Fired Joplin police officer Charles Ward was interviewed on camera by one reporter today as far as I can determine and that one reporter was KODE's Dan Tordjman. For a lot of viewers, it was the first time they could actually put a face on Ward, whose name has been a fixture in the media for the better part of a year.
Ward was allowed to present his side of the story, and while it was not particularly convincing, it made for compelling television. KSNF, KODE's sister station, of course, piggybacked on Tordjman's triumph, using KODE's footage during its 10 p.m. newscast. Of course, there have been many times when it has been KODE that has used KSNF footage. That's the problem when you have four local television stations, but only two news operations between them.
While I am still warming up to KODE's anchor team of Brian Hamman and Tara Brown (though I am beginning to see the wisdom of the choice of Hamman as Jimmy Siedlecki's replacement) KODE has a reporting staff that gets better all the time.
And tonight, that news team was at the top of its game.
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Not a scoop. I think Ward was talking to everyone today.
As far as the print media, that may be true, though I have seen no evidence of that yet, but I did not see any Ward interview on the portion of KOAM's newscast and KSNF's footage obviously came from KODE.
And I might add, KODE definitely played the interview correctly. This story has a tremendous amount of interest locally and deserved a little extra coverage.
Landing versus assigning are two different things. You should consider this before saying that so and so did this. It's not always the case.
When I was at The Carthage Press, if I assigned a reporter to do the interview and the reporter did it, the reporter got the credit and deserved the credit. I will stand by what I said.
How are there scoops between sister stations? I'm sure KOAM shares with FOX 14. Does 14 have a scoop if they air it at 9pm. If that were true, they'd always scoop 7.
Re: Tara and Brian...if you only knew their lack of news judgment
And congratulations for KODE's morning anchor Antonia DeNardo for her current ranking of #10 on wanderlist's listing of sexiest female local reporters, weathergals and anchors.
Talk about getting up in the morning...
I'd love to see her in action...
Wouldn't mind being the one to watch there...
Mission...oh that's enough...
http://www.wanderlist.com/sexyreporters
That's probably the only journalism award she'd likely win.
Randy, you're getting too soft on the GLOBE and its coverage of Joplin. If you were its Editor, what would you do to inspire increased and competent coverage of Joplin?
Randy, you're getting too soft on the GLOBE and its coverage of Joplin. If you were its Editor, what would you do to inspire increased and competent coverage of Joplin?
Way to go Dan!!!!
Not bad for a balding Moraccan kid from Brooklyn!
Not to mention he is TOTALLY hot! Have you seen him in person? He's got the "WOW" factor.
Then your ONE lucky girl! Congratulations.
Changing the subject. The way The Globe uses its reporters names in previews of tomorrow's paper is stupid. "Courts reporter Jeff Lehr looks at the case in Thursday’s Joplin Globe."
Memo to The Globe: Nobody cares who is going to write the story. You don't have Bob Woodward on staff. You have the same people writing the same stuff every day. Using their name in the preview isn't going to make me buy the paper.
TROJAN MAN!...oh wait
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