the Magic just fired Matt Guokas, their colour guy. GET THAT MAN UNDER CONTRACT ASAP! no offense to Jerry, who is of course a folk hero and very charming in his way, but Guokas is one of the best league pass guys out there. if you want a fresh start for your broadcasting team, he's precisely the kind of guy you need to look at (although I still wouldn't oppose Pollard).
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This belief seems incredibly naive to me, and ignoring of reality.
Media figures influence the public constantly. What do you think PR is about?
Multi-billion-dollar industries don't exist for decades for no reason....
When Napear constantly disseminates propaganda to tens of thousands (?) of listeners, day in and day out, for months/years, it DOES influence the team, fandom, and therefore the decision-making criteria for the team.
I've been a fan of Napear's since around 1997, when he used to be an objective (and accurate) critic/supporter of the team. His observations used to be sound.
Nowadays, they are invariably based on personal experiences and emotion/hype.
This recent targetting of DMC traces back to a specific day. It was around Dec 5th, 2012 or so (I vaguely remember) when Grant opened his show and attacked DMC for 2 straight hours, slowly dictating and controlling the message and discussion about Demarcus.
Since then, Grant has led the witchhunt against DMC, and has actively done almost everything a radio host can do to get DMC traded from the Kings.
I don't know what DMC did to Grant, but we all can guess that Demarcus called Grant out, in person, tired of his ****/schtick.
I used to respect Grant's in-your-face attitude, because as I remember, he had little problem with people being blunt back to him.
That changed (IIRC) around 2005 or so, when Grant got hypocritical, and he lies about him not having a problem with people calling him out.
Grant's complete and utter full-time defense of Keith Smart, and refusal to allow ANY discussion about the coaching staff's incompetence, combined with his witchhunt of DMC and blaming him for everything makes me, as a Kings fan, wish Grant GONE.
Grant will do more damage to this team if he gets DMC traded than any other person in the organization.
Thinking that a radio host, who week after week demonizes someone, does not influence the public is simply ignoring the reality of contemporary media.
But that's par for the course - VF21 and many others here don't believe that Brick and other prominent posters here can influence the group-think of KF's.com, either.
Media figures influence the public constantly. What do you think PR is about?
Multi-billion-dollar industries don't exist for decades for no reason....
When Napear constantly disseminates propaganda to tens of thousands (?) of listeners, day in and day out, for months/years, it DOES influence the team, fandom, and therefore the decision-making criteria for the team.
I've been a fan of Napear's since around 1997, when he used to be an objective (and accurate) critic/supporter of the team. His observations used to be sound.
Nowadays, they are invariably based on personal experiences and emotion/hype.
This recent targetting of DMC traces back to a specific day. It was around Dec 5th, 2012 or so (I vaguely remember) when Grant opened his show and attacked DMC for 2 straight hours, slowly dictating and controlling the message and discussion about Demarcus.
Since then, Grant has led the witchhunt against DMC, and has actively done almost everything a radio host can do to get DMC traded from the Kings.
I don't know what DMC did to Grant, but we all can guess that Demarcus called Grant out, in person, tired of his ****/schtick.
I used to respect Grant's in-your-face attitude, because as I remember, he had little problem with people being blunt back to him.
That changed (IIRC) around 2005 or so, when Grant got hypocritical, and he lies about him not having a problem with people calling him out.
Grant's complete and utter full-time defense of Keith Smart, and refusal to allow ANY discussion about the coaching staff's incompetence, combined with his witchhunt of DMC and blaming him for everything makes me, as a Kings fan, wish Grant GONE.
Grant will do more damage to this team if he gets DMC traded than any other person in the organization.
Thinking that a radio host, who week after week demonizes someone, does not influence the public is simply ignoring the reality of contemporary media.
But that's par for the course - VF21 and many others here don't believe that Brick and other prominent posters here can influence the group-think of KF's.com, either.
I saw recently a report that Kings marketing was monitoring social media/websites, the quote was ''we're seeing every post''. I can omly hope they see this one.
