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		Five newscasters whose on-air humiliations make Diane Sawyer's election night drunken mess look like an Oscar-worthy performance (salon.com)		102
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StreetlightInTheGhetto		2012-11-11 07:52:02 PM

Yeah. I read that on my phone and was really glad the video wasn't working. Would prefer not to rewatch woman-obviously-having-a-involving-the-brain-medical-emergency-being-m ocked-as-drunk again.

Didn't realize it wasn't a stroke, though. Guess I learned something. Like how putting her in a list of "5 newscasters who humiliated themselves on-air" is still really f--king cruel.

GAT_00		2012-11-11 09:14:06 PM

Please tell me the video of the woman who had stroke isn't in here.

Yep, there it is. F*ck you Salon.

ilikeracecars		2012-11-11 09:20:15 PM

Off topic, but salon's site has the smallest column width on any site I've ever been to. Its only about a quarter of the page.

crabsno termites		2012-11-11 09:20:45 PM

New Ulm; East chain; Blue Earth; Sleepy Eye.

Used to be a hot waitress at the Holiday Inn in Fairmont.

Gyrfalcon		2012-11-11 09:20:50 PM

GAT_00: Please tell me the video of the woman who had stroke isn't in here.

Yep, there it is. F*ck you Salon.

Yeah, that one wasn't quite so funny.

KaiC		2012-11-11 09:26:06 PM

Guess I'm just old, I find these too sad to watch. The one with the woman who had a stroke (or migraine, whatever the doc wanted to call it) was obviously in the wrong list, and the last broadcast of the woman who crashed and drowned? I guess there's too much creep-factor there for me.

Fark Rye For Many Whores		2012-11-11 09:26:45 PM

Who is this "Brian" guy anyway?

TripSixes		2012-11-11 09:27:39 PM

That gave me the hots for Stensraud.

JohnAnnArbor		2012-11-11 09:28:20 PM

Gyrfalcon: GAT_00: Please tell me the video of the woman who had stroke isn't in here.

Yep, there it is. F*ck you Salon.

Yeah, that one wasn't quite so funny.

Not defending Salon, but they say it wasn't a stroke, it was a form of migraine.

mat catastrophe		2012-11-11 09:31:59 PM

Shenanigans, Jessica Savitch was not driving, nor intoxicated, in the crash that killed her. The article doesn't state either, but heavily implies both.

JasonOfOrillia		2012-11-11 09:32:05 PM

Gyrfalcon: GAT_00: Please tell me the video of the woman who had stroke isn't in here.

Yep, there it is. F*ck you Salon.

Yeah, that one wasn't quite so funny.

They say it was due to complications from a specific type of migraine. If so it is similar to the ones my buddy gets. He can't find the words he needs and conversations become tricky. Always a fun time to engage him in conversation.

Hobodeluxe		2012-11-11 09:32:31 PM

WhyteRaven74		2012-11-11 09:34:30 PM

Boom goes the dynamite

SwiftFox		2012-11-11 09:35:45 PM

GAT_00: Please tell me the video of the woman who had stroke isn't in here.

Yep, there it is. F*ck you Salon.

It wasn't a stroke, duh

Quantum Apostrophe		2012-11-11 09:35:56 PM

Top this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck

MFAWG		2012-11-11 09:36:27 PM

KaiC: Guess I'm just old, I find these too sad to watch. The one with the woman who had a stroke (or migraine, whatever the doc wanted to call it) was obviously in the wrong list, and the last broadcast of the woman who crashed and drowned? I guess there's too much creep-factor there for me.

I actually watched that broadcast, and it was very bizarre.

Mayhem of the Black Underclass		2012-11-11 09:37:57 PM

GAT_00: Please tell me the video of the woman who had stroke isn't in here.

Yep, there it is. F*ck you Salon.

FTFA: Happily, it wasn't a stroke, but a special type of hereditary "complex migraine"-according to Branson's doctor. She was accepted back into the CBS fold, where she still works today.

and the followup Video

KaiC		2012-11-11 09:40:56 PM

Ok Wiki'd Jessica Savitch and it's correct that she was not drunk or on drugs (or even caused the crash). Still find watching her last broadcast a little creepy and even sadder that THAT would be the last thing her viewers would see of her.

davidphogan		2012-11-11 09:42:04 PM

What about the woman who killed herself on-air? I mean, that's a career ending move.

maddermaxx		2012-11-11 09:42:20 PM

GAT_00: Please tell me the video of the woman who had stroke isn't in here.

