KSTP billboards

[cmutt]

Anybody else bothered by channel 5's billboards, prominently displaying Cindy Brucato while having "Breaking the news, not bending it" tag-line? What a pile of BS -> junior FOX News wannabees!

[AllegroRondo]

1. "Bringing you the talking points, not investigating them!"

[KitchenWitch]

2. Cyndi Brucato is SUCH a hack!

I have never been able to stand her, even back to the 1970s when she was first a news anchor with channel 5.

I find it ironic that her husband (and presumably her also) run a public relations firm that caters to Republicans and their talking points.

Fair and balanced my arse.

[Demrock6]

3. I checked out her PR company..

She also did a some work for Dems. I dont watch her at all so I dont know if she is a hack or not.

I thought you were talking about radio kstp crap. "start your morning off RIGHT" bull.

[Oreo]

4. KSTP is a joke

They'd call somebody passing gas breaking news and they'd be sure to have a reporter on the scene. They send people out to the middle of nowhere just to be on the spot with a live report. Sensationalism at it's most disgusting.

As for Brucato... I can't watch. Too painful. Actually... I don't watch any local (or national) news anymore.

[Deja Q]

6. They were outside my house one night because of a location down the street

and the 'reporter' (a mannequin with a short skirt) was rehearsing below. Even did a little dance, though with everyone in the neighborhood being able to see her doing that silly jig, one would have to wonder why.

Especially when it was a non-story. :crazy:

They were here for 25 minutes, on screen for 2, and then they left.

Dumb. dumb. dumb.

[question everything]

7. Have been watching them for the "just the facts" approach

more so than KARE or WCCO - in my mind.

But last week or so were exploiting a reporter, I think, with some kind of illness so I switched.

I think that the best news any of them provide is in the morning. I will always watch the Daily Show over the local news, whether at 6:00 or at 10:00 pm.

Last week they were talking about Bruce Spingsteen and Brucato was trying to tell that he lost a lot of audience that disagreed with his political views. And this was the last that I watched her.

[trotsky]

8. The reporter with an illness

was dealing with ovarian cancer. Kristen Stinar, I think her name is. Anyway, she wanted to do the spot to profile that cancer and her treatment, to raise awareness of the disease.

As vile and right-wing as KSTP can be, I don't think they exploited her.

[Deja Q]

5. Sindy Bruck-cattle? Sheesh, she can't pronounce a damn thing.

The first day she was back she mispronounced someone's name. It was enough for me to get riled at the time, but I forgot the name.

The 2nd day she effed up again.

Haven't watched the walking Revlon advert since.

I miss Harris Faulkner. :cry:

[eyepaddle]

9. This one's going back in time a bit,

but does anybody remember when they were introducing "Clear, Concise, CONANGLA!"

The ad was a montage of news-type stuff but the soundtrack was the bridge of Nine Inch Nails' "Heresy." A pretty hard-driving techno metal bit for sure, but the chorus to that song is:


Your God is Dead
and no one cares
if there is a hell
I will see you there

I just knew whoever did the sound editing for that spot just KNEW there was no way the brain wizards at KSTP knew or cared where the music came from. I wonder how KSTP's core audience would've reacted, had they been aware....