White guys with dark hair

[Beerbong]

Might be the most endless resource in TV.

Don’t want to overpay Greg Molzon to be the sports director any more? Replace him with another white guy with dark hair, Lispy Thlocum!

Don’t want to overpay Lispy Thlocum anymore? Replace him with another white guy with more dark hair than he has. Could be his little brother, really.

Same cadence among these three though. You’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.

Want to stop overpaying Deputy Harris for kissing cop keister and being ineffective? Replace him with another white guy with frosty tipped dark hair, Dave Blondie!

Random much?

[sinklair]

Unfortunately LL101 has a point here. Flint TV stations have a lack of diversity.

However there are some notable exceptions...

TV5 has Frank Turner and Collette Boyd. 12 has Dawn Jones and Matt Franklin. 25-66 has Mike Woolfolk. Ahmad Bajjey would be one of the first Middle Eastern Chief meteorologists in the US if management ever gave him the well-deserved title. Jeanna Trotman does a great job as a female Sports Director.

Some of the best journalists are persons of color, ethnically diverse or women in traditionally male roles. All three news directors are currently women. David Custer is an openly gay male in a lead newscaster role.

Much, much more needs to be done to encourage diversity. But it is a start.

Real change will come when hiring managers hire great journalists solely based on their merits... or when the hiring managers themselves are persons of color/ethic minorities.

[DAC]

I agree that 101 has a point, but why do we always have to wade though his ridiculously documented "dislike" of Bill Harris, among other things, to get to it?

Personally, I think that Frank Turner is drastically underrated, and can't figure out why he's not in a top position when David Custer (blonde hair!) is. Is David given a pass on the hair color thing because he's gay? Which begs the question, are sexual and gender identifications considered part of the diversity that we're speaking of? What if someone wants to keep how they identify private? Would they not count towards diversity? Just wondering.

[sinklair]

Leslie isn’t being considered for Chief Met. She’s a loose cannon and people have to tip toe around her, including the GM who allows her bad behavior to continue. They are worried about a lawsuit, so they are documenting everything just to be safe.

25-66 is worried that they’ll lose Ahmad to Detroit when his contract is up. Ahmad wants to stay, but management continues to shoot themselves in the foot by not getting this done. Chances are they’ll low ball Ahmad with salary proposal.

[sinklair]

DAC: agree with you about Frank Turner being underutilized. But how much of that is his doing? Did Frank ask for the midday and early evening shows... keeping him off the higher profile late evening newscasts? He also does very few special projects.

[Grimmit]

Hey LL101, aren’t you a white male with dark hair?

[sinklair]

I’ll still take Turner’s delivery over Custer’s “all about me” approach to journalism

[audiophile]

I never get to see Turner because WNEM's RF signal tanks. If they stayed on RF 5 I might have had a chance. Even when band is up I never can get a lock. Besides WAQP, WNEM has terrible RF.