The Iron Law:
Female correspondents will be competent in inverse relationship to how good-looking they are.
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The Iron Law:
Female correspondents will be competent in inverse relationship to how good-looking they are.
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Surely, you can’t mean Maria!
I don’t want to be mean here, but she is one of their more able people.
I thought Emma Crosby was pretty good, though she’s from CNBC UK.
Actually, I thought so as well. Maybe I sounded sarcastic above. Either way, she’s the only one I’ve ever been able to sit through more than five minutes of — and not just because she’s good looking.
I don’t have a TV so I am really out of it.
Is Bobby Batista still around?
I saw Rudi Bakhtiar once. She looked like a fashion model, and she did not come off as much of an, uh, analyst of the news.
Umm, Helen Thomas?
There goes the Iron Law.
Unless we’re talking TV/cable correspondents.
Geez, I remember watching Katie Couric on the local Washington NBC affiliate. What a dope. Now she’s a “serious” journalist appearing on C-Span panels discussing world politics and international affairs.
Still a dope. She couldn’t cover, literally, a small town zoning or school board meeting. Wouldn’t know how to write the story, who to talk to.
SMG
God help us, is Helen Thomas working for CNBC now? Let it not be so.
How about Bambi Fransisco? (I did not make this up)
– Did Bambi Francisco every work at CNBC? I don’t think she does now. Besides, I can’t tell what she looks like: the photos I’ve seen of her are small and she uses a lot of makeup.
– Bobbi Batista certainly doesn’t work for CNBC.
– Rudi who?
– Are you guys serious about Emma Crosby? She looks good and everything, but she seems to have trouble finding Britain on those big maps they use.
– Katie Couric fits my model, but she doesn’t work for CNBC either.
– The German lady who does after-mkt reports from Frankfurt seems unusually competent, but unfortunately also fits the model.
Daryn Kagan.
I mention her because I have no idea how good, or bad, she is. If she happens to be on CNN, I sit staring at the TV, slack jawed, not noticing anything she says. Those eyes…. mmmm.
For all I know, she could be the second coming of Bob Woodward, or for that matter, David Corn. I haven’t a clue. All I know is she makes me make Homer-Simpson-Thinkin’-‘Bout-Donut noises. Argglelarglemmmmmmmmmmm….
Helen Thomas makes me make the same noise, only in reverse; as does excess tequila.
The CNBC Europe correspondents are not too bad. That would include the German lady; she’s on in the morning here. Not bad at all.