Scam City with host Connor Woodman has returned for its 3rd season on the National Geographic channel. It is a worth watch particularly for travelers - Scam City photo

Video Beat EXTRA - SCAM CITY IS ON!!! - CNN TRASHY

James Loving - National Radio Text Service

Scam City is on revealing how tourist's scams operate in various countries and cities around the world. It's a worth watch and could save your life - Again... CNN proves to be the most trashy news channel on INTERNATIONAL airwaves - Recommended TV Listings

Monday, November 24, 2014

SCAM CITY IS ON!!!

Scam City is a show revealing how tourists can be scammed when traveling. It's a worth watch show since most tourist have had similar experiences. The value of the show is the host intentionally gets scammed and then makes friends with the scammer and has them explain how they do their scams.

For a viewer one can be wiser from watching the show particularly since Scam City travels to cities in countries around the world where each metropolis, for the most part, has its own unique scam. For a tourist heading in that direction the information could be valuable.

The most frequent scams are those perpetrated by taxi drivers. The usual scam is a driver taking you the long way around to increase the fare being the most common. In Mexico City a former policeman turned driver admitted that they often kidnapped customers for ransom. In some cases the victim could be killed if they don't pay.

In other instances drivers take a tourist to a nightclub where they are set up with an attractive female who picks him up at the bar offers to take the tourist to a back room to have an experience. Once in the back room a thug comes out and demands hundreds of dollars to be set free or else he informs the tourist that they may be murdered. The good news is they are kind enough to drive the victim to an ATM machine to withdraw the ransom money. The taxi driver is in on the ploy as he receives a commission for each tourist he brings to the club that is scammed.

Definitely this is a worth watch but be warned episodes shown thus far have been reruns. The show airs on the National Geographic channel. Check your local listings for the date and time in your area.

CNN & CHANNEL NEWS ASIA have made BAD CHANGES

Following our evaluation of Channel News Asia's Atoll Edwards as being the best sports talk host in the Southeast Asian region she, like Elvis, has left the building and has disappeared from the air. The reason why has not been disclosed. Her replacement has a mechanical delivery, is less talented and lacks the vibrant personality and fluidity that Edwards has or in this case had.

Also missing from the channel is Evon Young who was a host of a morning show for several years. The strange twist is both of these ladies are very attractive. It raises questions... is this about expired contracts or money? Young's replacement is also less talented as Young had an ease and communication skill about her that few talk show hosts possess.

The strange thing about the channel is it appears to be going through an identity crisis change in an effort to appear to an upscale audience. The boss of the channel is female who in recent years has undergone a massive makeover. That raises another question is this about business or simply female ego and jealousy?

CNN is another prime example of poor judgment in its sports news hosts. Lara Baldesarra is a loud mouth overly opinionated individual that thinks too highly of herself. When she hosts a show it comes off as if it's all about her and not about the sports news. She rants on with her opinions and claims that she is supported by a network (CNN) that values opinions. She is to sports news what Wolf Blitzer is to regular news, basically spewing opinions too much and news too little.

Another CNN mishap is Rachel Nichols who hosted Unguarded a somewhat sports magazine show in which she jumps on hot topics and controversy as well as interviewing guests. Her most recent rant was about NFL player Adrian Peterson who has appeared in court regarding disciplining his son by spanking him with a switch (small tree branch).

Her other hot button was former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice who was caught on camera assaulting his then girlfriend and now wife in an Atlantic City hotel casino elevator. She forgave Rice and married him but CNN and other trashy news media have raked this individual over the coals over and over again. Nichols is guilty of trash journalism as she has the talent to be much better than that. The interesting twist is this past week Nichols announced that the Unguarded show will no longer be on the air.

Given what Baldesarra said and the actions of other CNN staff the problem starts from the top of management. Given the trash journalism that is presented on the air, that is what CNN wants.

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