Best Slam of “Best Of”: DCRTV Dave Takes Off the Gloves
Sure, there's no such thing as bad press in the era of the hit-counter. But damn if it don't hurt to be mocked on a site as grand as DCRTV.
"DC City Paper is out with its annual 'best of' issue. And it confirms that the weekly rag is pretty cluelessly brain dead about local TV and radio," writes the heroic DCRTV Dave.
Ouchie. DCRTV-D goes on to rail against our failure to cite local personalities such as "Elliot, Geronimo, the Junks, Cerphe, Russ Parr, Chris Core" etc...
No defense here, DCRTV-D, though we have weighed in on your idol and sponsor Chris Core recently. Hope we don't disappoint you so much next time around, DCRTV-D. And thanks for the hits.
4:24 pm
That DCRTV yutz won't be happy until every print outlet in this city devotes every page of every issue to coverage of local radio and TV.
1:40 pm
I heard Dave on an early broadcast of The Hideout. He's a handbag full of rainbows, he is.
2:38 pm
Give DCRTV Dave a break. That website has broken more stories concerning the happenings of DC radio and TV more times than any so-called "media" outlets in DC combined. Plus he allows a forum where readers can voice opinions, both good and bad. Dave is no wuss to taking his lumps from other sources...that comes from the territory and he recognizes that. To myself and other readers, though, it looks like plain and simple jealousy. And as they say back in oooooold Mexico City, AMF!
3:35 pm
But, and that's a big butt, a lot of the stories HFOR-D "breaks" are things he's heard on the radio or culled from the WaPO website the night before. Alternatively (take that any way you want) he'll whine that he doesn't get credit when the Post, for instance, reports something he's previously mentioned. Maybe that's because the Post has their own (multiple) sources, verifies the information, and didn't get it from DCRTV, so no need to give credit.
Example: DCRTV-D "broke" the story of Mike O'Meara buying Sign of the Whale restaurant. Small problem: it never happened. I could go on, but what's the pernt?
4:26 pm
4:40 pm EDT from WJFK-FM: today was the last installment of the the Sunday favorite, the Snack and Soda Show, with its hosts Snack and Soda. The reason given was the PD and sales staff being unable to get the job done in terms of sponsorship and live appearances. The feast... is ruined!
1:32 am
Majestic....wrong again! Dave reported that a purchase agreement was proposed for the Sign o' the Whale restaurant by Mike O'Meara and his business partner. The agreement was never legally binding and, consequently, never went through. Get your facts straight before you start shooting off at the mouth.
1:19 pm
July 12, 2006
O'Meara Buys DC Pub [this was the headline, written by HFOR-Dave]
WJFK-FM afternoon man Mike O'Meara will pick up DC M Street pub Sign Of The Whale. O'Meara won the Dupont Circle area property in bankruptcy court and plans to turn it into a second outlet of his O'Meara's Irish pub in Manassas. O'Meara and biz partner John Cantrell bid $390,000 to win the right to take over the bar from owner Glasgow.
So what you're saying is Handbag Full of Rainbows reported a scoop that wasn't true. Exxxxcelent, Smithers.