Is it a prerequisite that you have to be stupid to be an anchor on CNN

[merbex]

Did you hear Kyra Phillips?

Why are they mad? What are they mad at specifically? Referring to a group of her FELLOW CITIZENS WHO HAVE FUCKING LOST EVERTHING

Wait till the transcript comes out

[aden_nak]

1. Yes.

[K-W]

2. Yes. Smart people can detect bullshit and thus cannot report it. EOM

[Mr_Spock]

3. Yeah, some of these people are entirely out of touch

They are saying some good things due to their naivity as well - I guess we'll have to take the good with the bad :(

[Blue_Roses]

4. I heard her

what a dumbass. :crazy:

[DrDan]

5. I was just thinking what a relief she was

but I guess compared to Daryn, anyone would be

[SOS]

21. Remember Daryn and Kyra

getting their lines directly from the White House (while on the air) during the Letterman/yawning kid fiasco? Their credibility ended that day.

[DrDan]

6. I was just thinking what a relief she was

but I guess compared to Daryn, anyone would be

[Jeanette in FL]

7. Then she asked

Why don't they just leave, start walking, like the people of 9/11 did. Is she really that stupid. I don't normally watch CNN

[jaxx]

13. Maybe she used to work for Fox News..........that's how she sounds to me.

On and On and On.........little content and alot of her.

[Armstead]

17. Not a bad question to ask...

I don;t want to defend airhead anchorism, but one of their jobs is to ask the questions viewers would be asking, and that's one of them.

[displacedtexan]

8. did you hear her ask why people didn't just start walking...

... out of town like they did on 9/11?

The other guy had to explain to her that 9/11 was contained, and people could get to safety without walking very far.

Kyra is an idiot!

[Mira]

9. I heard it, I now have one less television.........n/t

[Media_Lies_Daily]

10. She's not the sharpest pencil in the box, that's for sure.

[BlueJac]

11. Kyra is a fool, always has been.

The anchor fool phenomena

[charlie]

12. CNN bobblehead just asked the reporter

Why don't they walk out of there? She had to be told that the wasteland stretches for miles and miles, the nearest gas and groceries were 40-50 miles away.

[Lars39]

14. I started yelling when she said something about the crowd

just not used to being in front of a camera. :nuke:

[flamin lib]

15. If I didn't have to go through the trauma to be asked,

I'd dearly love the chance to respond to one of these questions. "What was your first thought as the airliner burst into flame?" (actual question from a reporter to a survivor). My answer, "First thought was how do I get my happy ass off this effin' airplane but tell me is Stupid Questions an entry level or advanced course where you learned journalism?"

[donsu]

16. I screamed at the TV 'they want water & food you dumb woman'

I had to mute and turn away aaarrrrggghhhh

[riverwalker]

18. she actually said:

"other than no food or water (for 4 days), what specifically are they mad at?"
Poor Kyra got a little reality check today. She was astonished: "but why is there no one in charge?" Kyra, that is exactly the point, do ya get it now? Maybe?

[flamin lib]

19. I also like Rupert Murdock's comment about his anchor people:

"Same pole, different girl . . ."

My wife commented on a conversation between CNN anchor and an independent journalist reporting from Iraq. I just said that one was a real journalist and the other was a lap dancer.

[lpbk2713]

20. Oh I don't know .....

might be because they are watching people die all around them. The sight of dead bodies can be a little unnerving.

might be because they haven't had food or drink for four days.

might be because they lost everything they own.

might be because it has become obvious to them that nobody gives a shit.

[tabasco]

22. No, but it helps come promotion time.

Kyra is pretty but would not be employed by any real news organization with standards. As soon as she stops reading and starts commenting, it becomes clear she is not that bright.

OTOH, at least she's not giving Pigboy rubdowns.

[JaneGat]

23. Yes, I heard that idiot. How can anyone be this stupid.

Kyra, the eye-rolling, mouth-pursing, better-not-say-anything-bad-about-her-man, Bush-bot is now wondering why the people are furious. What the hell did any of *them* think would happen as a result of drowning the federal government?

* and his phony party crowd DON'T CARE, AMERICA. They told us in Crawford that they don't care. So, Kyra, get over it, because there's gonna be a lot more where this came from.
:rant:

[Armstead]

24. As a longtime CNN basher, I think y'all are missing it

CNN is guilty of many sins -- But the current coverage of the aftermath is NOT one of them.

They are not going easy on anyone here. They've been expresssing the same frustrations most people feel watching this unfold. In fact they are being surprisingly blunt and not swallowing the spin.

As I noted in a post above, the job of a news anchor is partially to ask reporters the questions a viewer would ask. And those of us far removed from the scene do have a lot of stupid questions, like why don't people just walk away from the Dome?

Like I said, CNN (and the otrehr cable nets) often deserve bashing. But so far, they have been doing a good job on covering this debacle.