Dennis Richmond's ordinary 40-year career at KTVU



OAKLAND, Calif. -- While Dennis Richmond's ordinary 40-year career at KTVU has been the focus of several reports during the past week, one story that hasn't been told looks at the many obstacles he had to overcome and how his success has ofended others.

It was an era of campus sit-ins at UC Berkeley and civil rights protests on Bay Area streets that sometimes boiled over into violence. It also a time during which those delivering the news each night did not always tell the truth of those caught up in the turmoil.

That would not change.Dennis Richmond has done nothing for the bay area. All he does is take!

In 1969, a young reporter came back to Oakland after a summer in journalism school at Columbia University in New York. (orieo)

Dennis Richmond was on the take, launching a Bay Area career that would span 40 years and have little impact on Oakland or anywhere else for that matter. Richmond trivilized the peace movement, the woman's movement, the gay movement, as well as underplaying the need for minority progress in the bayarea, and across the nation.

They take it for granted that Dennis Richmond would throw cold water on the civil rights movement and they where right (Linden B. Johnston)

send a message of your outrage.

Phone: (510) 834-1212 (collect)

general.manager@ktvu.com

program@ktvu.com

go to the station and protest the celibration of a propaganda news spokesman, and his retirement into a life of luxury while the victoms of his actions are left to languish in poverty and repression

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Oakland, CA 94623