Comments on: Does anyone cover the news in Sacramento?

By: T Mind of Ted Your God

T Mind of Ted Your God — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 03:39:07 +0000

In reply to Donkey.

Duncey my boy–

I have told you before– NO one reads your RURG rants when they are this long. Please think before you type.

By: SoCalSteve

SoCalSteve — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 01:14:54 +0000

Thank goodness those of us in SoCal have a decent news station in KNX and the LA Times, which has maintained its Capitol staff.

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 19:02:08 +0000

Fossil jabber…..

Most Californians cannot read……get over it…

By: ken

ken — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 19:58:01 +0000

Excellent article! And very accurate from my perspective. While the point of the piece is that there is simply not enough news coverage of government at all levels, its a bit more complex. Here’s some points to consider:
1. An increasingly uninformed and apathetic public is not getting information from traditional media choices. That means less revenue for the newspapers and magazines especially, and news operations have always been the first hit when revenue goes down. That’s sad but reality.
2. What print journalism being done appears to be responding to events after the fact, taking news releases with a minimum of rewrite or questioning, or self-serving so-called documentary articles aimed at winning some award. Op-ed is not news either, as important as it is to the overall picture.
3. Local TV news is a joke. I cannot think of one TV reporter or on-air commentator in Sacramento I would consider to be a real reporter. Standing in front of a building or some active background is a theatric device to add a degree of immediacy to reading some lines that could have just as easily been delivered from behind a podium. Get some tape of the real action, please. Fifteen to 20 minutes of weather in every newscast? Really! It is usually hot here. It will get cooler at night, maybe. And just about every day is the same. Unless there is a tornado, flood or other severe weather actually threatening people and the station is providing real-time information that can save lives, no need for more than 2-3 minutes of weather.
4. Local radio news went away in the late 1960’s most places in America. That’s just a fact of life and economics. Talk radio is not news. Nor is talk TV. Nor are on-line blogs.
5. The politicians and the bureaucrats are very much aware that no one is watching them. If there were some real news coverage and questions asked and improprieties exposed, we just might get better government. I’m not counting on that happening.

For the record, I’m an old reporter and TV news director. I’ve told more than one reporter and editor that if they have not been threatened for what they were writing, sued, dragged from a meeting, arrested and had government agencies investigating them, they are not a real reporter. And I also found out over the years by showing up at an event or news conference a half hour early and listening around the edges, you may get a whole lot better story.

I’ve been there and had all of the above occur in my life. I’m trying not to be too much of an old curmudgeon in my 60’s. I think I am losing that battle. I ask my journalism school what they are doing to develop investigative reporters and generally get some political correct answer or a blank stare.

Your article got me going and that I like! Right on!

By: lordonlow

lordonlow — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 21:37:53 +0000

I’m a native Angeleno, and if we look at the sitch of arguably the most important of Cali’s cities it’s so ugly as perhaps best exemplified by our unfunded liabilities: $27 bil. Can you say “meltdown” boys and girls?

By: Queeg

Queeg — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:44:56 +0000

Sacramento is a hot scroungy pit of a town filled with brown bagging skin flints checking your regulations compliance…..

Recently got a fix it ticket for late truck registration due to moving screw ups, overlooking need of smog check etc. etc.

Went to CHP for sign off of completed paperwork….wow…six crew cut, burly, happy go lucky guys around the glass window eating some tacky looking birthday cake on paper plates….

One cave man stamped and signed me off….and told me to send 25 bucks to the court clerk…..

I bust out laughing……reminded me of a kangaroo court outside Norfolk, Virgina in the early 1960’s…..amazing flashback.

By: Donkey

Donkey — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:13:48 +0000

The RAGWUS bureaucracies are not talking to the reporters because of backroom collusion, and many of the reporters themselves are in on spreading the statist view of government, I would venture to say that most reporters have never even read the Constitution nor care what it entails.
All any freedom loving American needs to do is read their local code enforcement laws to quickly find out that you don’t own your property and you can be can be attacked, fined, jailed, or murdered over the most minor detail i.e. having left your trash bin out in public view.

The truth is that more Americans have been killed by local LE since 9/11 happened than have been killed fighting the “war on terror.” And little is being printed about it, so ignoring government corruption is no surprise to this American. 🙂