For the Hawaii people in tha house, comes word that Honolulu news uber-anchor Joe Moore, who has led the No. 1 newscast in the islands for almost 20 years, is indeed a fraud. Moore does little actual work in his job as KHON-TV newsreader, which allows him ridiculous side hobbies, like portraying Will Rogers and writing poorly done plays. His latest, "Dirty Laundry," which was recently performed at the Hawaii Theater, revolved around a broadcaster juggling a need for ratings with his own personal ethics.
The irony, of course, is that Joe Moore has no ethics. His play's plot was ripped off from a bad 1986 TV movie "News at Eleven," according to the Honolulu Advertiser (which put together an extensive chart chronicling the similarities).
For us in Los Angeles, the parallel is recently deposed KNBC weatherman Christopher Nance, who was finally sacked after it was revealed that he basically blackmailed elementary schools into buying stacks and stacks of his kids' books in exchange for a school visit and an appearance on KNBC's "Today in L.A." show. The married Nance (whose wife has her own legal problems, but that's another story) was also accused of harrassing and carrying on with a number of interns.
Yet there was Christopher Nance at the Los Angeles Times Book Fair a few weekends ago, posing for pictures and signing his kids books! No shame.
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