{"id":27654,"date":"2020-11-23T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=27654"},"modified":"2020-11-23T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T12:00:09","slug":"robservations-abc-7s-cheryl-scott-forecasts-great-lakes-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/11\/23\/robservations-abc-7s-cheryl-scott-forecasts-great-lakes-peril\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: ABC 7's Cheryl Scott forecasts Great Lakes in peril"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Cheryl Scott<\/p><\/div>\n

Robservations on the media beat:<\/p>\n

ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7<\/a> is teaming with National Geographic<\/a>\u00a0to produce a five-part series on the fight to save the Great Lakes. ABC 7 meteorologist Cheryl Scott<\/strong> and scientists from National Geographic will present \"So Great, So Fragile\"<\/a> on successive Tuesdays, starting this week. Episodes will stream live on ABC 7\u2019s connected TV Apps on Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV and Roku. \"Whether for recreational use or drinking water, Chicagoans know the value of the Great Lakes, but may be unaware of factors threatening them,\" Scott said. \"In our series with\u00a0National Geographic, we get the chance to dig deeper on everything from climate\u00a0change to pollution, revealing the impact on one of our greatest natural resources. We also show how we can work together to protect, save and keep our lakes great.\"<\/p>\n

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Bruce St. James<\/p><\/div>\n

Bruce St. James,<\/strong> the longtime Phoenix radio personality who\u2019s replacing<\/a> Erich Mancow Muller<\/strong> as morning host at WLS 890-AM,<\/a> says he knows he\u2019s inheriting a broadcasting legacy. \u201cI\u2019m real excited for this. Without a doubt, this is an amazing opportunity,\u201d St. James told Facebook<\/a> friends shortly after news of his hiring broke here.<\/a> \u201cWLS is a legendary radio station that has had not just some of Chicago\u2019s greatest talents work there but some of radio\u2019s greatest talents. So I have a lot of work to do to prove myself worthy of the amazing history of WLS. . . . It\u2019s pretty cool and pretty exciting for me to get this really unique opportunity at such a big station and in such an interesting city. I\u2019m really looking forward to learning more about Chicago. I\u2019ve got a lot to learn. I\u2019m the guy from out of town, but I know that they\u2019ll be real welcoming.\u201d St. James debuts December 14 on the Cumulus Media news\/talk station.<\/p>\n

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Pat McGann<\/p><\/div>\n

Comedian Pat McGann<\/strong> opened Chicago\u2019s 62nd Emmy Awards Sunday night with a timely monologue. (Here is the link.<\/a>) \u201cYou should feel good if you just got nominated,\u201d McGann said. \u201cWe always say that, right? If you were nominated you should feel great about that. And if you don\u2019t win? Just go on Twitter and act like you did. Say the thing was rigged. The numbers were wrong. You can do that now. All facts are out the window. Thanks to you, Public Enemy No. 1. I\u2019m kidding! I, in fact, love the media. I have a lot of respect for what you\u2019re doing.\u201d The virtual event was sponsored by the\u00a0Chicago\/Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dahleen Glanton<\/p><\/div>\n

Congratulations to Chicago Tribune<\/a> columnist Dahleen Glanton<\/strong> on receiving the 2020 Dorothy Storck Award from the Chicago Journalists Association. <\/a>As winner of the $1,000 top prize, Glanton was cited for addressing diverse subjects \"with a keen interest in encouraging dialogue on race, poverty and violence.\" Also honored at the virtual awards ceremony Friday were two second-place winners \u2014 Burt Constable<\/strong> of the Daily Herald and Laura Washington<\/strong> of the Sun-Times and ABC 7. The award is named for the former reporter for Chicago\u2019s American and Chicago Today, syndicated columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner who died in 2015.<\/p>\n

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John F. Kennedy<\/p><\/div>\n

Sunday's comment of the day: <\/a>Les Jacobson:<\/strong> Everyone over the age of 65 or so remembers precisely where and when they heard the news [of President John F. Kennedy's assassination]. It was tragic and earth-shaking. As Norman Mailer wrote: \u201cIt is virtually not assimilable to our reason that a small lonely man felled a giant in the midst of his limousines, his legions, his throng, and his security. If such a non-entity destroyed the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, then a world of disproportion engulfs us, and we live in a universe that is absurd.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 is teaming with National Geographic\u00a0to produce a five-part series on the fight to save the Great Lakes. ABC 7 meteorologist Cheryl Scott and scientists from National Geographic will present \"So Great, So Fragile\" on successive Tuesdays, starting this week. Episodes will stream live on ABC 7\u2019s connected... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27654"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27666,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27654\/revisions\/27666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}