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Social media briefly erupted in Seattle about Fox 13's Aaron Levine posting laugh emojis about Druski's verbal gaffe at the NFL honors show Thursday night. He butchered Seahawks star JSN's name into an apparent racial slur while announcing the player's award. KIRO 97.3 talk host posted about it, calling Levine out disappointedly while not naming him.  But Levine stepped up and took the blame.  Apparently, all is well now.   Here is the sequence: From Gee Scott Sr.on X: Kinda disappointed when I see someone in Seattle media posting laughing emojis on social media about Druski's disrespect of JSN's name. Yes, I saw it before it was deleted. Hope all of us learn from this. From Aaron Levine on X in response: Gee, this was me and it was a big mistake and I apologize. I’m not familiar with Druski nor that he likely did that on purpose. Anyone deserves more respect for such an important honor, especially JSN. My knee-jerk reaction was childish and wrong but it had eve...

Fox 13's Sports Director Aaron Levine goes to 'great heights' to capture a Patriots practice at Stanford to help the Hawks.  Success?  Well, at least he kept himself out of Jeopardy!! https://x.com/i/status/2019578358997401896

  KOMO got spoofed by Saturday Night Live in a skit that was left on the cutting room floor.   Guess time was tight.   Anyway, have a chuckle: https://youtu.be/MD9knji2F0w?si=quG4VYdwhDCV7FPi

  At least KOMO topped KIRO's meaningless 'Play for the Bay' with this gem.   It seems that creativity has taken a sack.  No station is using 'Super or Seattle' in a promo line?  SMH.   SEATTLE GOES SUPER SEAHAWKS ARE SUPER 

I took a pledge NOT to watch all the coverage by the local stations at the Super Bowl this week.  I decided to avoid the pre-game hype, talk, and meaningless interviews at all costs.  Just want to see the game.  So, as a result, what are your thoughts on who's doing the best work this week on apps or on the newscasts?  Has KING won the week or Fox 13?   Has Eric Thomas and Horcher been effective?  How are Nike and Daniels faring.   Any thoughts on KIRO radio?     Please weigh in.

KOMO senior news reporter Chris Daniels  has officially been dispatched to the Super Bowl.  It was just a matter of time before joining Sports Director Niko Tamurian...or maybe upstaging him. https://x.com/i/status/2018866341692789138

Great shill 9:30 interview piece with the ABC mogul change today and David Muir lubricated his nest doing the job. Meaningless long form interview affecting no one while the country suffers, pushing out real news for people. Shameful. Look in the mirror, Muir. You are the conduit for this crap.  The show only has 22 minutes of news and this wasted most of it.  A new low and another reason no one trusts journalism as it does corporate PR.   Save this for GMA and have Strahan do it, a non-journalist, but I imagine the pressure on Muir was either great or he was thrilled to compromise himself.