<\/a>Dennis Welsh<\/p><\/div>\n
Who are these guys?<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Dennis Welsh, the vice president and general manager just in from Orlando (and the station's third general manager in four years), delivered a haughty and patronizing lecture to viewers in the guise of an editorial about nepotism in Illinois. He did so while seated on a throne.<\/p>\n
Leading the newsroom is Tom Doerr, the station's fourth news director in four years and a man whose numerous news management jobs never included one in Chicago. Just eight months after he came up from Houston (the same station that employed both Hamilton and Bomke), staffers say Doerr has so insulated himself that they've given up trying to communicate with him.<\/p>\n
It's no wonder that Dominick Stasi just bailed out after only a year as executive producer of \"Good Day Chicago\" to become exec producer of both the 5 and 9 p.m. weekday newscasts at Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9 and oversee the newsroom at CLTV.<\/p>\n
\"Dominick is creative, thoughtful and a strong leader,\" WGN news director Greg Caputo said. \"He's a team builder with lots of ideas and a vision for the future of our evening newscasts.\" Obviously, there's no place for a guy like that at Fox 32.<\/p>\n
\"Doerr thinks he can research his way out of every problem, and fancies himself to be smarter than everyone, but doesn't understand a thing about Chicago,\" one Fox 32 insider told me. \"He directs the morning show people to focus entirely on 'solving women's problems.' He wants to make the newscast look and feel like the cover of Redbook \u2014 his actual example. It's generic and shallow and fake and not news.<\/p>\n
\"All the women in the newsroom say it's completely offensive to say busy women in Chicago only want to know 'how to blow out their hair perfectly,' 'get fuller eyebrows,' 'find the perfect fall shoes' or 'attract a man with the right smile.' That's not what people in this city have come to expect from a newscast. It'll never work.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The parade of unknowns continues at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32. Melody Mendez, host of \"The Everyday Show\" on KDVR-TV, the Fox affiliate in Denver, and Jake Hamilton, entertainment reporter at KRIV-TV, the Fox-owned station in Houston, are the latest imports headed for \"Good Day Chicago.\"<\/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\/883"}],"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=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}