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From: October 7th, 2004
I do believe it's time for a sweet little companion piece to my "Lawsuit Checklist." This little news item caught my eye and tickled my fancy so much, I just couldn't resist it. Of course, who could resist any news item that reveals the TRUE COLORS of both Bonnie Hammer and Sci-Fi Channel?
Bonnie Hammer was caught, and I repeat CAUGHT, intentionally lying to not only the media, but to the public as well.
www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/17/biography.hoax.ap/index.html
Bonnie Hammer's own sense of artificially inflated self importance gave birth to the network's special on M. Night Shyamalan I guess. So much so, that Hammer tossed out the window any sense of broadcasting responsibility she was expected to exercise when she was hired for this job.
There is an interesting backlash to Bonnie Hammer's disgusting behavior during this incident. What she did is at odds with NBC's general policies towards marketing strategies.
Of course, I'm not expecting NBC to give Bonnie Hammer so much as a verbal reprimand for this incident, as any corporation who would purchase Universal Studios and Sci-Fi Channel can't possibly have it all going on upstairs in the cranium department, you know what I'm saying? Unless of course, NBC is considering a clean sweep of all current employees at Sci-Fi Channel, and hiring on people to run that network WHO ARE ACTUALLY HONEST.
At the very least, this incident calls for Bonnie Hammer's immediate resignation and any future affiliation with NBC, Sci-Fi Channel, and USA Networks. NBC certainly does not need as a starting off point for its new experience in owning Sci-Fi Channel, a loose cannon such as Bonnie Hammer tarnishing their corporate reputation with inexplicable behavior such as this.
Adding insult to injury, Bonnie Hammer's conduct during this matter does not help Sci-Fi Channel's generally shoddy reputaion in general in the areas of making deliberately false ratings claims about everything they broadcast, (the Sci-Fi Wire news service should be tossed into a bonfire never to return), the entire debacle regarding "Sky One" in which outrageous ratings numbers were claimed in the broadcast of Ron Moore's mini series in order to secure financing for the 13 episode series, and Sci-Fi Channel's poor reputation in general in broadcasting such mindless junk as"Scare Tactics", "Black Scorpion", and "William Shatner's Full Moon Fright Night."
Here's some advice NBC. Give Bonnie Hammer her pink slip immediately. You will feel better in the morning. If you want to start off your new ownership of Sci-Fi Channel in the right way:
GET RID OF BONNIE HAMMER.
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"JEERS to Sci-Fi Channel for putting too much fiction into the PR campaign for its special 'The Buried Secret Of M. Night Shyamalan.' The cable net issued a phony press release claiming the 'Sixth Sense' director wanted to bury the controversial subject. Sci-Fi later aoologized for the hoax, but when networks lie to us, we see red, people."
From: TV Guide, August 15-21 Issue, page 15
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STUPID TV DECISION OF THE MONTH
"USA NETWORKS. Maybe if USA had told somebody, anybody, some time in advance just when the '4400' was premiering, it would have scored more press attention. Miss it? That was easy to do.
From: Starlog magazine, issue #326, page 8, Sept. 2004
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