And The Winner For The Biggest Douche On TV Goes To,,,,
Yesterday I ranted for a bit about the AT&T / Bellsouth merger, and announced my very own web awards called "The Lazies" to point out how absurd the Academy Awards are.
Yesterday, T'Pau won "Worst Band Name In The History Of humanity". Today's Lazy goes to the worst newscaster on TV.
This category had a lot of competition. There is Bill O=Riley for example. He is a world-class douche, but not quite worthy of the title "biggest douche on the television", although he comes close. Bill wins the honorary title of "second biggest douche on the television". There is also Ann Coulter, who would win "biggest twit on the television", but simply being a twit is not enough. There is also Larry King, with the suspenders and checkered pants and fake hair and STUPID questions during interviews that last way too long. I do not know if Larry King counts as a twit or a douche, he would win for "most dull personality on the television". By the way, I made up the checkered pants bit - but seriously, if someone told you that a well known figure on a cable news network wore checkered pants, who would you guess the person to be? Larry King right??
So without any more Tom-Foolery, I shall announce the winner for "The Biggest Douche On Television". And the winner is THIS GUY!
The Rickster started out as a nobody in the South Florida news market. Channel 7, WSVN Miami, used to be CBS. For some reason, Channel 7 became independent and Channel 6 (which was independent) turned into CBS. Channel 7 eventually became part of the Fox network.
Anyway, once WSVN was independent, they had to start programming a station. No longer could they just air whatever crap CBS was producing. So they dabbled with the then new idea of tabloid style TV news.
This is where The Rickster saw a chance. My earliest memories of Rick are of his "Crime Check With Rick Sanchez", where he would cruise the worst areas of Miami in a news van waiting for someone to get shot or run over or whatever. Then he would "report" live from the scene, the more police tape and blood the better. These segments NEVER really reported any news, a typical report would go "we do not know what happened here, other than someone shot someone else - probably over drugs or money or maybe gang violence or even a pimp war".
After doing this for far too long, The Rickster started to move up. And mow people down. At a Dolphins game he got a little (OK A LOT) too drunk and ran someone over. The man died. Rick drove off and continued home, where he proceeded to "drink to calm his nerves" and eventually called the cops. When they arrived at his house, there was no proof he was drunk at the time of the crime because he claimed he got drunk at home BEFORE calling the cops. Yea whatever. He eventually pleaded "no contest" to DUI but never really got into very much trouble because his lawyers managed to put most of the blame on the other "drunk" guy who decided to jump out in front of The Ricksters new car.
By the way, CLICK HERE to hear some drunken Rick Sanchez karaoke! This recording was made by an anonymous WSVN employee, and Rick FREAKED OUT about it.
He became a lead anchor on WSVN. Cheerfully reporting on all sorts of death and destruction with an upbeat voice tone and his trademark smile. For example: (in a cheerful voice) Tonight on WSVN news at 6, 10,000 people killed in a mudslide! We will tell you where after these messages! (flash a big ole smile). That's vintage Rick.
During the Gulf War part 1, Rick had a giant floor map of Iraq made. He would stand over the map and place little plastic tanks and army men and stuff on it to represent locations of....well....tanks and army men. Click HERE to hear another comedy bit about this.
In 1992, after Hurricane Andrew he pissed off the National Guard by getting on the TV and reporting that the Guard were not carrying live ammo.
Sooner or later, he decided he was doing the planet an injustice by limiting himself to Miami. So he got hired by MSNBC - who ended up canning his ass in short order.
So the king returned to Miami, but Channel 7 did not want him back. Someone else was in his chair, and none of the other anchors wanted the dickhead back. So he went to Channel 6 and hosted an afternoon "Oprah style" talk show - that FLOPPED. Nobody watched it.
Miami simply did not want The Rickster back.
So CNN hired the looser. The people of Miami were happy to get rid of the goon. I even offered to pay for his one way bus ticket and pack him a brown bag lunch.
congratulations Rick Sanchez! You ARE "The Biggest Douche"! Goodbye.
posted by The Lazy Iguana @ 20:13
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he sounds like your typical newscaster type...so whats the negatives here? *G*
he does look like a doofus for sure
Rick Sanchez is an asshole. It is impossible to say too many bad things about him.
And NO COMMENTS about the comedy bits I linked to?!!?!? Not even from the people who live in Miami and read this blog?
Come on people - you are not fooling me. If you lived in Miami when Rick was on the air I KNOW YOU HATE HIS GUTS! Admit it!
OOOoooh, there's something else you don't know about Rick Sanchez during his drunk days. I saw documents from a certain program that states that the Rickster got busted for "lewd and lascivious behavior". He was basically caught giving another man head, and it stated so, but not in those words. That's probably how he stayed on the air for so long and how he got the cush CNN gig.
First of all, Channel 7 was never a CBC affiliate or O&O. It was previously WCKT and was an affiliate of NBC. When NBC tried to buy the station and they said it was not for sale, it went solo. It made news it’s go-to program and called itself “South Florida’s News Station.” Shortly thereafter, it became a FOX affiliate. It was never CBS.
The station was one the first in the country to go with a 1-hour late news program, and instead of starting it at 11 pm, they started it at 10:00. They tried a new in your face news style that hundreds of station across the country are still copying and was features in the New York Times at the time. In fact, many of the graphics, styles, language, etc. had its roots at channel 7. There is no disputing this. It made Channel 7 millions.
Sanchez dis chase the top stories as it happened and covered them on the spot. In fact, many credit crime check with the show “COPS” on FOX which was first filmed in Miami. “Crime Check” was “COPS” which is still running strong.
