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What In The World Is Wrong With TEGNA, 9News And Kyle Clark?
Kyle Clark, 9NEWS superstar, is beginning to feel the vultures circling.
At one time, not that long ago, KUSA 9News was a powerhouse in the Denver media market with massive ratings and was lovingly called the “Mommy Channel” for its popularity with female viewers. But it seems all good things must come to end. Things started “Breaking Bad” when Kyle Clark floated into town from New York in 2007.
Over the years, the acerbic New Yorker eventually came to dominate 9NEWS and is literally almost impossible to escape if you tune into Channel 9. He hosts “Next with Kyle Clark” at 9 p.m. on weekdays, and if that is not enough, he is the news anchor for 9NEWS on its 10 p.m. broadcast. He also contributes reports for 9NEWS political coverage, the 9Wants to Know Investigative unit, and 9NEWS Storytellers. He is perhaps best known for getting into endless Twitter wars with scores of individuals across the Front Range.
Murder by 9News security guard Matthew Dolloff of Lee Keltner at pro police rally on October 10, 2020.
While 9NEWS ratings are beginning to take a dive, in an age where objective television news is considered passé, he gained admirers by putting his leftwing progressive views into all of his reporting. One never needs to wonder what his personal views are as it relates to any story. The bias reporting was clearly fine with KUSA Channel 9 parent company, the giant publicly traded media company TEGNA, Inc.
Lori Lizarraga
In recent times, however, the wheels appear to be coming off the once all-powerful media vehicle. In June 2020, Clark was furloughed by TEGNA as part of a company-wide cost saving strategy. Reporters for 9NEWS started to become so disliked by some the station began hiring armed security guards when they went to events.
Through a third party they engaged an unlicensed security guard, Matthew Dolloff, who shot and killed grandfather and military veteran Lee Keltner at a pro police rally in front of his son on October 10, 2020. Kyle Clark went into hiding with a security detail claiming he was taking an unannounced vacation. 9NEWS boarded up its windows and kept the staff at home for an extended COVID period. Dolloff was charged with 2nd degree murder by the Denver DA, and the Keltner family hired an attorney for possible legal action against Channel 9 and TEGNA.
Sonia Gutierrez
In March of this year Clark’s and 9NEWS’ reputation as being progressive took a tremendous hit. Lori Lizarraga wrote a scathing article in Westword: “LatinXed: 9News Got Rid of Three Latina Reporters This Past Year, Including Me,” detailing a pattern and practice of discrimination at the news station. In addition, one of TEGNA’s largest shareholders demanded that the company open its books and records to investigate what is being called a broad pattern of bias and racially insensitive behavior.
The investor stated that the allegations show “the roots of racist behavior within Tegna/Gannett are ugly and run deep” and are reflected in “egregious practices with Tegna/Gannett dating back decades.”
Kristen Aguirre
Gannett previously owned the broadcast business that is now stand alone TEGNA. TEGNA spun off the publishing business as Gannett in 2015.
And, of course, Kyle Clark went on an immediate unannounced vacation.
Perhaps Mr. Clark, TEGNA, and 9NEWS, and their phony “wokeness,” might just like to leave town and sell the station to some entity who would like to bring the station back to what it once was.
- Editorial Board
Would This All Be True If The All-Star Game Was Not Coming?
Suddenly out of the clear blue of the western sky the COVID-19 pandemic has ended. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. By now, the entire world knows that by a flip of the Imperial wrist, Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game is coming to Coors Field, a proclamation by our esteemed Emperor Jarius the First.
As you now know, social distancing has vanished, bars and restaurants will be open until closing time. There will be no social distancing at a sold-out game because the Emperor has proclaimed it.
There will be no concerns, no state of emergency. Nothing for you to fear. The COVID virus, my friends, is gone.
Now while all of this is being said, it was a laugh out loud funny moment when, the next day, the sub headline in the Drudge Report was “Colorado Next COVID hotspot.” Don’t worry about it. The 2021 All-Star Game is moving from Atlanta to Denver, Colorado.
Joe Biden spoke to ESPN and it’s almost impossible to count the lies that the President proclaimed about what he dubbed “Jim Eagle.” And watching all of this take place, I was totally stunned. There’s been a lot of comparison and analysis by smarter people than me about fact-checking Joe Biden’s claims about Colorado’s election law. I cite the Daily Signal. The Daily Signal has pointed out six claims including registration, on absentee ballots, my personal favorite, the crime to provide water, ending early voting, stopping drop boxes, Jim Crow, and voter ID.
As many of you know anybody who walks up to the will call box to the All-Star Game is going to have to do what? Show ID. When you go to cash a check you have to show ID. When you go to buy a firearm, you have to show an ID and take a background check. When you buy alcohol you have to show ID.
There is no consistency. Major League Baseball had no problem but now I’m asking what will happen when your Colorado Rockies go down and play the Atlanta Braves, a racist city. What’s the difference? What about your Denver Broncos when they play their Atlanta Falcons? Isn’t that state still racist? So it’s ok, but just not for the Major League All-Star game. Note to self, how easily Jared Polis pulled this string and apparently they totally negated Mayor Hancock whose city Denver allegedly is. Hancock doesn’t even show up in any of this for three days. Polis the Emperor takes the box. I believe this is part of the setup as Jared Polis makes his move toward the Presidency.
One of the things the woke media has not yet figured out is Denver’s baseball diamond is named after Joe Coors. You remember him in Ronald Reagan’s kitchen cabinet. He bankrolled Barry Goldwater, bankrolled the Mountain States Legal Foundation, and broke a union strike. How dare they come to that field and play?
So I’ve got some proposals. First let’s rename it Dominion Field. That will satisfy all the woke people. It will be interesting to see who gets to carry the game and how nobody in the Front Range media will touch these things.
I leave you with a quote I came across that cracked me up. When Major League baseball player John Kruk was asked in a conversation in a bar… “So you’re a professional athlete?” Kruk responded, “No, I’m a baseball player.”
Take me out to the ballgame.
— Peter Boyles
