Catching Up with Former KTVU Anchor Leslie Griffith
We last heard from Channel 2 news reader Leslie Griffith about a year ago. 2006 was certainly quite a year for her. M&R reported on the controversy surrounding a column from the March 7th, 2006 Oakland Tribune entitled, "How long do we put up with Leslie Griffith?''
(Don't go looking for this somewhat mean-spirited article online kids - it's been electronically dissappeared. Or rather, it does not appear where one would expect to find it on the any of the Internets. It must be tough to read an article like that when you are used to coverage like this)
So, then there was this whole Leslie Griffith Watch thing, and then she left the station. But not after expressing some disillusionment with the state of the broadcast news industry, as ably recorded by the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club.
O.K. then. But now it's "balls to the wall time" for her fellow Texan Dan Rather, so she penned a rousing column that got picked up on the Huffington Post. Details after the jump
So Leslie has read up on nutty Dan Rather's legal brief and she's all for it. Well, that's fine. But we know what we saw. Have you seen the animated gif? If you want to get into this, click here. And if you really, really want to get into it, click here.
Now it's very possible that the larger point being made about George Bush and corporations and the media is "true"- it's basically up for you to decide of course. But if you don't need some iffy documents to make your point, why use them? Maybe CBS wanted to get rid of Dan for other reasons as well. We might find out as the lawsuit continues.
But back to Leslie. Her campaign is getting some local support, so good for her. She maintains a somewhat self-laudatory website here and she's working on a book entitled Shut Up and Read. Lovely.
Now, you're caught up with Leslie Griffith!