It was a different beast entirely.
When Ralph first called me about filling in for him on his radio talk show, I hesitated.
It wasn't the 3-hour time slot.
It wasn't the format.
It was tossing out my opinions and observations that made me pause for a moment.
That's not what I do at ABC23, that's not my job.
I present both sides of a story (or try to) and let you develop your own opinion on the matter.
I've got plenty of opinions and the people I've worked with at KERO for the past 17 years have heard me utter those thoughts plenty of times.
But "The Ralph Bailey Show" isn't the newsroom.
I had a good time sitting in for Mr. Googlie Mooglie (sp?) but every time I started to go off on a tangent, I found myself pulling back and censoring my comments.
A knee-jerk reaction perhaps.
To off-set the opinion-filled format, I scheduled a host of guests to talk about a variety of topics.
It was great having Chuck 'The Iceman' Lidell call in to talk about his upcoming UFC fight and his brothers inaugural brawl at the Pure Combat event in Visalia on Friday, August 15th.
I'll be doing the ring announcing for that show, so get your tickets now.
But I'll be following a script of sorts for that show too (with some ad-libbing thrown in).
Those who are close to me know where I stand, what I stand for and who I stand with in my life.
If I get the chance to fill-in for Ralph again in the future, I'll try to loosen the reigns a bit more.
Let you "really know what's going on".
Give a side of the story "you're not getting anywhere else".
Boy howdy!!
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It is easy to see Bakersfield media march in lockstep on every thing in a person life shaping it in their own agenda. They post criminal nightly to inform the public, but the message is not lost; their real motives are conservative republican divisive propaganda.
There message is not be afraid of this criminal, but be afraid of this Black or Hispanic man, he may want to live next door. It is not the criminal you warn Kern’s white majority about, it is the Black or Hispanic, the same about whom you have crated the criminal profile long ago. You may fool some Blacks and Hispanics, but you thrill whites when you reaffirm their prejudices that all crime in Bakersfield is a Black, Hispanic problem.
Funny how the liberals call the media 'conservative' and vice versa.
Where did you get the idea about media's criminal profile?
If it's a specific story you take issue with, give me a call.
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