December 5, 2025 • 6 mins
Steve in Manhattan called Ken to mention how people sometimes don't want to use a suspect's real name when they commit a crime. Rob in Franklin Square, NY, disagrees with Ken's thoughts on how a perpetrator gets displayed on media channels.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten.
Wo on Ken Fromart Today. Here's Ken Rosatto and we
go straight through our busy phone Steve in Manhattan. You're
alive on the air Friday morning.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Good morning to you, right, Ken, and it's great to
have you when you're filling them from off, it's really good.
The thing is about Luigi Mangioni. I noticed they love
using his name, but people just don't want to use
the names. Like the guy who shot the two godsmen
last week and murdered one of them, Lockingwall is his name.
(00:33):
They never hear them use his name. His name is
out of the cycle. There's also a lunatic back in June,
people forgetting both of Colorado. He fired bombed a bunch
of old ladies that was mohammed Soilman and even murdering
one of the old ladies with a firebomb. You never
hear his name repeated out. It just seems to be
a frenzy with this guy Luigi's name going on. And
(00:54):
even with the guys who shot shot at Trump, Matthew Crooks,
they don't say his name really. Even at the Bomba
they called him the Bomba or you know, the alleged
bomber and stuff. They won't use his name. I find
that to be not weird, but I find it to
be something in society that I know a lot of
Tinian Americans an anti Italian American thing where they get
(01:16):
into a frenzy. You say this guy's name, but the
guy who shot the godsmen don't even know the guy's name.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well, remember remember this if I got I got a pause,
you only because we're only have about thirty seconds left
to break it to the bottom of the hour here.
But just to let you know, part of it is,
I think is the fact that it's Luigi Manngoni and
he looks like the character from Luigi Brothers and whatnot.
And I think they've made fun of that. Uh, not
that you're we're talking about a guy who's attempted or
(01:43):
i'm sorry, an alleged murderer here, but you know, just
just that's part of it. I think you're not wrong.
I get it. It's like if if somebody is in
a large group of people, they're easier to poke fun at.
And so we've we've had a lot of people poke
fun at Italian Americans, and yet Italian Americans don't push
back as much.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I see what you're saying, and you're not wrong there.
But I will say I have been mentioning those other
names myself. It all depends on the individual. I think
it's easier to say Luigi Manngoni than it is to
say some of the other names. For a lot of
the announcers, it's lazy, but I think that may be
the simple answer as to why the other names don't
get mentioned as much. We go over to Frank in Manhattan,
(02:22):
good morning.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, good morning. I'm with it into borrough h for
a outreach organization of profit, and we did a survey
of Bronx Manhattan and Brooklyn of an average of eight
hundred plus people who appear homeless, and we did it
on tape and we did it written down, and out
of it we realized one critical thing that at least
(02:47):
ten to fifteen percent of them are homeless for two reasons.
First of all, they have very very low incomes. They're
not employable because of age of disability and some events,
and the number of apartments available. If you have an apartment,
good luck if you tell but your characterization that it's
a very real thing that people are homeless for lack
of money or whatever on the parents' side or whatever's
(03:09):
that's very inaccurate. And there's no coach drives, by the way,
for the homeless. They stopped that this year.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I don't know, but frank here, with all due respect,
I could cite about six different surveys that show just
the opposite. And we've done this. I worked at Channel
seven twenty years. We used to have these studies year
after year after year, you know, and for with all
due respect, I mean, anyone could call and say, we
did a survey, we have it on tape. Well, let's
see the tape. You know, when you see people wallowing
(03:35):
in urine in the street, and by the way, you
could very well have sadly, a veteran who is also
you know, you could put the two together. You could
have a veteran who is a drug addict who is
on the street. So just because I'm saying they are
a drug addict, they could be a veteran who is
a drug addict. And that is a shame that a
society we have let this happen. But to say that
we have just the average mom, dad's son, you know what,
(03:57):
I've lived in and around Manhattan and fifty eight years old.
I don't see that the nice, neat little family on
the street that you're trying to talk about and trying
to paint the picture of sorry just doesn't exist, or
at least not in the numbers you're talking about. Robin
Franklin Square, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I'm sorry. You know, I'm a retired try police officer
and trains a police officer. I just I kind of
disagree with you a little bit. Invariably, when the perpetrator
commits a crime, if the perpetrate, they'll put a description
(04:33):
over the air, like say five eighty pounds and local
news channel seven to and four, sometimes the network a
lot of times in the paper like news data. I
get if they don't put the if you put just
put up a descriptions like that, that's three hundred and
fifty million people. Now, you said, if you say if
the person is black, you're categorizing them as it like
(04:56):
one in a million people. But a description like that
is kind of useless.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Right, Well, I got to Rob, I gotta cut you
because it's ten thirty three it's time for news. But
I'm just to clarify, I'm not saying you're wrong there.
What I'm saying is if you only have a description,
and years ago, I remember when I started in TV
news in the market, if sometimes you would have we're
looking for twenty four year old African American men. That
(05:21):
is not fair because there could be one hundred twenty
four year old African American men and every one of
them is going to get stopped. But if you say
you have a twenty four year old African American man
with a scar underneath his left eye, he has hazel eyes,
and he has dreads and he's about five ft ten
and wearing brown pants, that is a description to look for, okay,
(05:41):
And that's that's where you're talking about, you know, clarification.
I'm not trying to go down that path. All I'm
saying is it was unusual to me that CNN simply
had the description that was red was a white guy
who's thirty, you know. But we already had his picture
on and he wasn't a white guy and didn't even
look thirty, by the way, But we're showing his picture
(06:04):
and saying the wrong thing. Clearly, somebody got it wrong
at CNN, And I'm just saying I didn't get an
apology or didn't hear an apology from them, and I
think they should clarify seven ten wor at the time
now is ten thirty three, and coming up next, we're
going to speak with Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett.
