JOSH INNES YOU ARE NOT DIANA ROSS - LM

Diana Ross aka THE DIVA

Written by: LM

IS JOSH INNES A DIVA?

For three years I have witnessed people go after Josh Innes myself included.  Some, I thought were fair and many I thought were people wanting his attention.

Monday, Josh was joined by Fred Davis (Rich lord on vacation) and they were basically doing "Rock It Or Stop it" Radio.  You know, radio when fans call and tell a DJ if a new song is Hot or Not but they replaced it with Josh continuing his "on air" personality or changing it up in terms of style.

I got annoyed listening to the J&R  because it reminded me of the Diana Ross stories we use to hear about her past with the Supremes.  The stories of her wanting all of the attention, shine all of the time.

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Newsflash, if you tell Josh something you do not like about his style, he will  go "coward" and throw his coworkers under the bus.  I am surprised more people do not pick up on this.  Josh will ask people to critique him and the minute they do, he will reply by blasting his coworkers by saying "This person does the same".  That's the epitome of weak and the key part is, he's asking for the scrutiny.  A part of me wonder if this is his way of jabbing at his coworkesr.  It's similar to  my mother catching me sneaking in the house (after hours) and the minute she's about to go upside my head, I tell her "Tee (my sister) snuck out of the house too".  When I hear a grown man display this type of behavior, it really makes me think, in what world is this cool or acceptable?

This "WHOA IS ME" crap is old, stale and  we are starting to hear it a little more frequently.  Here's a tip, if people telling you they hate you is effecting you to the point where you have to make whole shows of it, then change what you are doing.   A person who don't give a damn about people liking them don't make a whole show of "why do people hate me" and then follow up but saying "it don't bother me".

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At this point of the game, Josh Innes is clubbing two birds with one stone.  For a guy who's in depth sports knowledge is weak, the opportunity to supplement sports knowledge with the focus being on him is gravy.  Josh wants the attention on him and only him, little things like sports is secondary, the show has to be about him in some way or another.

Josh is the only one in this market who has the ability to make a show about himself and it don't matter if it's good or bad, he just wants the attention.  His act is becoming like old Luv You Blue stories, we have heard all of the stories and it's tired.

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We have heard these stories a million times and they are no longer interesting.  Do I expect this to change?  No, he cannot talk sports without a headline story.  Peep game, on slow news days expect the infusion of "The Life of Josh".    Hell, I don't like all of the constant personal stories and using every chance to make the show about himself. With that said, when he goes "The Life of Josh" or "Whoa is me" I smooth change the dial.  There are too many options in J&R's time-slot to be hell captive to "Life of Josh".  And before he throw another coworker under the bus and say "they do it too", I don't hear anyone do it as much.

Bottom line Josh cannot talk sports therefore he will make the show about himself.

I was wondering, how cool would it be to see Diana Ross bring the Supremes back together but replace the other two members with Josh Innes and Sheila Jackson Lee.  Can you imagine the squabbles between the three for camera time?

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                                             LAMONT MANN (LM) AKA SNOW BLACK