Posts Tagged ‘Anthony Slaughter’

The columnist loves snow, because it fills the potholes.  If the Lord really cares, he’d have snow falling up.  When people tell you to go to hell this week, it’s a suggestion not an epithet.  It’s so cold, squirrels are burying Sterno.  It’s so cold in a neighbor’s house, when she opens the front door a small light in front goes on.  This week’s snow storm and winds are predicted to be the worst, unless your name is Dorothy and you have a dog named Toto.  And, the sun’s not coming out today. Would you come out on a day like this? Watching some of the coverage on television, the columnist was convinced the Weather Channel should have a yawn track. Not so with KSDK, Channel 5, where “The News Comes First,”  which was proven by its early start at 4 a.m. Monday – a full half-hour before its normal start – with Jennifer Blome and Anthony Slaughter, to name a few.  The station’s prez and g.m. Lynn Beall said the station “has been watching it for a number of days” and has been feeding the info online, through social media and on customer’s mobile phones and tablets.  Extraordinary coverage!  Over at KMOV, Channel 4, “The Price is Right” dominated a morning news block. At FOX2, Kevin Steincross and his team conducted interviews, including some with mayoral aide Jeff Rainford, who wore schoolboy chic.  Steincross did an exemplary job of the interview in which Rainford said the station is City Hall’s Operation Center.

Rumors that Dr. Henry Givens may step down as chief of Harris-Stowe State University were in abundance at the Missouri MLK Statewide Celebration Kick-Off Program the other night on the campus. However, Givens was in full command as an audience of 2,000 gave enthusastic hosanahs for the Rev. Al Sharpton.  The civil rights leader, who filled his keynote with humor, biblical tales and blunt street-talk, was caught twittering in Givens’ office, while Cong. Lacy Clay, Jr. and Cong. Russ Carnahan chowed-down.  KSDK, Channel 5′s most-watched education reporter and the station’s young, news/weather anchor Anthony Slaughter kept the program moving in a timely and pleasant pace. InBev AB’s John Furr and honorary chair of the event introduced Rev. Sharpton as “a transformational leader, a man who has challenged the American social and political establishment.”President Obama calls Rev. Sharpton ‘the voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden,”  said Furr. Rev. Sharpton mused, “You know, it’s amazing how many people marched with Dr. King.  They will tell you they marched with him and they are probably lying.”  Sharpton began his ministry at the age of  four.  Others getting their time in the spotlight were Robin Wright-Jones, Tishaura Jones, Mayor Slay, Charlie Dooley and Percy Green, who was heckled by an attendee, who was ejected from the room.  MIA was Gov. Jay Nixon, who only did a brief drive-by at a private pouring and then blew the Hood. On Sunday, just getting warmed-up from his Saturday night bombastic and poignant keynote, Rev. Sharpton accepted an invite to deliver a sermon to an SRO crowd at the Friendly Temple Baptist Church on Martin Luther King Drive. Faces in the crowd: the Rev. Earl Nance, Jr., James and Susan Buford, Merdean Gales, Ruth Smith, Gwen Packnett, Betty Thompson, Anita Banks, Frankie Muse Freeman, Stacy and Judge Jimmie Edwards, Judge Charles Shaw and wife, Kay, Argus publisher Yaphett El-Amin, Joe Keaveny and Lou Brock. (See photos taken by the Metro Evening Whirl).