media creates media circus
tommyApparently Bubba the Love Sponge is back on the radio in Tampa Bay. The only ones who care are the other media outlets.
Around 10am Tuesday, Bubba the Love Sponge was top of the fold big front page news at Tampabay.com, tbo.com, wfla.com, and MyFoxTampaBay.com. BTLS was on equal billing with other real local news on TampaBays10.com.
Online, at least, Bay News 9 and ABCActionNews.com didn’t treat this as the second coming. But they were there, according to Eric Deggans, who was blogging from Clem’s studio Tuesday morning:
A host of local media has crowded into Clem’s cramped broadcast studio, including reporters from WTVT-Ch. 13, WTSP-Ch. 10, WFTS-Ch. 28 and Bay News 9. NBC affiliate WFLA-Ch. 8 also sent a camera and the Tampa Tribune is expected to show soon.
Deggans is a media critic, so his being there makes sense, but does this seriously merit five TV stations and two daily newspapers?
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January 9th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
and he got you to write about it, the same old Bubba, he knows how to get media attention.
January 9th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Well, you gotta bear in my mind that Florida is the only state with its own Fark tag. Goes a long way toward explaining the fluffy crap local media covers. Everything else local is too frightening or depressing.
January 9th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
I agree, Tommy. Part of Big Media’s problem is they are so self-absorbed they think of their spokespeople as Big Stars. They don’t realize the Big Fish in their little pond are only minnows in the ocean the rest of us are swimming around in.
Because I regard ABC Flashpoint’s Brendan McLaughlin as an especially intelligent newsman, I was particularly dismayed to see him write on his blog:
Although Clem has craftily branded himself with a moniker that sticks in people’s brains even though many don’t really know what he’s famous for, I just don’t think he’s anywhere near as famous as the local media thinks — certainly not in Tampa Bay’s Top 5. Most people I know have never heard his radio show, we wouldn’t recognize him on the street, and we couldn’t care less what he’s doing.
January 9th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
here piggy, piggy……..
January 9th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Bubba is the truest embodiment of the Tampa Bay ethos, and this is not a good thing.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:51 am
How did he get another job here? already it has been “bitch” this and “bitch” that — and that is just in the ads for his rant that he calls a show. I want my airwaves back.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Deggans appears to have turned into a PR flack for Bubba. Ain’t saying it’s true, that’s just how it appears. Don’t anybody get offended. (I realize that’s like lighting the fuse and telling the firecracker not to pop.)
January 10th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Who cares ?
January 10th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Bubba is a Howard Stern wannabe. He has always copied him and has never done anything original in my opinion. His show only appeals to trailer park men. MJ can be annoying at times, but I do find most of his show entertaining and also enjoy the other personalities on the show. Bubba’s sidekick Ned is horrible. His voice is annoying and he isn’t funny at all.