Local News Sucks

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Now she can wear bikinis year round. Chloe Vincente announces she’s leaving for Alabama. Did John Solak’s expose chase her out of here sooner than planned? To her credit she looked and sounded good on TV and could read. That’s far more than we are used to in Binghamton media.

Had WBNG on about a week ago, and it was time for the "anchors" to turn it over to the sports babe (no need to remember her name, she will be gone within a few months) and the poor girl's audio wasn't on, so she couldn't be heard. The anchors started laughing hysterically. This is what local news has come to. You've got immature children on camera and in the control room. I never cared for Candace Chapman or Greg Caitlin, but they ran a professional organization and presented a well run program.

Robert J. Ondecko, known on WNBF as Bob Joseph, has tested positive for Covid 19, and will host Binghamton Now remotely for a couple weeks. Ondecko, who is a Tioga County resident, received his test results at the Broome County rapid testing site at the Vestal Library. The rapid tests in Broome County are for Broome County residents only. Did Ondecko lie about his address or present a falsified document to be tested in Broome County?

If it means the newspaper losing advertising dollars I would be happy to pick up a copy tomorrow and list the advertisers. The number of advertisers in a Sunday paper in 2020 is less than half the number you would have seen only a few years ago. It’s the obituaries that keeps the press going. On any given day the obituary revenue is greater than the advertising revenue.

To say the Syracuse media is pissed about this is an understatement.

Bob was on at the end of today’s show (hosted by Doug Mosher) to announce he was possibly exposed to Covid, and would host tomorrow and Friday from Studio Z (his home in Apalachin). This is the second time in a month Bob has been on hiatus from the show due to exposure to Covid. Where is he hanging out, that he’s constantly exposed to Covid?

The Broome Health Department and WBNG TV were both notified about the Abels cases over a week ago. They chose not to make any public statements. In the meantime the virus continued to spread. It took A Cuomo cryptic statement to the media to finally get the word out.

I would suggest all local law enforcement agencies stop sending the Press & Sun-Bulletin press releases, and do not respond to their questions. Cut them off.

BLM Biviano is at it again with another front page story today about Binghamton residents at the Rochester protest. Funny she doesn’t mention the arrest of Masai Andrews, because that doesn’t fit her racist, anti police narrative.

Ashley Biviano recently re-tweeted the battle cry that reporters suffer from a lack of sleep. Yet she has been working from home since March.

Apparently a homicide followed by a vehicle crash, on one of the the most traveled roads in Broome County wasn’t big enough news to make the print edition of today’s press and sun bulletin.

All of this time off all at once is highly unusual. If Bob’s time off isn’t health or Covid related, he was probably told to use his vacation time now, due to eventual downsizing. All the tv and radio stations are hurting from horrible second quarter advertising revenue losses.

We have a situation where both Broome County deaths of Coronavirus have been at Lourdes Hospital. The family of one of the deceased have been on every TV station and in the newspaper with criticism of how Lourdes handled the treatment of their loved one, and the communication to the family. A caller just called into Bob Joseph on WNBF to talk about the care at Lourdes, but Bob Joseph cut him right off. Don't kid yourselves, Lourdes/Ascension Health are one of the biggest paid advertisers on WNBF/Town Square Media. What is allowed to be discussed on Bob Joseph's show is dictated by who advertises with his radio group. Bob's show is bought and paid for.

Mari must have had enough of that rude WBNG egomaniac. They are no longer together.