This is the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten.
Wo on Ken Fromart Today. Here's Ken Rosatto and we
go straight through our busy phone Steve in Manhattan. You're
alive on the air Friday morning.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Good morning to you, right, Ken, and it's great to
have you when you're filling them from off, it's really good.
The thing is about Luigi Mangioni. I noticed they love
using his name, but people just don't want to use
the names. Like the guy who shot the two godsmen
last week and murdered one of them, Lockingwall is his name.
(00:33):
They never hear them use his name. His name is
out of the cycle. There's also a lunatic back in June,
people forgetting both of Colorado. He fired bombed a bunch
of old ladies that was mohammed Soilman and even murdering
one of the old ladies with a firebomb. You never
hear his name repeated out. It just seems to be
a frenzy with this guy Luigi's name going on. And
(00:54):
even with the guys who shot shot at Trump, Matthew Crooks,
they don't say his name really. Even at the Bomba
they called him the Bomba or you know, the alleged
bomber and stuff. They won't use his name. I find
that to be not weird, but I find it to
be something in society that I know a lot of
Tinian Americans an anti Italian American thing where they get
(01:16):
into a frenzy. You say this guy's name, but the
guy who shot the godsmen don't even know the guy's name.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well, remember remember this if I got I got a pause,
you only because we're only have about thirty seconds left
to break it to the bottom of the hour here.
But just to let you know, part of it is,
I think is the fact that it's Luigi Manngoni and
he looks like the character from Luigi Brothers and whatnot.
And I think they've made fun of that. Uh, not
that you're we're talking about a guy who's attempted or
(01:43):
i'm sorry, an alleged murderer here, but you know, just
just that's part of it. I think you're not wrong.
I get it. It's like if if somebody is in
a large group of people, they're easier to poke fun at.
And so we've we've had a lot of people poke
fun at Italian Americans, and yet Italian Americans don't push
back as much.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I see what you're saying, and you're not wrong there.
But I will say I have been mentioning those other
names myself. It all depends on the individual. I think
it's easier to say Luigi Manngoni than it is to
say some of the other names. For a lot of
the announcers, it's lazy, but I think that may be
the simple answer as to why the other names don't
get mentioned as much. We go over to Frank in Manhattan,
(02:22):
good morning.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, good morning. I'm with it into borrough h for
a outreach organization of profit, and we did a survey
of Bronx Manhattan and Brooklyn of an average of eight
hundred plus people who appear homeless, and we did it
on tape and we did it written down, and out
of it we realized one critical thing that at least
(02:47):
ten to fifteen percent of them are homeless for two reasons.
First of all, they have very very low incomes. They're
not employable because of age of disability and some events,
and the number of apartments available. If you have an apartment,
good luck if you tell but your characterization that it's
a very real thing that people are homeless for lack
of money or whatever on the parents' side or whatever's
(03:09):
that's very inaccurate. And there's no coach drives, by the way,
for the homeless. They stopped that this year.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I don't know, but frank here, with all due respect,
I could cite about six different surveys that show just
the opposite. And we've done this. I worked at Channel
seven twenty years. We used to have these studies year
after year after year, you know, and for with all
due respect, I mean, anyone could call and say, we
did a survey, we have it on tape. Well, let's
see the tape. You know, when you see people wallowing
(03:35):
in urine in the street, and by the way, you
could very well have sadly, a veteran who is also
you know, you could put the two together. You could
have a veteran who is a drug addict who is
on the street. So just because I'm saying they are
a drug addict, they could be a veteran who is
a drug addict. And that is a shame that a
society we have let this happen. But to say that
we have just the average mom, dad's son, you know what,
(03:57):
I've lived in and around Manhattan and fifty eight years old.
I don't see that the nice, neat little family on
the street that you're trying to talk about and trying
to paint the picture of sorry just doesn't exist, or
at least not in the numbers you're talking about. Robin
Franklin Square, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I'm sorry. You know, I'm a retired try police officer
and trains a police officer. I just I kind of
disagree with you a little bit. Invariably, when the perpetrator
commits a crime, if the perpetrate, they'll put a description
(04:33):
over the air, like say five eighty pounds and local
news channel seven to and four, sometimes the network a
lot of times in the paper like news data. I
get if they don't put the if you put just
put up a descriptions like that, that's three hundred and
fifty million people. Now, you said, if you say if
the person is black, you're categorizing them as it like
(04:56):
one in a million people. But a description like that
is kind of useless.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Right, Well, I got to Rob, I gotta cut you
because it's ten thirty three it's time for news. But
I'm just to clarify, I'm not saying you're wrong there.
What I'm saying is if you only have a description,
and years ago, I remember when I started in TV
news in the market, if sometimes you would have we're
looking for twenty four year old African American men. That
(05:21):
is not fair because there could be one hundred twenty
four year old African American men and every one of
them is going to get stopped. But if you say
you have a twenty four year old African American man
with a scar underneath his left eye, he has hazel eyes,
and he has dreads and he's about five ft ten
and wearing brown pants, that is a description to look for, okay,
(05:41):
And that's that's where you're talking about, you know, clarification.
I'm not trying to go down that path. All I'm
saying is it was unusual to me that CNN simply
had the description that was red was a white guy
who's thirty, you know. But we already had his picture
on and he wasn't a white guy and didn't even
look thirty, by the way, But we're showing his picture
(06:04):
and saying the wrong thing. Clearly, somebody got it wrong
at CNN, And I'm just saying I didn't get an
apology or didn't hear an apology from them, and I
think they should clarify seven ten wor at the time
now is ten thirty three, and coming up next, we're
going to speak with Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett.
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