redstar2000
5th May 2006, 17:38
One of the "symptoms" of a ruling class "in decay" is an increased inability to think rationally in terms of its own class interests.
Here's an example...
Originally posted by San Francisco Weekly
But Can He Predict the Weather?
f you think there's something different about the address above the entrance of KRON television headquarters, the fortresslike building at 1001 Van Ness Avenue, you're right. The number 552 has been added.
The reason?
A station exec's astrologer advised that 1001 was a bad number for business.
And business at San Francisco's venerable Channel 4 hasn't been good lately. Advertising is down, its entertainment and local news shows lag in the ratings, and parent company Young Broadcasting, which spent $825 million to buy KRON in 2000, is swimming in red ink.
So the station's honchos turned to East Bay astro-numerologist Jesse Kalsi to provide a "patch," which is numerology lingo for fixing a bad number. Now, what you see over the door is 1001552.
"Obviously, there are skeptics who think it's a bunch of hooey, but I can tell you things seem to have improved since the change," says KRON Programming Director Pat Patton, who says he brought in the psychic with the approval of station management.
Others scoff at the suggestion that astrology is the answer to the station's woes. "It's nuts, what can I say?" says a staffer, who, like others who roll their eyes at the numerology experiment, insists on anonymity.
One person who doesn't mind being quoted, however, is recently departed former news producer Kevin McCormick. "It encapsulates the absurdity of the place that a numerologist could influence a decision to alter the street address of a television station," he says.
Meanwhile, the KRON door patch is paying dividends for Kalsi. In early April, he appeared as a guest on a KRON weekend interview show and the programming boss says he's entertaining the idea of finding a permanent on-air gig for the psychic. "He deals with marriage problems, health problems, financial problems," Patton says. "We'll see what the future holds."
http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2006-05-03/...kafreecity.html (http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2006-05-03/news/suckafreecity.html)
It's known, I think, that the de facto President of the U.S. during Reagan's second term was Nancy Reagan's astrologer.
Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Who is George W. Bush's "spiritual adviser"? :o
And good luck to you if you ever find yourself looking for the "10,000 block" of Van Ness Avenue. If it existed, it would be at the bottom of the San Francisco Bay. :lol:
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Here's an example...
Originally posted by San Francisco Weekly
But Can He Predict the Weather?
f you think there's something different about the address above the entrance of KRON television headquarters, the fortresslike building at 1001 Van Ness Avenue, you're right. The number 552 has been added.
The reason?
A station exec's astrologer advised that 1001 was a bad number for business.
And business at San Francisco's venerable Channel 4 hasn't been good lately. Advertising is down, its entertainment and local news shows lag in the ratings, and parent company Young Broadcasting, which spent $825 million to buy KRON in 2000, is swimming in red ink.
So the station's honchos turned to East Bay astro-numerologist Jesse Kalsi to provide a "patch," which is numerology lingo for fixing a bad number. Now, what you see over the door is 1001552.
"Obviously, there are skeptics who think it's a bunch of hooey, but I can tell you things seem to have improved since the change," says KRON Programming Director Pat Patton, who says he brought in the psychic with the approval of station management.
Others scoff at the suggestion that astrology is the answer to the station's woes. "It's nuts, what can I say?" says a staffer, who, like others who roll their eyes at the numerology experiment, insists on anonymity.
One person who doesn't mind being quoted, however, is recently departed former news producer Kevin McCormick. "It encapsulates the absurdity of the place that a numerologist could influence a decision to alter the street address of a television station," he says.
Meanwhile, the KRON door patch is paying dividends for Kalsi. In early April, he appeared as a guest on a KRON weekend interview show and the programming boss says he's entertaining the idea of finding a permanent on-air gig for the psychic. "He deals with marriage problems, health problems, financial problems," Patton says. "We'll see what the future holds."
http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2006-05-03/...kafreecity.html (http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2006-05-03/news/suckafreecity.html)
It's known, I think, that the de facto President of the U.S. during Reagan's second term was Nancy Reagan's astrologer.
Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Who is George W. Bush's "spiritual adviser"? :o
And good luck to you if you ever find yourself looking for the "10,000 block" of Van Ness Avenue. If it existed, it would be at the bottom of the San Francisco Bay. :lol:
http://www.websmileys.com/sm/cool/123.gif