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Date Posted: 06:56:51 07/29/09 Wed
Author: Green Manalishi
Subject: Re: Rob Owen: Once too often over the line
In reply to: Ted 's message, "Re: Rob Owen: Once too often over the line" on 03:51:39 07/29/09 Wed

Oh? You DID by chance notice that the blog is not on an independent site like Blogspot but on the POST GAZETTE website. In case you haven't noticed, Rob is a salaried member of the paper's editorial staff and therefore his blog is subject to the same journalistic policy and procedure as the rest of the newspaper. I do not think that overtly advocating people vote for Bell is appropriate. If his editors cared enough about such things, and weren't at Comic-Con or long term New England vacations, they might notice such things.

That's who should care, anyway.

>Who cares? It's his blog.
>
>
>
>>I know he has to report. The PG is spending plenty to
>>send Rob-O to La-La Land to play celebrity reporter
>>and do his unpaid cheerleading for locally produced TV
>>shows, his bizarre obsession. But he crossed a line
>>that should bring down the wrath of his superiors.
>>
>> >>href="http://community.post-gazette.com/blogs/tunedin/
>a
>>rchive/2009/07/28/press-tour-coverage-begins.aspx">htt
>p
>>://community.post-gazette.com/blogs/tunedin/archive/20
>0
>>9/07/28/press-tour-coverage-begins.aspx

>>
>>Since when is it proper for the TV critic to say "Vote
>>for Wendy Bell" in a blog? Owen has been critical of
>>Bell's on camera mugging and egocentrism in the past.
>>He is right to report this event. But in THIS MANNER?
>>
>>It's one more nauseating manifestation of Rob-O's
>>"rah-rah" mentality for the hometown team. It is
>>unethical and unprofessional. PG Editors should ponder
>>what to do. Maybe if Shribman knew who Owen was he
>>might be concerned. He damn well should be. Owen's
>>actions prove he's not even fit to work for Trib Total
>>Media or the BCT.
>>
>>He proudly hypes his membership in Television Critics
>>Association. But he is not a TV critic at all. Based
>>on "work" of this sort, he comes off a a shallow,
>>showbiz-dazzled youngster with a travel budget and an
>>ego, nothing more.
>>
>>It's time the PG began acting like the "great
>>newspaper" it claims to be and put a stop to his
>>blatant promotional blurbs disguised as journalism.

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