Like I said before, I don't like office politics being played out over the air. It's unprofessional, and it's all we've gotten from Grant over the past 6 or 7 years. It's hard for me to watch Grant try to save his job by piggybacking off of Carmichael Dave's popularity with the grass roots movement. It's also hard watching Carmichael Dave team up with Grant to work his way back onto KHTK. Essentially scratching each others back in the middle of all of this. That's the way I saw it playing out towards the end and it became distracting. Sometimes having history with a public figure is a good thing. In the case of Grant, it is probably a bad thing. He's polarizing and that may be good for a national radio show, but not so much for a local show. Time to move on.
This belief seems incredibly naive to me, and ignoring of reality.
Media figures influence the public constantly. What do you think PR is about?
Multi-billion-dollar industries don't exist for decades for no reason....
When Napear constantly disseminates propaganda to tens of thousands (?) of listeners, day in and day out, for months/years, it DOES influence the team, fandom, and therefore the decision-making criteria for the team.
I've been a fan of Napear's since around 1997, when he used to be an objective (and accurate) critic/supporter of the team. His observations used to be sound.
Nowadays, they are invariably based on personal experiences and emotion/hype.
This recent targetting of DMC traces back to a specific day. It was around Dec 5th, 2012 or so (I vaguely remember) when Grant opened his show and attacked DMC for 2 straight hours, slowly dictating and controlling the message and discussion about Demarcus.
Since then, Grant has led the witchhunt against DMC, and has actively done almost everything a radio host can do to get DMC traded from the Kings.
I don't know what DMC did to Grant, but we all can guess that Demarcus called Grant out, in person, tired of his ****/schtick.
I used to respect Grant's in-your-face attitude, because as I remember, he had little problem with people being blunt back to him.
That changed (IIRC) around 2005 or so, when Grant got hypocritical, and he lies about him not having a problem with people calling him out.
Grant's complete and utter full-time defense of Keith Smart, and refusal to allow ANY discussion about the coaching staff's incompetence, combined with his witchhunt of DMC and blaming him for everything makes me, as a Kings fan, wish Grant GONE.
Grant will do more damage to this team if he gets DMC traded than any other person in the organization.
Thinking that a radio host, who week after week demonizes someone, does not influence the public is simply ignoring the reality of contemporary media.
But that's par for the course - VF21 and many others here don't believe that Brick and other prominent posters here can influence the group-think of KF's.com, either.
Media figures influence the public constantly. What do you think PR is about?
Multi-billion-dollar industries don't exist for decades for no reason....
When Napear constantly disseminates propaganda to tens of thousands (?) of listeners, day in and day out, for months/years, it DOES influence the team, fandom, and therefore the decision-making criteria for the team.
I've been a fan of Napear's since around 1997, when he used to be an objective (and accurate) critic/supporter of the team. His observations used to be sound.
Nowadays, they are invariably based on personal experiences and emotion/hype.
This recent targetting of DMC traces back to a specific day. It was around Dec 5th, 2012 or so (I vaguely remember) when Grant opened his show and attacked DMC for 2 straight hours, slowly dictating and controlling the message and discussion about Demarcus.
Since then, Grant has led the witchhunt against DMC, and has actively done almost everything a radio host can do to get DMC traded from the Kings.
I don't know what DMC did to Grant, but we all can guess that Demarcus called Grant out, in person, tired of his ****/schtick.
I used to respect Grant's in-your-face attitude, because as I remember, he had little problem with people being blunt back to him.
That changed (IIRC) around 2005 or so, when Grant got hypocritical, and he lies about him not having a problem with people calling him out.
Grant's complete and utter full-time defense of Keith Smart, and refusal to allow ANY discussion about the coaching staff's incompetence, combined with his witchhunt of DMC and blaming him for everything makes me, as a Kings fan, wish Grant GONE.
Grant will do more damage to this team if he gets DMC traded than any other person in the organization.
Thinking that a radio host, who week after week demonizes someone, does not influence the public is simply ignoring the reality of contemporary media.
But that's par for the course - VF21 and many others here don't believe that Brick and other prominent posters here can influence the group-think of KF's.com, either.
Agreed. The guy is one of the worst online sports beat writers I've ever seen. He's a major Lakers/so-cal fan who is working for a major Kings supporter newspaper. His information is either late or wrong, and the only reason why he's even covering the Kings is because SacBee is too cheap to pay someone to cover both the Raiders and the Kings at the same time.