Home The Latest Letters Inside LA TV You Won't Believe News Where Are They Now? Chris Kazarian Archives Links Contact OTR About Ron
		Friday April 1, 2005   ***************************************************************************** Reminder: Please send your letters using upper AND lower case, and remember to include your first and last name.  Also please SPELL CHECK before sending.   (FRIDAY) I wish that I could vote four times for Chuck Henry...4-F's. Do they keep him for low-comedy relief. Something is not kosher at CH-4 when KNBC turns loose three fine television professionals but Chuck The Puke continues on. Yes, I can click the remote and I do. Not the mute button but the channel button. Tom Milner Ojai, CA Ron I am glad to see that you are doing well... I am a little taken aback at your opinion regarding Chuck Henry at NBC.  I think he is one of the best reporters/anchors in the area.  He is definitely better then Paul Moyer.  I think a little mispronunciation is not that big of a deal after all no one is perfect.  Let he who makes no mistakes cast the first stone. :)  Keep up the good work Russ Herbel - Orange, CA Ron: Given that Michael Schiavo mispronounces his own name I think anyone can call it whatever they want.  He is an Italian with an anglicized his name.   The name is correctly "Skee-Aah-Voe"  In Italian, a CH combination takes the sound of K.  Another, similar, common American mispronunciation is of the word bruschetta.  It's brew-sketta, not brew-shetta. My name looks like sara-ghee-noe, but it's chair-uh-ghee-noe given the other Italian rule: CE or CI take a "SH" sound.   I heard a priest at the Terri Schiavo memorial yesterday call her "she-aah-voe" which is closer to the real thing than her husband ever came..  I can guarantee you that the Italian media pronounces it " Skee-Aah-Voe."   Warren Cereghino (Most of us would agree that every person has a right to pronounce their name any way they like. You may not like to see names Americanized or anglicized, but that decision is up to the individual. So if Michael Schiavo pronounces his name Shyvo...then Shyvo is correct.  As they say in Italian  A ciascuno il suo....which means "To each his own." - Ron (TUESDAY) So Don Corsini and Nancy Gonzales don't think very much of their writers.    Doesn't that say at least as much about the Corsini and Gonzales as it does about the writers?  After all, they are responsible for hiring those writers, aren't they?  And, if the current staff of writers doesn't measure up why haven't they been replaced with better writers?   The answers are all too clear.  Corsini and Gonzalez have simply taken a cheap shot.  One obviously concocted to weigh on contract negotiations with the writers and for no other purpose.   One wonders how can Corsini and Gonzales condone the  performances of some of their on-air talent (word used loosely) and then make such a statement about the writers?    How can the stockholders condone Corsini and Gonzalez?  Especially now since, by admittedly hiring second-rate writers, have proven that they haven't  done (or are incapable of doing) their jobs according to industry standards for management?   BTW, I wonder who is responsible for those horrid "From The Street" things that Corsini has done.      Reporting Live From Diamond Bar Ed Hain   Ron:   I've been around the business a long time.  I've worked with lots of reporters -- consumer reporters, investigative reporters, bureau reporters, business reporters, sports reporters, crime reporters.  The list goes on and on.   However you mentioned something in your Friday edition I have never heard of.  You wrote about "KTTV American Idol reporter Kristin Holt"  Pray tell, what in the world is that?   Does the L.A. Emmy Awards now have a category -- "Best American Idol Reporter" ?   Reed Fullcrest (In their infinite wisdom, KTTV hired Kristin Holt to report on American Idol for them. Holt is a former Idol contestant and also used to be an Idol correspondent on the the show.  I feel funny calling her a "reporter," but technically I guess that is what she is. - Ron) I'm very sorry to hear that Bill Thomas won't be the successor to Jennifer York over at KTLA.  Though I continue to miss Jennifer, Bill has always done a solid job as an airborne reporter.  He knows the Los Angeles area freeways very well, you hear the quality of his work both on KTLA and numerous radio stations over the years.  I don't know enough about Desiree Horton to make any comments, but I nonetheless still think that Bill deserved the opportunity to get the opening at Channel 5.  I'll make sure I wear a Hawaiian shirt sometime this week in honor of Bill and "Aloha Friday." Sincerely, Alan Oda For last week's letters...you can click on www.RonFineman.com/L050325.asp
		Top of Page .