Famous Newspeople Who Are Really Bad at Their Jobs

[HanSenSE]

Where does Geraldo Rivera fit in this conversation?

Mitch Albom is really good at promoting Mitch Albom. But anybody but Mitch Albom would have been fired on the spot for making up quotes.

AP category: Doug Ferguson. (Not bad, but getting a Tiger mention in stories that have nothing to do with Tiger is incredibly tiresome.)

I'm trying to find an example of a nationally-known radio "newsperson" -- Limbaugh doesn't count -- who was bad. If you made it to CBS, Mutual or ABC in their heydays, you were pretty damn good.

Geraldo's mostly been about Geraldo. Everyone remembers Al Capone's vault, but recall he also got booted out of Iraq during the second Gulf War for diagramming US troop movements in the sand.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I do think that many television sideline reporter is bad at their job. They frequently ask rambling, incoherent questions and rarely can ask a decent follow-up. I think this is due to the fact that they are gifted on-air presenters hired to ask questions. The skills to be a good presentor are different than the skills to be a good interviewer.

A side note to this: Erin Andrews has never gotten the credit she deserves for being really good at this. She asks good, short questions. Give her 30 seconds for an interview and she'll get in two good questions.

Give Doris Burke 30 seconds for an interview and her first question will be 25 seconds long.

Kristen Ledlow can ask "What do you need to do to hold this lead?" and she will look and sound like she's doing a soliloquy from Hamlet. Drives me nuts.

 

[Songbird]

Don't blame HST because others tried to ape his style.

 

[Azrael]

Don't blame HST because others tried to ape his style.

including HST

 

[Regan MacNeil]

including HST

Is that your way of pointing out his descent into self-parody late in his career?

 

[Azrael]

Is that your way of pointing out his descent into self-parody late in his career?

it is!

 

[Alma]

A side note to this: Erin Andrews has never gotten the credit she deserves for being really good at this. She asks good, short questions. Give her 30 seconds for an interview and she'll get in two good questions.

Give Doris Burke 30 seconds for an interview and her first question will be 25 seconds long.

Kristen Ledlow can ask "What do you need to do to hold this lead?" and she will look and sound like she's doing a soliloquy from Hamlet. Drives me nuts.

Erin Andrews is among the best. Michelle Tafoya too.

 

[DanOregon]

This is like a parody of the modern conservative movement.

Laura Ingraham Drinks Steak, Lightbulbs, Plastic Straws to Own Libs

 

[Justin Rust]

They wouldn't get a sniff of the College Football Playoff just like any other FCS school. There are no FBS HBCUs.

Exactly. I would like to point out how a good amount of the SWAC schools shouldn't be D-1 ... the MEAC is ran a lot better than the SWAC I feel. You could almost have a few schools from the SWAC drop down, maybe a couple from the MEAC and then combine the conferences and I think it would be a very competitive conference then.

On that note, South Carolina State had a BIG upset of Wofford in week 1 of the season.

 

[Justin Rust]

Don't blame HST because others tried to ape his style.

When you have two movies made about you because of how much you drank and did drugs instead of actually writing, this makes you a pretty bad writer ... also known as the Ernest Hemingway of doing things lol

 

[Twirling Time]

They wouldn't get a sniff of the College Football Playoff just like any other FCS school. There are no FBS HBCUs.

FAMU tried to move to FBS a few years ago but that didn't work out.

 

[maumann]

FAMU tried to move to FBS a few years ago but that didn't work out.

Sorry to threadjack:

You could make a serious argument that Florida A&M was easily the best college football team in the state, pre-integration. They certainly would have beaten Florida State and Miami, and the Ray Graves-era Gator teams more often than not.

And Grambling might have been the best team in the country had they lined up against Michigan State, Notre Dame, Texas and the Big 8. Michigan State's mid-1960s dominance was directly tied to being able to recruit players like Bubba Smith and Gene Washington while southern schools were still fielding whites-only teams.