{"id":9104,"date":"2015-10-13T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=9104"},"modified":"2015-10-13T06:19:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T11:19:10","slug":"robservations-orions-back-in-the-saddle-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/10\/13\/robservations-orions-back-in-the-saddle-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Orion\u2019s back in the saddle again"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Orion<\/a>

<\/a> Orion Samuelson<\/p><\/div>\n

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

One month after undergoing heart surgery,<\/a> Radio Hall of Famer Orion Samuelson<\/strong> returns Tuesday to Steve Cochran\u2019s<\/strong> morning show on Tribune Media news\/talk WGN AM 720. <\/a>Samuelson, 81, will broadcast from his home while recuperating from heart-valve replacement September 14. \u201cNow that I have this recovery time at home to contemplate life, world events, who will win the World Series and college football championship . . . and what our final crop production numbers will be for 2015, I have reached one very firm conclusion. We are very fortunate to live in a time when we have the people and their knowledge to improve our way of life and to make it healthier, safer and more enjoyable if we deal with it responsibly,\u201d the legendary agribusiness reporter\u00a0wrote <\/a>Monday. \u201cI know for sure that I do want to live in this world of technology, not in the world of anonymous bloggers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Sarah<\/a>

Sarah Karp<\/p><\/div>\n

A deep bow to reporter Sarah Karp,<\/strong> whose diligent investigative work at Catalyst Chicago<\/a>\u00a0in 2013 led directly to the indictment<\/a> last week of former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett<\/strong> for a $23 million bribery scheme. Politico\u2019s<\/a> Natasha Korecki<\/strong> hailed Karp\u2019s achievement as a \u201ctriumph of beat reporting.\u201d Karp joined the Better Government Association<\/a> as a senior investigator earlier this year. A Chicago native and graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, she previously worked for the Chicago Reporter and the Daily Southtown.<\/p>\n

\"Kendra<\/a>

Kendra G<\/p><\/div>\n

Not everyone is buying what Kendra Gilliams<\/strong> is selling. The morning co-host known as \u201cKendra G\u201d on iHeartMedia urban contemporary WGCI FM 107.5<\/a> is challenging all middle school, high school and college girls to say no to sex for the school year. \u201cThe\u00a0Abstinence is Kool\u00a0<\/a>movement is my baby,\u201d she said in a statement. \u201cI truly feel as though God put this initiative in my heart to help young girls know that they don't have to have sex in order to be Kool. . . . I know this movement will have a major impact on the girls in Chicago.\u201d The hypocrisy wasn\u2019t lost on one skeptic, who wrote: \u201cHas she listened to the lyrics of the music she's playing on WGCI?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Mancow<\/a>

Mancow Muller<\/p><\/div>\n

Two Chicago radio morning personalities have guest-starring roles Wednesday on a couple of primetime network series. Mancow Muller,<\/strong> morning host on Cumulus Media classic rock WLUP FM 97.9,<\/a> plays a DJ on \u201cCriminal Minds,\u201d the CBS police procedural drama. Series star Joe Mantegna<\/strong> directed the episode, \u201c \u2019Til Death Do Us Part.\u201d\u00a0And Mason Schreader,<\/strong> morning host on iHeartMedia country WEBG FM 95.5,<\/a> plays a DJ on \u201cNashville,\u201d the ABC country music drama. Joanna Kerns<\/strong> directed the episode, \u201cThe Slender Threads That Bind Us Here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Irika<\/a>

Irika Sargent<\/p><\/div>\n

Although she doesn\u2019t start on the air until next week, Irika Sargent<\/strong> turned up Monday at CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2.<\/a> Just in from CBS-owned WFOR-TV in Miami, she\u2019ll co-anchor the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts with Rob Johnson.<\/strong> Sargent replaces Kate Sullivan,<\/strong> who was dropped <\/a>after five years. \u201cYou have a lot of nerve,\u201d one unabashed fan wrote the Miami Herald.<\/a> \u201cYou move to Miami, you make everyone love you and now you\u2019re leaving for a Chicago station? I haven\u2019t been hurt like this since Eddie Fisher<\/strong> left Debbie Reynolds.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Sam<\/a>

Sam Stecklow<\/p><\/div>\n

You may never read a more devastating takedown of the\u00a0Sun Times Network <\/a>than this post for\u00a0The Awl,<\/a> written by former intern\u00a0Sam Stecklow:<\/strong>\u00a0The Chicago End-Times: The slow humiliation of Chicago\u2019s most vital newspaper.<\/a><\/em> For another view, there\u2019s this post from Jackie Spinner,<\/strong> Columbia Journalism Review<\/a> correspondent and assistant journalism professor at Columbia College: A plan to turn this local paper into a national brand helped make a mess of its website. <\/a><\/em>Both expose an aggregated-content delivery scheme that\u2019s all smoke and mirrors.<\/p>\n

\"Dennis<\/a>

Dennis Moore<\/p><\/div>\n

There\u2019s a familiar voice back on WFMT FM 98.7.<\/a> Dennis Moore<\/strong> has returned to the Window to the World Communications classical music station as program host and producer from 7 to 11 a.m. Saturdays and from 7 to 10 a.m. Sundays. He succeeds Candice Agree,<\/strong> who moved up<\/a> to weekday afternoons. Moore first joined WFMT in 1990 and served as program director from 1997 to 2004. He signed off as a host and producer in 2014.<\/p>\n

\"Louie<\/a>

Louie Robinson<\/p><\/div>\n

Louie Robinson,<\/strong> a pioneering African-American journalist who wrote for newspapers in Dallas and Baltimore before joining Chicago-based Johnson Publishing,<\/a> died of heart failure October 2, two days before his 89th birthday. He was the father of veteran Chicago news anchor Robin Robinson<\/strong> and five other children. \"Never in my life have I known a better man,\" actor Sidney Poitier<\/strong> said in a tribute<\/a> to the former Ebony magazine editor. \"His life was an experience that will leave behind memories of major importance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: One month after undergoing heart surgery, Radio Hall of Famer Orion Samuelson returns Tuesday to Steve Cochran\u2019s morning show on Tribune Media news\/talk WGN AM 720. Samuelson, 81, will broadcast from his home while recuperating from heart-valve replacement September 14. \u201cNow that I have this recovery time at home to... 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\/9104"}],"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=9104"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9125,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104\/revisions\/9125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}