Steinberg Speaks Truth RE: Saunders/Feder

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Posted by Eric N. on May 11, 2009 at 11:32:49:

A blurb in Neil Steinberg's Sunday SunTimes column really rang true with those of us who saw massive amounts of irony in Warner Saunders' upcoming $350-a-plate dinner in his honor, when he publicly & wrongly skewered former SunTimes columnist Robert Feder when he was feted last February. Check it out!

Kazoos will bleat the awful truth
Last February, veteran WMAQ-TV news anchor Warner Saunders showed up at the annual meeting of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and denounced their guest of honor, former Sun-Times TV/radio columnist Robert Feder, launching into a premeditated, typed-out tirade accusing Feder of being a racist for occasionally criticizing black on-air personalities as if they were professionals subject to criticism, the same as white media personalities.
Afterward, readers who knew of the incident wondered why I didn't write about it, why I didn't sally to Rob's defense. The honest answer is that, charitable man that I am, I viewed Saunders' outburst as a cringingly humiliating, ego-driven blunder that it would be cruel to hold him accountable for. Better to give him the pass that he so obviously feels entitled to.

Now, however, that WMAQ is preparing a festival to honor the career of Saunders, I thought it was high time to check in with Rob, enjoying a well-deserved post-Sun-Times sabbatical, to see whether Saunders, in a more lucid moment, had sought him out to apologize.

Nope? Not a word? Well, then, it doesn't seem fair that Feder should have his big evening spoiled in such a rude and undeserved fashion, while Saunders gets to bask in unmitigated praise at his $350-a-plate fete at the Museum of Broadcast Communications. I feel inspired to form the Neil Steinberg Kazoo Band of Derision, and show up at "A Salute to Warner Saunders" on May 16 to play my original composition, "Take Your Criticism Like A Man, Warner."

Or would that be sinking to his level? I guess you're right. Perhaps the best course is to let the fulsome plaudits rain down upon Saunders, while everyone in the room struggles to ignore the plain truth: that they all wish Saunders had retired last year, before he so badly embarrassed himself.

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: A blurb in Neil Steinberg's Sunday SunTimes column really rang true with those of us who saw massive amounts of irony in Warner Saunders' upcoming $350-a-plate dinner in his honor, when he publicly & wrongly skewered former SunTimes columnist Robert Feder when he was feted last February. Check it out! : = : Kazoos will bleat the awful truth : Last February, veteran WMAQ-TV news anchor Warner Saunders showed up at the annual meeting of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and denounced their guest of honor, former Sun-Times TV/radio columnist Robert Feder, launching into a premeditated, typed-out tirade accusing Feder of being a racist for occasionally criticizing black on-air personalities as if they were professionals subject to criticism, the same as white media personalities. : Afterward, readers who knew of the incident wondered why I didn't write about it, why I didn't sally to Rob's defense. The honest answer is that, charitable man that I am, I viewed Saunders' outburst as a cringingly humiliating, ego-driven blunder that it would be cruel to hold him accountable for. Better to give him the pass that he so obviously feels entitled to. : Now, however, that WMAQ is preparing a festival to honor the career of Saunders, I thought it was high time to check in with Rob, enjoying a well-deserved post-Sun-Times sabbatical, to see whether Saunders, in a more lucid moment, had sought him out to apologize. : Nope? Not a word? Well, then, it doesn't seem fair that Feder should have his big evening spoiled in such a rude and undeserved fashion, while Saunders gets to bask in unmitigated praise at his $350-a-plate fete at the Museum of Broadcast Communications. I feel inspired to form the Neil Steinberg Kazoo Band of Derision, and show up at "A Salute to Warner Saunders" on May 16 to play my original composition, "Take Your Criticism Like A Man, Warner." : Or would that be sinking to his level? I guess you're right. Perhaps the best course is to let the fulsome plaudits rain down upon Saunders, while everyone in the room struggles to ignore the plain truth: that they all wish Saunders had retired last year, before he so badly embarrassed himself.

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