Comments on: Check, Please! Wins James Beard Media Award & Northern CA Emmy! http://blogs.kqed.org/checkplease/2007/05/16/check-please-wins-james-beard-media-award-northern-ca-emmy/ regular people review Bay Area restaurants Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:31:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dr. Leslie Sekerka http://blogs.kqed.org/checkplease/2007/05/16/check-please-wins-james-beard-media-award-northern-ca-emmy/comment-page-1/#comment-470 Dr. Leslie Sekerka Fri, 18 May 2007 03:25:19 +0000 http://mail1.kqed.org/wpmu/food/2007/05/16/check-please-wins-james-beard-media-award-northern-ca-emmy/#comment-470 Good day to you. I'm very sorry to say I was disappointed and saddened to turn OFF your show (one of my favorites!) this evening. In the future, please coach your guests or use editing techniques to cut the commentary that is vastly inappropriate for PBS. The objectification of men and women is not OK with this viewer. Your endorsement of such, by leaving in the guest's comment in tonight’s show about the "hot" mailman was just highly inappropriate and condescending. Thank you for helping your guests and the program stick to culinary enjoyment and fine dining rather than lust. You're setting an example for social norms with your (thus far) excellent television contributions. However, as a public broadcasting station I would hope that the producer (Tina) and host (Leslie), you would each own this responsibility and honor this public trust. Thank you. Be well, Leslie Sekerka Good day to you. I'm very sorry to say I was disappointed and saddened to turn OFF your show (one of my favorites!) this evening. In the future, please coach your guests or use editing techniques to cut the commentary that is vastly inappropriate for PBS. The objectification of men and women is not OK with this viewer. Your endorsement of such, by leaving in the guest's comment in tonight’s show about the "hot" mailman was just highly inappropriate and condescending. Thank you for helping your guests and the program stick to culinary enjoyment and fine dining rather than lust. You're setting an example for social norms with your (thus far) excellent television contributions. However, as a public broadcasting station I would hope that the producer (Tina) and host (Leslie), you would each own this responsibility and honor this public trust. Thank you.

Be well,
Leslie Sekerka

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