The Chicago-based formerly obscure CNN reporterbabe who ripped tea party protestors and Fox News new ones on LIVE TV was merely getting back at #1-rated Fox for not hiring her in 2005.Susan Roesgen just wasn't Fox's cup of tea...
So what does this tell you about the TV news biz and on-air types?
To quote Bob Dylan: "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
Marty
ReplyDeleteI covered her too...I also gave you a shout out in my week in review.
My Impression of the Mainstream Media's Coverage of Tax Day, Tea Partys held across the country this past week. Predictable, Preconditioned, Conforming & Devoid of Objectivity. They reminded me of Zombies.
http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/04/tgif-circus-life-art-ificial-life.html
It's not just the news biz and on-air types. That cherry was burst back in 2003 when I saw Control Room, the documentary about Al Jazeera and its coverage of the Iraq war. Whether you liked or disliked the movie, who wasn't surprised when a senior producer at Al-Jazeera, says that if he were offered a job tomorrow with Fox, he would take it? Well, maybe a grizzled news veteran wasn't shocked, but I was.
ReplyDeleteas I told my wife that bitch would have been fired the minute she came back to the station if she had worked for me back in the day. yea yea I know contracts notice blah blah. thats why we had lawyers.
ReplyDeleteHow could Fox resist hiring Susan Roesgen?
ReplyDeleteShe is the prototype Fox newsbabe, a hot 40 something blond with a gorgeous set of gams.
Kinky predicted this populist outrage a couple of months ago on Imus in the morning he said there was a populist awakening movement getting bigger in Texas.
ReplyDeleteKinky Friedman is running in the Democrat Primaries for Governor of Texas.
http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/04/kinky-freidman-saddles-up.html
Yet another example of the poor non ovjective reporting skills of today's "journalists". Of course when it is your hair style or figure that gets you promoted these days........
ReplyDeleteThanks, Laree! Anon: Same thing here. Bitch woulda been fired posthaste. In 1978 I was suspended from my TV news anchor gig for:
ReplyDeleteI was anchoring the noon and 6. On the noon we had a syndicated segment called "Merle The Butcher." That day Merle was stuffing a chicken.
I looked into the camera and teased the segment: "Merle's gonna show you how to stuff it. Right after this..."
I got a five-day suspension. Won in arbitration much later. The GM, a one Dick DeAngelis who later went to Phoenix, was apoplectic - his veins popping from his neck. I'd said other stuff on-air as well. Quaint, though, by today's standards.
I would've fit in great now. Born too early...
Dick DeAngelis... Bay City/Flint? Now I remember you, ChickieBoo. I wonder if his neck veins would have ruptured had he had to deal with Billy Bond's outbursts a few miles south of there.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Al. You got it! I was on the AM radio side of WXYZ before I came to WNEM in 1976. At WXYZ in 1971. TV news was right down the hall on the second floor. Before he got the Hair Club or whatever, Bonds wrapped his impossibly long strand of hair around his head in a new twist on combovers.
ReplyDeleteAl, I co-anchored the 6 with an eerie Ron Burgundy lookalike Art Van Dyke.
I had been reading your blog long before I ever commented to it, and always had this odd feeling that I knew you from somewhere but couldn't quite place it. Your bio didn't really ring any bells and then a few months ago with that little confusion between me and your daughter I started wondering maybe we were somehow related... Now I know.
ReplyDeleteHad to be a very long strand to wrap around Bond's fat head. After the comb-over days I believe he just pasted that Chia Pet stuff on his dome and watered.
Apparently I only noticed the spunky hot chick sitting next to the Ron Burgundy lookalike.