CNBC Watch
Posted by Jonathan on July 25th, 2003 (All posts by Jonathan)
The Iron Law:
Female correspondents will be competent in inverse relationship to how good-looking they are.
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Posted by Jonathan on July 25th, 2003 (All posts by Jonathan)
The Iron Law:
Female correspondents will be competent in inverse relationship to how good-looking they are.
July 25th, 2003 at 3:07 pm
Surely, you can’t mean Maria!
July 25th, 2003 at 3:25 pm
I don’t want to be mean here, but she is one of their more able people.
July 25th, 2003 at 3:27 pm
I thought Emma Crosby was pretty good, though she’s from CNBC UK.
July 25th, 2003 at 3:57 pm
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.
July 25th, 2003 at 10:50 pm
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.
July 27th, 2003 at 10:16 am
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
July 28th, 2003 at 4:11 am
God help us, is Helen Thomas working for CNBC now? Let it not be so.
July 28th, 2003 at 7:20 am
How about Bambi Fransisco? (I did not make this up)
July 28th, 2003 at 10:48 am
– 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.
July 28th, 2003 at 12:06 pm
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.
July 29th, 2003 at 4:21 am
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.