of cindy compared to just yesterday. all the shows seem to have taken this tack. they were harsh and critical in past, some and not others, but there is a different feel to the shows tonight compared to before. a bringing in anti sheehans and giving it to them to diss, and the reporter being a part of the dissing. i ma talking the national news too. hardball, cooper. it feels different tonight. maybe something to do with the nationwide vigils
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senseandsensibility Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 12:53 AM
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16. Could be
I was shocked by the tone of the report. Based on everything I've read on DU, Cindy has been getting reasonable coverage so far. This was not reasonable. I boycott the corporate media, so I can't compare this report first hand. But it was very biased. I only watched because my hubby, a true liberal and sweetheart, called me in to watch it. We were both floored by the hostility.
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 11:35 PM
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12. KRON SUCKS!!!
I'm in the bay area, too, senseandsensibility. I stopped watching TV years ago but I recall that KRON has ALWAYS SUCKED.

TELEVISION IS NOT ABOUT REPORTING OPINION BUT SHAPING OPINION. It is brain washing, pure and simple.

Like Jack Rabbit said (and I say this to all, not just you): KILL YOUR TV.

There is only one issue here and that is the question a mother of a dead soldier is asking the erzatz 'president' of the United States: WHY ARE WE IN IRAQ? WHY DID CASEY SHEHAN HAVE TO DIE? Everything else is just bullshit.

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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 11:35 PM
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13. KRON SUCKS!!!
I'm in the bay area, too, senseandsensibility. I stopped watching TV years ago but I recall that KRON has ALWAYS SUCKED.

TELEVISION IS NOT ABOUT REPORTING OPINION BUT SHAPING OPINION. It is brain washing, pure and simple.

Like Jack Rabbit said (and I say this to all, not just you): KILL YOUR TV.

There is only one issue here and that is the question a mother of a dead soldier is asking the erzatz 'president' of the United States: WHY ARE WE IN IRAQ? WHY DID CASEY SHEHAN HAVE TO DIE? Everything else is just bullshit.

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caligirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 12:02 AM
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15. I live in the bay area too, I called and complained based on your comments
since they lost their network affiliation they have hit hard times. too sad.
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senseandsensibility Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 10:26 AM
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17. Thanks for the support, caligirl
I wanted to post and thank you last night, but DU was acting up for me. It was going really slow. Did anyone else have that problem? Anyway, thanks again.
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caligirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 03:46 PM
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19. No kidding, I gave up last night figuring the site was being
overwhelmed by candle light vigil news posters. I posted twice and gave up.
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