Friday, August 9, 2013

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner impacts Emmy Awards night 2014 planning meeting



Mayor Filner and his inappropriate sexual harassment behavior towards women impacts Emmy Awards 2014 planning meeting

I am on the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences – Pacific Southwest Chapter.  The committee was meeting last night to go over the issues from this year and start planning for next year’s Emmy Awards and our chapters 40th anniversary.




The topic came up about possibly adding new awards categories for next year. Then someone says “next year all the stories maybe about Mayor Bob Filner and his antics” and everyone laughed. The consensus was not to add a special category for Emmy Awards for scandal news stories about Bob Filner even though there will be a great many. This is a sad but true story…