The part about channel 7 airing the fact that the national gurd was not carrying amo was newsworthy at the time. Was this IRAQ? The story told the tale of many of the guardmen and women who were fed up with not being allowed to carry amo, even as there were shootings every night. As a result, the guard got their amo.
After doing this for far too long, The Rickster started to move up. And mow people down. At a Dolphins game he got a little (OK A LOT) too drunk and ran someone over. The man died. Rick drove off and continued home, where he proceeded to "drink to calm his nerves" and eventually called the cops. When they arrived at his house, there was no proof he was drunk at the time of the crime because he claimed he got drunk at home BEFORE calling the cops. Yea whatever. He eventually pleaded "no contest" to DUI but never really got into very much trouble because his lawyers managed to put most of the blame on the other "drunk" guy who decided to jump out in front of The Ricksters new car.
He was recruited by MSNBC and was not “canned.” He was given his own “Rick Sanchez” show which did not do well at all. He then was hired by CNN.
Nice try trying to spew hatred and lies. If you don’t like the guy, you don’t like hin, but at least get the facts straight. By the way, he is still at CNN and can be seen nationally each day.
No, I liked Rick Sanchez. His on-air persona was merely the embodiment of WSVN's "if it bleeds, it leads" slogan. That's all. But WSVN had the best local news operation after the 1988 netwok shuffle in the Miami market robbed it of its NBC affiliation, as described above by another poster. Three hours of news in the morning -- rather than padding their newscasts with celebrity bullshit and inserting 5 minutes of local content into Today or Good Morning America like their competitors.
After he went to MSNBC, away from the channel 7 stereotype, Sanchez was tame and very professional. No more "if it bleeds, it leads."
But I did watch his interview of retired deejay Bob Gordon when Sanchez returned to on channel 6, and it was very amateurish. Sanchez was more interested in asking about gangsters in Miami Beach in the 60s than in talking about top-40 radio and Gordon's autobiography, Invisible Tears. Gordon was clearly frustrated by an interview run amuck! I was disappointed, too.
Furthermore, how much credibility should we give to your authoritative diatribe about Rick Sanchez when you couldn't even bother to verify the network WSVN and previously WCKT had been affiliated with for decades?
Anyway, I'd nominate Glen Blecch for the main horse's arse of cable TV. I watched him once. He was giggling while making fun of Alex Trebek and teenage Jeopardy contentants. Quite different from the outspoken intolerant bigot he plays on radio. But a waste of bandwidth, nonetheless.
I'd vote O'Reilly as runner-up, but only becvause Franken isn't on TV.
I was suspicious of the claim by Anonymous that WSVN was "featured in the New York Times". The assumption appears to be that this is a good thing.
So I did a bit of investigative work and dredged up some old NYT articles that mention WSVN. Let's see what they have to say.
Live at 11: Death (6/15/97) "WSVN... earned the highest ratings in Miami and inspired much imitation... Rocky Mountain Media Watch caught WSVN employing spooky music, blood-red graphics and ear-splitting sound effects to serve up a drumbeat of death, danger and destruction"
TELEVISION; It Might Be News, but It's Not 'MacNeil/Lehrer' (4/25/93) - "Reporters at rival stations here like to joke that "if it bleeds, it leads" on WSVN, whose eight hours of news programming is designed to shock and to entertain. The station's glitzy, hyperkinetic style borrows heavily from MTV and tabloid shows, hoping to attract young viewers who have resisted traditional news programs... With about 50 stories per hourlong newscast, no report is allowed to go on for long. "We probably put more stories in our show than anybody in the country," Mr. Cheatwood said, "not only to give as broad a perspective as possible but also to keep the show moving." The sole exception, rivals complain, are blood-and-guts stories, which tend to get more expansive treatment. "Our shots are very wide in that situation," said Sharon Scott, news director at WTVJ, the NBC affiliate here and WSVN's most tenacious competitor. "They like to go real tight, so you can get the maximum blood on the face."... But Paul Steinle, director of the journalism program at the University of Miami and a former president of the Financial News Network and United Press International, sees little to praise in WSVN's experimentation. "We teach a class in electronic journalism, and we always end up looking at them, because they are the worst example of local news I have ever seen in the United States," he said. "They do not cover the news. Their entire agenda is set by whatever pictures they can line up.""
Those are excerpts from the two articles that discuss WSVN's content from the NYT. Not exactly revolutionary.
In broadcast news, I feel there is a continuum of format, with WSVN on one side and NPR on the other side.
WSVN originally took its cues from MTV news. It was a programming format designed to attract kids. It has also been widely adopted: you can catch glimmers of the style even on the major cable networks, like CNN and Fox.
Yes, it is entertainment. But I don't know how I am informed. A whole day of coverage devoted to some crazy murder -- this has become almost typical on all TV news outlets. I guess that's what people want to watch. But I'm 25 -- I'm their demographic -- and I can tell you that I don't like it. I want to know more about what's going on in the world, what our government is doing, what the EU is up to -- yeah, I know it'll always be filtered and I'll never get the "real" story, but it seems more worthy of attention, seeing that my existence on Earth is limited.
Not too much upstairs, is there?
Oh, Rick. Please, Rick. Leave CNN.
CNN: Please can this man.
Yeah, I can see "football scholarship" all over his thick head. Not too bright. CNN? I may switch to another station.
JM
Rick sachez is a racist .He is latino first an american second
you forget that CNBC canned him as well. there's just so many times you can fuck up the names of people and companies before your usefulness as a newsreader dips into the red.
he can't even read a teleprompter. there are so many talented, good looking, SMART, journalists who can read a teleprompter out there without butchering Khmer Rouge, but Rick Sanchez has their job.
This asshole is a fringe left cheerleader and just unwatchable. Almost. He's kind of like a train wreck. You find yourself watching just to see his next moronic rantings.
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