LAObserved -- Demoting one or two Latino anchors may be a coincidence, but "demoting five in the past year raises suspicions," writes Julio Moran, executive director of CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California, in a letter to KNBC president and general manager Craig Robinson.
Last month's shift of Ana Garcia from the 6 p.m. anchor chair to the investigative beat has been the most high-profile demotion of a Latino at the station lately.
If Robinson cares to do anything about it, he just got the right title. He's leaving Channel 4 to become chief diversity officer for all of NBC. Announced Wednesday, his job change has its own coincidence attached. He's succeeding Paula Madison, herself a former station manager at KNBC.
Comcast's new president of NBC Local Media, Valari Dobson Staab, was in Burbank recently and reportedly told a meeting of staffers that the station has become notoriously sloppy on the air.
Dobson Staab also rebuked the apparently unpopular VP and news director, Vickie Burns, by killing her pet digital project and the midday show "Daily Connection." One Channel 4 insider offers another note about Burns: she doesn't drive, and some in the newsroom think that's why Channel 4 didn't have a coverage plan for Carmageddon until hours before the freeway closure.
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