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Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

Andrew — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:31:43

This is all a fabrication. If for one minute this news channel didn't want this scene to happen, the producer would have cut to commercials. This is about getting viewer ratings through a bit of cheap scandal, even cheaper than a story on Paris Hilton. If she really believed in what she was saying she would have got up and left.

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

auburn — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:23:37

I salute and thank her although she did go a bit too far.

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

CMarshall — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:15:13

Great morals BUT her job is to PRESENT the news. If she wants to determine what goes into the broadcast she can give up the infront of camera glamour position and get behind the scenes.

PATHETIC!! and dumb - she ended up given more coverage to PH than if she had just read it through and made no comment. So pathetic and dumb - ideal attributes for a presenter I assume.

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

dook — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:19:57

Funny how they insist on her doing the Paris Hilton story, and then as soon as it's about to end when she's talking about Congress challenging the integrity of Bush, one of the guys says "Now this is news".

In this type of world where heads must roll for shit like this, I will be upset if she loses her job over this.

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

clicknathan — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:37:05

A bit unprofessional, much too drawn out, but you have to love how she just breaks in to the next story like nothing ever happened.

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

Devin — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:23:34

Yeah, who knows. Either way, it seems a tad unprofessional... just skip it and let it be? She almost acknowledged the story even more by making it a big deal... ;)

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

ErinR — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:03:43

I think she was genuinely upset and didn't want to cover the story. I also think the producers decided to milk this for all it was worth and encouraged her co-newsman to taunt her and up the drama. Pathetic.

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

estarla — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:14:19

You speak the truth, Devin. I guess one thing that tempered that is that she looked somewhat genuinely distraught. But yeah...now that you point it out...

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

Devin — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:11:52

Or it's just a stunt to get reactions like this? It didn't have to go on for so long and be so over dramatic. ;)

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

RightOn — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:42:07

Awesome.

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

LorriM — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:33:52

Bravo to her!

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

estarla — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:39:50

**Applause**

It's journalism taking its profession back. :)

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

peroty — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:26:03

Correct Mike. ;-)

The idea was "I am annoyed" but take it how you will.

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

cooper — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:09:46

Good for her.

I do not watch most of the pundit based shows so I didn't see this, but we need a lot more of these kind of decisions being made by media pundits. We also need a country full of people who are not so pathetically desperate to avoid the truth of real news that they are willing to feed the celebrity off someone whose only claim to fame is that she had sex with her boyfriend on a video tape.

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

Mike — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:58:10

In the second photo she's defecating under the desk, off-camera. Right?

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

hthth — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:56:20

I get the first one .... not sure what you're reading from the second expression?

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

Kamigoroshi — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:55:40

Now if only someone can do that to stories of the iPhone.

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

peroty — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:52:15

I think these says it all...

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

Tyme — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:41:30

I loved it. They kept giving her the copy when she said she wasn't going to do it. I wish more people were like her.

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

peroty — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:38:39

Bravo! *applauds*

Reporter Refuses to Lead With Hilton Story

hthth — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:36:34

While I find her a bit excessive (trying to light the script on fire), I still think we need more of reporters with this kind of integrity and ideals.