Seacaucus, N.J.-based WWOR-TV's JoAnn Pileggi checks in with Jersey blog readers and shares how getting not getting her contract renewed in NEPA was the best thing that ever happened to her. Since moving, she's even gotten to cover Springsteen! And Bon Jovi!
Friday, February 08, 2008
Former NEPA TV newser JoAnn Pileggi: Sharing tape is for suckers
Seacaucus, N.J.-based WWOR-TV's JoAnn Pileggi checks in with Jersey blog readers and shares how getting not getting her contract renewed in NEPA was the best thing that ever happened to her. Since moving, she's even gotten to cover Springsteen! And Bon Jovi!
hose monster!!!!!
ReplyDeleteShe's attractive, yes.
ReplyDeleteA bad day anywhere beats a winter's day in NEPA.
ReplyDeleteJust one of many former NEPA TV people working in NYC. Did a fine job anchoring, but an even better job as a reporter.
ReplyDeletehose monster? there has to be a story there...
ReplyDeleteJoAnn arrived about the time I left 22. I met her once at Tink's or Farley's I believe. Seemed okay.
ReplyDeleteI have some info on other former 22ers if anyone cares.
Me? aw who cares...;-)
what I've been doing lately for fun
http://www.losttownsvideo.com
Coming obviously very late to this conversation, but I know personally for a fact, she cheated on a friend of mine with Rob Letteri (local photographer in scranton) she’s a Ho !!!!
DeleteAny truth to the rumors about her and former DA Mike Barasse?
ReplyDeleteshe was with barrasse
DeleteThat, I don't know as she was after my time, but there were other rumours about Mike with a former Scranton beat reporter. have no idea if they were true, but I remember them.
ReplyDeleteMike's a judge now.
There is a police report that has floated around the TT newsroom that stated Pileggi was the only occupant of the car that flipped onto its side. MB was rumored to have been the driver but hid in a nearby store when police responded to the accident.
ReplyDeleteI know someone who worked/works in the courthouse...he saw them holding hands more than once...
ReplyDeleteHmmm....
She needs to re-visit her departure from WYOU/WBRE. Seems to me she was terminated after failing to show for work three days in a row, it had zero to do with any contract renewal. If that info is incorrect, anyone is welcome to challenge it.
ReplyDelete10:22 now that you mention that, it does sound familiar
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize Teri Simonich was posting here.
ReplyDeleteHose monster? Of course, she's Italian.
ReplyDeleteI think Howard Beale just returned from the grave.
ReplyDeletethe lack of precise, attuned, intellectual thought, on this blog is intriguing. I hope it is not the state of consciousness of our local reporters / media / and, or arm-chair-critics. So be it that, if the one's who reveal sunshine upon the darkness of municipal and county government, are posting on this blog, then we as so-called knowledgeable journalists, are doing a great disservice to ourselves and the public. I would think this forum would contain a substantive discussion of the issues and people; however, maybe we just have here a bunch of flunkies...turn in your two-week notices and try a marketing career. It's a good way to sell yourself, and a great place for the attitudes - the ego - bounded on these pages.
ReplyDeletethe lack of precise, attuned, intellectual thought, on this blog is intriguing. I hope it is not the state of consciousness of our local reporters / media / and, or arm-chair-critics. So be it that, if the one's who reveal sunshine upon the darkness of municipal and county government, are posting on this blog, then we as so-called knowledgeable journalists, are doing a great disservice to ourselves and the public. I would think this forum would contain a substantive discussion of the issues and people; however, maybe we just have here a bunch of flunkies...turn in your two-week notices and try a marketing career. It's a good way to sell yourself, and a great place for the attitudes - the ego - bounded on these pages.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, could you repeat that?
ReplyDeleteThe meaning is not hidden; the statement is expressed in a logical and non-elusive fashion.
ReplyDeleteIf I recall, Pileggi had a blow out with a WBRE reporter. I can't remember his name because he wasn't there long, but it happened immediatley after the Lakie Carey tornadoes. Pileggi kept getting in BRE's live shot and standups. Then afterwards, Pileggi didn't come to work for three or four days and she was canned.
ReplyDeleteSmoke em' if you got em'
Those looking for precise, attuned, intellectual thought by and for knowledgeable journalists and substantive discussion of issues and people are advised to post on this new blog,
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6:48 that reminds me of a story....
ReplyDeleteand the day came when the 21st century dawned, and the new American Generation, Y - why?, offered civilization, a tv remote, a video game, a bag of chips, and profound thoughts such as "asshat." The day came when those who may have asked for a dialectic, were shot down, by bruised egos who didn't give a damn for the Socratic method, but gave a damn that they could flick on a fine TV show, and giggle their way into sleep.
ReplyDeleteWhitman:
ReplyDeleteIs there a Pulitzer Prize for pompous pedantry? Go for it, duuuuude!
I'm not Generation Y, I'm a gorramned Baby Boomer and proud of it, and I'm the one who popularized "asshat," so bite me you pompous dickweed.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much.
Asshat was over about five years ago. It's only because some buttwipe like Jimmy Kimmel figured out he could say it on TV that it went beyond the Internets.
ReplyDeleteAsshat was first popularized by fark.com.
People who use the word asshat are themselves, asshats.
What's this, NEPA journalism picking up a catchphrase just in time for it to be archaic?
ReplyDeleteLove it! I hear the cool folks in NEPA will be getting iPods soon!
ReplyDeleteFinally, an enjoyable debate! Now let's turn it somewhere...., and don't afraid to be "pompous." Expressing yourself through well-placed words, and dare I say, thoughts, is not so...bad, dude.,
ReplyDeleteLet's get back to JoAnn.
ReplyDeleteCome to me, you Italian mama!
What's an iPod? Is that like a Walkman?
ReplyDeleteClever, succinct, pungent, vivid -- in NEPA, "asshat" is just about as good as it gets. Please don't try to take away my "asshat."
ReplyDeleteYou all are f_ _ ked up. Poseurs. Sad.
ReplyDeleteya know, I tink I saw a couple two tree asshats up da mall one time, or mebbe dat was up de Eynon.
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ReplyDeleteNow that I have a few minutes.
ReplyDeleteBack to what 6:48 reminded me of.
There was a train derailment in Taylor, they had evacuated much of the area and the command center was at a firehouse I believe. (It has been a while).
Both Rich Noonan from WBRE (remember him?) and I were doing live shots for our respective stations. There wasn't much room for us, the cameras, cameramen and lights, so we were shoulder to shoulder. At that time both our stations, and probably 16, would do "headlines" before the show open.
Sometimes just anchor VO, but many times reporters either on tape or in this case, a live headline.
We always used to remark about how the different stations clocks were different. Well, not that night.
Both Rich and I hit our live shot headlines at the exact same moment. BAM! we were both on the air, saying something to the effect "I'm Bill Mecca/Rich Noonan live in Taylor where authorities have evacuated residents because of a dangerous train derailment, I'll have that story."
Both of us, inches apart, delivering nearly the exact same line at the exact same time. We held our ground and when we were clear, broke up and gave each other a high five. We could have easily "lost it" while on the air, but fortunately we didn't. That's not to say later in that same newscast other things didn't go awry, but that is another story for another day.
Has anyone heard where Rich is these days? last time we met up he was anchoring at 29 in Philly.
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ReplyDeleteTV TYPES:
ReplyDeleteFYI, "Howard Beale" has an explanation and a farewell post on his web site. You know where it is.
Can it be linked over to this site? I have long since deleted that and The Watcher...what happened to him/her?
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