Yep, there it is. F*ck you Salon.

Apparently it wasn't a stroke, it was just the side effects of a Migraine. So, while it's still not fun laughing at someone for having a medical condition, at least it wasn't deadly or permanent, just scary for her.

WyDave		2012-11-11 09:42:51 PM

ilikeracecars: Off topic, but salon's site has the smallest column width on any site I've ever been to. Its only about a quarter of the page.

Salon just doesn't work right on my iPhone. I don't care enough to load their app; but I wonder if they even care that their site is awful.

thecpt		2012-11-11 09:43:34 PM

that website is farking awful

lostcat		2012-11-11 09:45:37 PM

I can't bring myself to watch these. The same way I can't bring myself to watch Curb Your Enthusiasm.

KaiC		2012-11-11 09:45:52 PM

MFAWG: KaiC: Guess I'm just old, I find these too sad to watch. The one with the woman who had a stroke (or migraine, whatever the doc wanted to call it) was obviously in the wrong list, and the last broadcast of the woman who crashed and drowned? I guess there's too much creep-factor there for me.

I actually watched that broadcast, and it was very bizarre.

Must have been. I don't know if I would have been paying much attention to a newscaster at that time, I think I would have been 9? (and here is where I prove I am too old to find the humor in this list.)

Forbidden Doughnut		2012-11-11 09:46:25 PM

Quantum Apostrophe: Top this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck

Wow.

That's a really bad way to go.

Tenatra		2012-11-11 09:46:44 PM

"With his dance moves and use of "woooh" as punctuation, many have found it hard to believe he could have this much fun without a little help."

Looks like these people never had a fun meteorologist. Here in KC we had Don Harman, too bad he had to go and kill himself last year.

maddermaxx		2012-11-11 09:47:22 PM

Plus, those 5 and they didn't put on the "keep farking that chicken" guy?

KaiC		2012-11-11 09:47:37 PM

The next question is: when did Salon become The Suck?

/remembers when it was awesome
//proving a third time how old she is... *sigh*

KangTheMad		2012-11-11 09:48:47 PM

KaiC: Ok Wiki'd Jessica Savitch and it's correct that she was not drunk or on drugs (or even caused the crash). Still find watching her last broadcast a little creepy and even sadder that THAT would be the last thing her viewers would see of her.

What was so wrong about it? I didn't have any issues understanding her.

FormlessOne		2012-11-11 09:49:36 PM

I feel soiled for having read that.

"Hey, after we're done slandering Diane Sawyer, let's see if we can sound even worse by slandering others."

Fark you, Salon. Seriously, fark you.

ghost_who_walks		2012-11-11 09:51:22 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK2YVTl8Jko (sorry no linky, on mobile device)

Australian TV host Karl Stephanovic gave a stellar drunk performance hosting the the breakfast show the day after the Logies (Australia's Emmies). There's vids of him apologising for it the next day, and of the somewhat opportunistic report on a competing station's news that night.

I think its also not the only time for this guy. As to why he's still on the air? I don't know, but it may have something to do with the fact that his competition includes an idiot who didn't know what a placebo was (Koshie - he wanted to know why the weren't used all the time if they were as effective as some other quack treatments...)

Jim_Tressel's_O-Face		2012-11-11 09:51:36 PM

C'mon, I can't be the first.

assjuice		2012-11-11 09:52:57 PM

It was a very dares daresen. But but but but bbbut but, behead the pit, behead the pit.

mc_madness		2012-11-11 09:53:04 PM

These are comedy gold... ahahaha

The stroke one had be ROFLMAO... ;)

Bravo, Salon. Bravo!

KaiC		2012-11-11 09:54:05 PM

KangTheMad: KaiC: Ok Wiki'd Jessica Savitch and it's correct that she was not drunk or on drugs (or even caused the crash). Still find watching her last broadcast a little creepy and even sadder that THAT would be the last thing her viewers would see of her.

What was so wrong about it? I didn't have any issues understanding her.

