A young kid Fox News grunt gets the heave-ho after telling John McCain "I voted for you. You're going to win." The Fox faux pas on smoking gun videotape. 24-year-old Jennifer Locke was on red carpet duty with a camera crew at TIME mag's Thursday night gala pimping "The 100 World's Most Influential" issue... Not "losing his bearings," a sharp McCain delivered the kiss of death: "You're not supposed to reveal that." Lemme get this straight... Cable Tee Vee talking heads such as MSNBC blowhard Chris Matthews can be unabashedly pro-Obama on the air and remain with impunity?
"This young woman, who dreamed of stardom at Fox News, was on her way to realizing her dreams, but was summarily dismissed for articulating the sort of opinion that likely got her hired in the first place." News Corpse
MSNBC's prissy Dan Abrams had a field day with the "Fair and Balanced Fox News." Watch the vid that did in the kid at Raw Story.
It's all about the "O". Public journalistic orgasms over politicians are verboten when there's a mic or camera around. Only in private, like TV icon Babs Walters...
5 comments:
Marty and Jim, is "Don't reveal who you vote for" standard and specific in news contracts these days? Even McCain knew about it. If so, FNC had no choice. Still, seems unfair considering the candidate adoration by on-air talent.
I've never heard of such a thing. Although I don't mention such things much, I've mentioned them on the air before and nobody said a word. There's nothing about it in my contract.
Dave: If that's true it's amazing that the language has to even be inserted into a contract. So obvious. Had Miz Locke not been caught on videotape perhaps she would've skated. if the crew ratred on her it would've been "he said she said." The kid should've known better but her enthusiasm got the best of her.
Jim: I've never heard of it, either. To me it would be an insult to even include that language in a contract. Perhaps Dave is thinking "don't reveal who you sleep with" until you write your autobio.
On the flip side, what about candidates TV blowhards detest? The opposition of adoration? Using the same standard, Chris Matthews et al. should be canned. And the on-air pimping of his Senate run with the "Morning Joe" talking heads calling him "Senator" on the air?
Don't get me started...
In this spirit, let it be known that I like them all but only a little bit.
Chris Matthews revealed on air that he voted for Bush in 2004. Were you arguing than for his dismissal?
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