Cameron's Blog

Regular readers know that I'm somewhat of a fan of WPTY/24 news anchor Cameron Harper. He's willing to express opinions and seems to understand that his job is serving the public. Cameron famously interviewed an empty chair when Mayor Herenton refused to participate in WPTY's Hurricane Elvis retrospective last year. He's been the only person willing to call Mayor Herenton on his behavior, in the famous incident where he asked the Mayor if he really would resign if it helped his plans. Very briefly, we saw a change in the local media's treatment of the Mayor, but since then things have sunk back down to the "same old, same old." Herenton has erected further walls between himself and the media and we the public are stuck with a press pool to craven to do anything about it.

Cameron, grab another mike and have another go, would ya?

Anyway, Cameron has been blogging for a while now. It's a company blog, so there's only so much he can say before he threatens his job, but he's still expressing opinion and giving a back-stage view of news production. I enjoy reading it in the same way I enjoy reading Darrell Phillips' and Peggy Philips' blogs.

I've been hoping we'd see an entry about what happened last week, where Cameron called the subject of one story a "fool" and a "chump" on air. I missed that newscast, but it sounds like classic Cameron. Nothing so far, but who knows?

I'll leave you with this bit of Cameron, talking about City Councillor Jack Sammons, talking about City Hall car allowances:

Sammons calls the car allowances “a minnow.” A minnow here… a minnow there, and pretty soon you’re talking about one fat catfish.

So fire up the grill, Cameron, and get roasting!