OK…due to excessive feedback I had to add a few more names to the NBC29 Hot or Not poll. I know they will be starting from behind, but hey…we’ll see how it goes. I think it is pretty clear that we have a frontrunner or two already. New pictures will get put up tomorrow.
After NBC29 we’ll head over to the other local networks and see what’s up over there. The top three from each network will make it in to the next round. Who will win the first annual Outskirts Award for Hottest of the Hot in Local Media Award? I have my favorite…but we can’t give away any secrets at this point of time 
The winner will receive $50 to donate to any charity of their choice.
Now…on to real news….
In the old (aka pre-web) days you could move to a new town when you wanted to and leave life behind. Stories, rumors, innuendo, and all that could be left behind. In the world today that is much harder. Wikipedia tracks you if you are famous or worthwhile, court records are posted online, and pointless blogs like this will continue to remind people that DMB is really DBM (the bowel movement dumpin’ band). Where has personal freedom gone, and does anyone really care?
And that brings us to the past. A tipster let me know that one person from NBC29 had a bad incident one night while out having a bit of fun. I personally think she has moved to a great location now. Based on some of my habits I think we might get along really well (drop me a line anytime). I enjoyed the half marathon after three martinis…although my time wasn’t quite as good as last year.
Another NBC29′er left here and is now a top dog in NYC (on a competitive network of course). CHO (the city, not the mass murderer) to NYC. Good deal. I wonder what he now thinks of the village. I know Tina Fey said in an interview that there really isn’t anything to remember about this place. She came, she saw, she left. The smart approach. Don Shula was here many years ago and said he’s never been back to Charlottesville, “It’s a little bit out of the way,” he said — but he remembers a well-groomed golf course on the outskirts of town. Gotta love the term outskirts getting in there!
So the final question. Does the past really matter? Good, bad, or otherwise?
No. Except of course for sports where you never forget.
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Admittedly; TV people are “public figures” and that opens them to criticism from all corners, some personal and some professional, and some deserved and some misguided.
Being inside the news business I can attest to the personal pain caused by people who hide behind blog comments and their venemous, snarky, and mean-hearted postings. They’ll say things hiding on a site that they’d NEVER have the courage to say to someone’s face… yet it hurts just the same.
So say what you’re going to say — but spend thirty seconds thinking about how it would land if it were written about you, being read by your friends, your family, or your children.
Just because we know where the lowest common denominator is doesn’t require us to stoop down to reach it.
DF
I actually thought quite a bit about this one after the tipster passed it along and delayed posting for quite a long time. It is a strange world we live in with this web thing. But eventually I went with it. I’ve never blocked anything a tipster has passed along (that is valid), so I went with it.
No one was hurt in the incident, and I think the former station was totally incorrect for what they did. I personally would have sued them, although I don’t really know what employment contracts for TV people look like.