Not since Quentin Tarantino obliterated hat-fetishist/movie reviewer Jan Wahl has KRON 4 become THIS irrelevant. (Pam Moore aside. We love Pam Moore. Moore = relevance. Pam Moore = San Francisco.) Take, for example, how the struggling news network recently booked and then unbooked Charles Feldman and Howard Rosenberg, media critics behind No Time to Think: The Menace of Media Speed and the 24-hour News Cycle, which they planned on promoting on the former NBC affiliate.

It seems that KRON 4 news director Aaron Pero recently canceled the interview because, according to an email sent to the authors' publicist, "I am not all that interested in a book that is going to be critical of what we do as a business." Which makes sense. In some ways. What with the economy, blah, etc., whatever. But this would've been a prime opportunity for KRON 4 to own the sheer joy that is today's news, the fun of the 24-hour news network.

Really, Pero, you should have set them up with lucid-free Gary Radnich. He would have promptly told Feldman and Rosenberg to go beat off to Good Night, and Good Luck for the umpteenth time. Only he would have slurred it. Alas.