Web Search powered by YAHOO! SEARCH
share
email
font size
options
 
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Larry, If You're Reading This...
Blog Image

What did we do wrong? How did we not land a job that paid $700K or whatever K, but extra serious special K, to allow us so much free time that we were so bored than we could spend it all spying on gorgeous co-workers?

Except, maybe we would have spent that free time to write a novel, or take up painting, or do some work, something legal perhaps, in all that free time.

The whole Larry Mendte mess should be labeled Exhibit A in the argument that television newsreaders -- as opposed to the hard-working broadcast reporters, camerafolk, producers and technicians -- are overpaid to do little. The object of Mendte's obsession, Alycia Lane, was known to BlackBerry newspaper reporters during commercials breaks while she was on the air.

 

Posted by Karen Heller @ 3:28 PM  Permalink | 6 comments
Comments   
Posted 04:20 PM, 07/22/2008
jeffreyg61
passing judgment on someones salary when you don't release your own? I'm glad you are everyones CFO. he gets paid b/c people tune in b/c of the anchors, not b/c of the technicians.
Posted 05:14 PM, 07/22/2008
stimguy
I think the point is about the FREE TIME not the salary. Are you angry at the writer about something Jeffrey ??
Posted 08:08 AM, 07/23/2008
wfs0868
They are/were both paid large salaries because they brought viewers and revenue to the newscast. They wouldn't earn those salaries in today's cost-cutting market if they hadn't brought CBS3 up to a level to compete with ABC's Action News. But,both have now lost any credibility even as newsreaders. Will anyone hire a woman who assaults a police officer or a man who breaks federal laws? Both have lost their careers..at least in Philadelphia. You'd think Vince Dimentri and Lauri Delgado would have paid more attention to this story.
Posted 09:31 AM, 07/23/2008
Shemp Howard
HI, Dan Gross, If you are reading this...you are on the same plane as Larry Mendte by taking this information and writing some crappy gossip column...stop giving the litte creep a pass and call out the daily news on this garbage.
Posted 09:00 AM, 07/24/2008
chazzbo
Larry was reading this while it was still being written...
Posted 12:21 PM, 07/24/2008
Axxel
How does any network affiliate TV station even know if/when I'm watching? This CBS debacle is news because Philadelphia is a large media market populated by narrow minded viewers only interested in having headlines, as opposed to news, read to them. Larry and Alycia fit the description. One of them always had perfect makeup and the other had nice legs. In true Philadelphia tradition (give me the fluff and none of the facts) you decide.
6 comments
About Karen Heller
This week Karen Heller is live-blogging the Republican convention in true blogger style - at home, surfing the Web and watching TV. She's covered five other conventions. Three were Republican, two were Democratic. Read all of Populist here.

Karen Heller has interviewed Philip Roth and Zsa Zsa Gabor, spent time with Pink and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the celebrated and the exemplary unsung. She's covered Miss America and political conventions. She's been a provocative voice at The Inquirer for nearly 20 years, garnering awards for criticism, feature writing and investigative reporting, and was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in commentary.

Advertise Here