I haven't watched it, like I said earlier, I find this kind of topic sad more than funny, but MFAWG described it as bizarre.

maddermaxx		2012-11-11 09:54:07 PM

Jim_Tressel's_O-Face: [static1.businessinsider.com image 366x275]

C'mon, I can't be the first.

That's right, you can't be the first.

maddermaxx: Plus, those 5 and they didn't put on the "keep farking that chicken" guy?

BigNumber12		2012-11-11 09:54:52 PM

KaiC: Ok Wiki'd Jessica Savitch and it's correct that she was not drunk or on drugs (or even caused the crash). Still find watching her last broadcast a little creepy and even sadder that THAT would be the last thing her viewers would see of her.

This. Back when it was thought to have been a stroke, and even now, when they're saying that it wasn't, that clip is seriously disturbing. The panic in her eyes is not funny.

Quantum Apostrophe		2012-11-11 09:55:05 PM

Jim_Tressel's_O-Face: [static1.businessinsider.com image 366x275]

C'mon, I can't be the first.

What's going on here? Is the dude on the right's wiener reaching all the way over to her under the desk??

gibbon1		2012-11-11 09:55:46 PM

mat catastrophe: Shenanigans, Jessica Savitch was not driving, nor intoxicated, in the crash that killed her. The article doesn't state either, but heavily implies both.

GAT_00: Please tell me the video of the woman who had stroke isn't in here.

Yep, there it is. F*ck you Salon.

Yeash.... I have to say may be a lot of things, but at least I'm not Bryan Le.

Spiralmonkey		2012-11-11 09:56:28 PM

I watched Diane Sawyer and didn't think she was anything other than tired. Whole article sucks. There used to be a much loved British newsreader called Reginald Bosanquet who was regularly snootered on air. When he died his co-anchor Anna Ford gave a great description of him :

"Reggie was a dear. I mean, you wouldn't have chosen a man who had epilepsy, was an alcoholic, had had a stroke and wore a toupée to read the news, but the combination was absolute magic.".

Everybody liked Reggie.

Proteios1		2012-11-11 09:56:31 PM

Probably just giddy. She's a democrat pretending to be an unbiased journalist. Stephanopolis was Clinton's spokesperson. Now pretending to be unbiased. It's silly to think the left hasn't infiltrated the media. Except they are more insidious than Fox News. Fox News says, hey were politically right and biased. Hey-o!

DrainBead		2012-11-11 09:59:07 PM

My favorite news embarrassment of all time.

/I used to work with the defense attorney who got kicked in that video.
//I'm also a Bills fan.
///CSB, I know.

tintinibar		2012-11-11 10:05:57 PM

Migraine Woman explains it all

Kejlina		2012-11-11 10:10:22 PM

If you go to the weird part of youtube, there's plenty of footage of newscasters puking and shiatting themselves on air.

I guess what I'm saying is: Don't visit the weird part of youtube.

gameshowutopia		2012-11-11 10:12:10 PM

Kent Shocknek, who has been saddled with the nickname "Aftershocknek" for 25 years because of this incident.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom		2012-11-11 10:15:09 PM

Kejlina: If you go to the weird part of youtube, there's plenty of footage of newscasters puking and shiatting themselves on air.

I guess what I'm saying is: Don't visit the weird part of youtube.

Hoe would one... arrive at this particular area of YouTube... hypothetically speaking, mind you...

Wayne 985		2012-11-11 10:15:53 PM

maddermaxx: Plus, those 5 and they didn't put on the "keep farking that chicken" guy?

"Humiliation"? No. That remains awesome.

Quantum Apostrophe: Top this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck

She and R. Budd Dwyer. Not sure what inspires that, but it's a hell of an exit.

Vexed Thespian		2012-11-11 10:16:02 PM

mediablitz		2012-11-11 10:16:50 PM

Gyrfalcon: GAT_00: Please tell me the video of the woman who had stroke isn't in here.

Yep, there it is. F*ck you Salon.

Yeah, that one wasn't quite so funny.

Wasn't a stroke. The article covers that.

brandent		2012-11-11 10:18:16 PM

Forbidden Doughnut: Quantum Apostrophe: Top this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck

Wow.

That's a really bad way to go.

Holy Crap!

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