Onion Rings

Former veteran CNN anchor Bobbie Battista on reinventing herself on ONN: I have just done some web videos for the Onion.com (a parody news site). They're pretty funny. I wasn't sure I should do them at first, but I think it's always important not to take yourself too terribly seriously!

Onion Bobbie bio: Battista left CNN in 2001, telling Anchor Monthly magazine that she could no longer tolerate the “utter lack of professionalism” at the network. Finding the Onion News Network more to her liking, she now anchors the evening news desk.

Bobbie website bio

A wag with the nom de guerre "Peter Jennings" writes on Bobbie's blog: "Sorry to see you on Onion News Network. Real News to fake news…wow. That must suck!" Peter

Yeah, it sucks dick big time. Bobbie: It is beyond the pale how the TV news biz eschews your vaunted "journalistic ethics" (now an oxymoron - like "Senate Ethics Committee" ) - not to mention your chronological age - since you bailed in 2001.

Bobbie fires back: "Oh 'Peter' Are you kidding? It’s a blast! Get a sense of humor!"

I'm far less concerned with brazen ballsy Bobbie bringing decades of journalistic credibility to fake news than fakes sans portfolio bringing no credibility to Bobbie's former employer and other cable news networks.

Why doesn't the snarky New York Times ("content-sharing" partner w/NBC/MSNBC/CNBC) that gleefully pointed out Bobbie's Onion gig peel the veneer from the phonies (Read Olbermann, Matthews, CNN's Rick Sanchez - the list is endless) masquerading as broadcast television journalists?

Bobbie: "I occasionally still do some TV work, most recently for Retirement Living TV, but I was too young for that network!! "

"Too young for that network!!"?? Bobbie's got to be in her fifties. Her age is a State Secret. She was a Raleigh, NC local news anchoress (photo) before CNN hired her in 1981. Same timeline as my career. And I just turned 60.

Kick ass and take names, Bobbie!

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