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Date Posted: 13:44:29 07/29/09 Wed
Author: Nitpicker
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

His blog, the paper's website.

>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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