Post by Neko Bazu on Jul 1, 2007 19:49:55 GMT -1
Or so says US newsreader Mika Brzezinski, who flatly refused to read the story Friday morning, saying it wasn't news and especially shouldn't be a lead article. She went on to attempt to burn the script, and screwed it up and shredded it.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6252290.stm
I say good for her!
Journalists worldwide could take a hint from her - and her two colleagues are arses for trying to give the story any coverage at all!
See the footage here:
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6VdNcCcweL0
Give that woman an award for quality journalism!
(Edit: Over 1.4m views now!)
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6252290.stm
US newsreader Mika Brzezinski has attempted to burn her script live on television in protest at being made to lead her bulletin on Paris Hilton.
The co-presenter of MSNBC's Morning Joe programme refused to read out the story about the celebrity socialite's release from jail ahead of items on Iraq.
"I hate it and I don't think it should be our lead," she said, before tearing up and trying to set fire to script.
Hilton has described her time in jail as "traumatic".
Throughout the show Brzezinski refused to read the script and eventually screwed up and shredded it.
"I just don't believe in covering that story, at least not as the lead story on the newscast, when we have a day like today," she said.
Her co-presenters and producers continued to tease her by playing images of Hilton leaving jail, whilst she sat with her head in her hands.
The edited version of Brzezinski making her protest on the talk show has been viewed more than 250,000 times on the video website YouTube.
Speaking on CNN's Larry King Live show yesterday, Hilton, 26, said she wanted to help her fellow inmates, do more work for charities, and said that partying would no longer be the "mainstay" of her life.
The co-presenter of MSNBC's Morning Joe programme refused to read out the story about the celebrity socialite's release from jail ahead of items on Iraq.
"I hate it and I don't think it should be our lead," she said, before tearing up and trying to set fire to script.
Hilton has described her time in jail as "traumatic".
Throughout the show Brzezinski refused to read the script and eventually screwed up and shredded it.
"I just don't believe in covering that story, at least not as the lead story on the newscast, when we have a day like today," she said.
Her co-presenters and producers continued to tease her by playing images of Hilton leaving jail, whilst she sat with her head in her hands.
The edited version of Brzezinski making her protest on the talk show has been viewed more than 250,000 times on the video website YouTube.
Speaking on CNN's Larry King Live show yesterday, Hilton, 26, said she wanted to help her fellow inmates, do more work for charities, and said that partying would no longer be the "mainstay" of her life.
I say good for her!
Journalists worldwide could take a hint from her - and her two colleagues are arses for trying to give the story any coverage at all!See the footage here:
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6VdNcCcweL0
Give that woman an award for quality journalism!
(Edit: Over 1.4m views now!)
