Hard to follow a favorite sports team in the US, everything is about big corporate money all the time, and once you are hooked in they just keep turning the screws to extract cash. NY Knicks are now spread across MSG (not available to me on Sling), Prime, ESPN, Peacock, NBC, ABC...have to keep checking listings to find out where a game is available, adding/deleting $ervices, watching games in bars, etc.
At first it seemed that CBS’ lurch to the right under Ellison and Weiss was more focused on the national than the local news, but maybe they were just a little slow to get around to it. Here in NYC we had a visit today from the English king and apparently Mayor Mandami had said previously if they met privately he might raise the question of the Kohinoor diamond, a piece of colonial booty that some countries are unhappy to have in monarchical hands. But Mandami didn’t meet privately with the king, they just exchanged smiles, hand shakes and small talk in a receiving line. But since the lunatic NY Post did a story attacking Mandami for the thought (as well as for not meeting privately with the king to deliver it, a nice trick), the CBS affiliate here had to run a whole story pretending that Mandami criticized the king to his face, with four different people saying how insulting it was, how the mayor should just shut up and dribble, and now British tourists will not visit NYC and we will all suffer the lost revenue.
More to come…