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Friday Roundup: Roasting Shorty, Killing Wal-Mart, Acting Regionally, and Chatting about Money, Guns and Pets

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

City Maven Alice Walton provides more than you would ever want to know about the Herb Wesson roast last night at the Beverly Hilton — unless, she says, you ” love jokes about short men, strippers, the Korean community and … Continue reading →

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Ronnie’s Rants on Radio and TV: The NFL, HPV, Hoodies and Dream Act

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

KRLA-870 radio talk show host Kevin James and I talked Thursday about recent developments in the billionaires’ competition for an NFL stadium in the Los Angeles market with Ed Roski’s City of Industry plan gaining traction over Phil Anschutz’ because the … Continue reading →

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Advertisements for Myself: Radio, TV and Newspapers

Posted on June 27, 2011 by

Here’s my Sunday column for the Glendale-Burbank News-Press & Leader, followed by links to appearances on NBC’s “The Filter with Fred Roggin” and on Kevin James’ show on KRLA 870: The Political System Only Serves Itself Drive down any main … Continue reading →

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Check Out NBC’s “The Filter with Fred Roggin”

Posted on March 24, 2010 by

It’s my pleasure to be a weekly commentator with actress Debra Skelton on “The Filter with Fred Roggin,” an experiment in reinventing local TV news. It’s broadcast Monday-Thursday on NBC’s digital station  Channel 225 at 7:30 p.m. Starting soon, the … Continue reading →

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What I Believe, Right or Wrong…

Posted on February 1, 2010 by

I spent all my life struggling to put into words what I believe, what I feel, the truth as I see it. I thought somehow that is what it meant to be an American. I wrote and edited tens of … Continue reading →

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Jack Weiss vs. Ron Kaye on Channel 4

Posted on January 12, 2010 by

“The Filter with Fred Roggin” is being broadcast for the first time on Channel 4 today at 11:30 a.m. (after a six-month test on digital cable) and as luck would have it Jack Weiss and I wound up as facing … Continue reading →

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Reinventing Journalism: The Emerging New World Order of News

Posted on January 6, 2010 by

A few months after I happily, if involuntarily, left the newspaper business, TV sportscaster Fred Roggin pitched a wacky idea to me for a new type of fast-paced news commentary show he was trying to develop called “The Filter.” Roggin … Continue reading →

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