Lives Of Local TV Reporters More Dramatic Than ‘Gossip Girl’

Do you think Dan Gross has a corkboard with all the “stars” of Philadelphia media’s faces on it? You know where I’m going here: He can now cross off another one, because Lori Delgado has quit NBC 10. Who’s Lori Delgado, you’re saying? She did mornings, sometimes filled in on 10!, got sued by Vince DeMentri, etc. Yes, it’s like Dan Gross is shooting them down one-by-one. Alycia? Ping. Larry? Sorry, buddy. Ping.

DeMentri, a former fake ATF agent, filed a precursor to a lawsuit recently against NBC 10, Delgado and “a male security guard identified only as ‘Don.’” Wow, you can just sue “some guy named Don,” huh? Man, if somebody ever tried to sue Fred from Comcast Sportsnet, heads would roll.

The Inquirer’s Michael Klein explains the backstory:

NBC had been investigating alleged incidents at the station. In one, Delgado’s personal property (a hair dryer, curling iron and handbag) was moved from her desk drawer to another spot under her desk. In another, a deep scratch was found on her Lexus, parked in the NBC10 lot in Bala Cynwyd. DeMentri, 44, had been questioned by NBC management. He was fired in August.

I’ve always thought WPVI’s policy of not letting its reporters talk to the media was stupid; it treated its employees like they were high schoolers. As we can tell from recent events over the past year, though, the local news business is pretty much just like high school. Maybe it’s a wise policy.

Lori Delgado resigns from NBC 10 [The Insider]
DeMentri sues NBC 10, Delgado, for libel and slander [Phillygossip]

NBC 10 Has Finger On Pulse Of Philadelphia

I don’t know about you, but I feel like invading Iraq, getting SARS and being in college! I guess I’m kinda just feeling like 2003 after reading this article about metrosexuality on NBC 190’s website. Yes, we now know how long it takes NBC 10 to catch up to a trend, and the answer is “four years.”

Lori Delgado’s report, hilariously headlined “Is ‘Metrosexual’ Taking ‘Macho Man’s’ Place?”, and I really thought it might have been accidentally printed again — like when the Weekly Press ran a Super Bowl preview from 2004 this year — but then somebody made a Geico caveman joke, and I don’t think those ads were on yet back in ‘03.

He loves Armani, and confesses a love for the Spice Girls. And like in the movie “The Forty-Year-Old Virgin” will even get his chest waxed. But he’s not gay. He’s the current metrosexual — not too clean, not too caveman-like, but certainly not too afraid to pamper himself.

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