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Not only has local Fox affiliate KRXI-11 been shucking us, they've spread the sickness to KRNV-4.

The NBC affiliate has been re-running Fox-11 news feeds.

Since corporate octopus Sinclair bought Channel 4 last month, they've merged news departments.

Sinclair announced cancellation of Fox-11's popular 10 O'Clock News from KTVU-Oakland and may soon kill their local 11:00 p.m. newscast.

Which isn't really local.

The show originates from Iowa with Nevada inserts.

Is a sin of omission a backdoor lie?

Insiders are betting that Jon Ralston's 6:30 p.m. political program Ralston Reports will be the first TV-4 show axed.

Sam Shad's Nevada Newsmakers at 12:30 p.m. will probably stay because daytime isn't a priority and Shad pays for the slot.

UPDATE 18 JAN. 2014: UNINTENTIONAL TRUTH DEPT. —> On KRNV's 5:00 p.m. PST newscast of Friday, 17 Jan. 2014, reporter Van Tieu referred to her department as "Fox 11 News."

Oooops.

LIPSTICK ON A PIG. (With apologies to those noble, clean and intelligent creatures.)

In a shuck worthy of Fox News, Washoe school boss Pedro Martinez tried to put positive spin on Nevada's latest disastrous report card.

He accused Education Week of using old(?) data from 2012 ranking us 51st among the 50 states and DC. (Education Week was formerly known as The Chronicle of Higher Education and remains the most prestigious journal in the field.)

In 2011-12, Pedro's predecessor, Heath Morrison, and the school board won national acclaim for a shocking spike in the graduation rate.

Pedro, who left Reno-Sparks for Gomorrah South, did ditto down there.

  Pedro now contradicts all of the above.

  He's right for once.

  The books were cooked and only the Barbwire printed the awful truth.

Read it for yourself and make your own judgments—> We Don't Need No Education continuing series

ADIÓS. This Saturday, Nevada says goodbye to two great public servants.

  Educator and Assemblyman Bernie Anderson, D-Sparks, died on Jan. 10.

  He will be laid to rest with a 10:00 a.m. funeral mass at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 2900 N. McCarran in Sparks.

At 2:00 p.m., a memorial celebration for one of Bernie's longtime colleagues will take place at Washoe Democratic HQ, 1465 Terminal Way in Reno.

Registered nurse and Assemblymember Vivian Freeman, D-Reno, died on Dec. 5.

Requiescant in pace.

LONG TIME GONE: REMEMBERING MY DAUGHTERS—> January 16 marks the 55th birthday of Debra Donlevy (Carson High '77) and Donna Cline.

Both were severely injured in a rollover accident near Gabbs in 1978. Debbie, my late wife's daughter, died as a result of malpractice at Hawthorne's Mt. Grant Hospital.

Donna was left paraplegic and went on to become a major market news anchor, Miss Wheelchair Nevada and Miss Wheelchair America. She died in Texas in 1999.

The dangers of rural Nevada healthcare have not changed in 36 years.

Requiescant in pace.

NAGPAC RULES! This week, the U.S. Supreme Court left intact Nevada's "none of these candidates" ballot option. Ignore the inaccurate press reports about the law's history.

The 1975 measure sponsored by Assemblyman Don Mello, D-Sparks, resulted from Mello's personal dislike of Nevada Chief Justice Al Gunderson who was up for re-election in 1976.

Gunderson ran unopposed but still had to spend advertising money to avoid an embarrassingly high percentage for a ghost opponent. (In its first election, "None" scored 21.5 percent, far higher than in actually contested races between real people.)

Time for return of my 1982 None of the Above for Governor Political Action Committee aka NAGPAC?

Stay tuned.

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon my Spanglish.)

WEB EXTRAS...

RENDER UNTO CESAR: Northern Nevada César Chávez Celebration XII happens on the great labor leader's birthday, March 31, 2014.

Commit for tickets and tables now at CesarChavezNevada.com.

I'm planning a TV special about César Chávez's days in Nevada.

Stay tuned.

ANTE INTO THE GAME: Support the new season of Barbwire.TV by putting your money where my mouth is.

PayPal monthly subscription software is now operational at the website.

A thousand thanks to those who already responded.

Keep sending show suggestions.

Current frontrunners include (pardon the pun) wild mustangs as canned goods, education,  i-Guns and gay Olympics with César Chávez in Nevada recently surging.

  Please forward additional ideas or vote on the above.

  I encourage you to donate to the cause at Barbwire.TV/

The medium that shapes public opinion needs at least one refuge where it is not filtered through the distorted green eye shades of prissy corporate accountants for whom profit is the only priority; where self-censorship is the journalist's normal work environment and where all sins of omission are tacitly encouraged and forgiven with the wave of a balance sheet.

This is important.

We've got work to do.

HONOR YOUR DON. Keep sending comments supporting legendary Nevada photographer Don Dondero (1920-2003) for the Nevada Press Association Hall of Fame.

His life's work appeared worldwide, including the Tribune and most probably every newspaper in Nevada.

Enlist in the campaign to install Big Don.

Please send me your memories and endorsements via e-mail or to P.O. Box 10034, Reno NV 89510.

The Barbwire got the late Reno Gazette-Journal columnist Guy Richardson elected in 2012.

Let's double down.

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon my Spanglish.)

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Andrew Barbano is a 45-year Nevadan, chair of the Nevada César Chávez Committee, producer of Nevada's annual César Chávez Day celebration, first vice-president and political action chair of the Reno-Sparks NAACP, labor/consumer/civil rights advocate, member of Communications Workers of America Local 9413/AFL-CIO and editor of NevadaLabor.com and JoeNeal.org. As always, his opinions are strictly his own. Check local listings for other Nevada cable systems. E-mail barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Daily Sparks Tribune since 1988.

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Andrew Barbano is a 45-year Nevadan, editor of NevadaLabor.com and JoeNeal.org; and former chair of the City of Reno's Citizens Cable Compliance Committee, He is producer of Nevada's annual César Chávez Day celebration and serves as first vice-president, political action chair and webmaster of the Reno-Sparks NAACP. As always, his opinions are strictly his own. E-mail barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us.

Barbwire by Barbano moved to Nevada's Daily Sparks Tribune on Aug. 12, 1988, and has originated in them parts ever since.
Whom to blame: How a hall-of-famer's hunch birthed the Barbwire in August of 1987
Tempus fugit.

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