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CNN broadcasts anchor's bit of toilet talk

I think people find this story fascinating because what if you were in her position. Would you have said good or bad things about your husband or wife?

After this incident, the hubby probably has an ego now. :)
 
Thomas Veil said:
Hey...should the rest of us guys -- most of whom are apparently (vulgar term)s -- be pissed at her?
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The Atlanta-based Phillips, in conversation with an unidentified woman in an echoey room, dismissed most men with a vulgar term, but called herself “very lucky in that regard. My husband is handsome and he is genuinely a loving — you know, no ego — you know what I’m saying?
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No, but I pity her for being so shallow. She could just as well have said she's lucky he's got a big pile of money and a giant wang.
 
CorvusCamenarum said:
No, but I pity her for being so shallow. She could just as well have said she's lucky he's got a big pile of money and a giant wang.
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Er... what she actually said is completely the opposite of what you're saying. She said that she admired his "loving" and selfless (cf. "no ego") nature.

Yes, she also said he was handsome - but you can hardly criticise her for being positive about that now, can you?

Nowhere does she talk about his money or the size of his penis. In fact, being a CNN news anchor, I doubt she really needs a wealthy husband. I think that your completely unwarranted focus on money & penis size, probably says a hell of a lot more about your insecurities than hers.

So, in conclusion, I don't think it's fair to say she is shallow at all.
 
Atlasland said:
Er... what she actually said is completely the opposite of what you're saying. She said that she admired his "loving" and selfless (cf. "no ego") nature.

Yes, she also said he was handsome - but you can hardly criticise her for being positive about that now, can you?
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I can take note that that was the first thing out of her mouth. You don't make a case for something by listing what you think to be the weakest of your evidence first.

Atlasland said:
...I doubt she really needs a wealthy husband.
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Irrelevant. I forget where I found the study on it, but something on the order of 80-90% of women marry up, their own income notwithstanding.

Atlasland said:
I think that your completely unwarranted focus on money & penis size, probably says a hell of a lot more about your insecurities than hers.
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You missed my point.

What I derived from her remarks:
Dismissing most all men as <something vulgar>: she's the one with issues stemming from bad choices she's made.
Appearance comment first: shallow.
No ego: that doesn't compete with her obviously large one.

Parallel: shallow people are only concerned with certain things in a mate. The aforementioned items are two of the more prominent ones.

Conclusion: she could have replaced "handsome" and "no ego" with "dong" and "wallet" and my opinion of her would not change.
 
spicyapple said:
There's a switch on the personality's wireless transmitter that can mute the audio feed, should she require absolute privacy and something she can control. I don't think it should be the responsibility of the sound guy.
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As someone who has worked in TV news (including running the sound board), I can attest that it really is the sound guy's responsibility. Anchors often rush to the restroom between live shots, so it's not unusual for them to keep the mic on and to keep wearing it. In fact, many sound guys prefer that because if s/he removes it and/or turns it off, there's a good chance they will forget it when they go live again.

One thing that can happen: if the sound guy was monitoring another audio source, it overrides the live sound, so he might have not known. Still his fault, but I've seen it happen.
 
This is clearly the audio guy's fault. Kyra Phillips isn't scheduled to go on until 1:00 p.m. EDT, so why did they turn on her mic?
 
tipdrill407 said:
This is clearly the audio guy's fault. Kyra Phillips isn't scheduled to go on until 1:00 p.m. EDT, so why did they turn on her mic?
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It's possible that she was having a sound check and the mic was not muted properly.
 
spicyapple said:
There's a switch on the personality's wireless transmitter that can mute the audio feed, should she require absolute privacy and something she can control. I don't think it should be the responsibility of the sound guy.
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But it is the sound guy's responsibility! I've done quite a few live broadcasts and I've seen the director in the control room yelling at the sound guy when he was a little slow turning off the talent's mic. In that case, we only caught a word or two. I don't know how a conversation of this length made it on air. Unless the guys in audio had their headsets off, or the director wasn't listening to the broadcast, or both.
 
tk421 said:
But it is the sound guy's responsibility! I've done quite a few live broadcasts and I've seen the director in the control room yelling at the sound guy when he was a little slow turning off the talent's mic. In that case, we only caught a word or two. I don't know how a conversation of this length made it on air. Unless the guys in audio had their headsets off, or the director wasn't listening to the broadcast, or both.
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If the sound guy had another mic on solo so he could check something, he wouldn't hear the live mix. It happens. To me the really amazing part is not that the he/she didn't notice it immediately, it's that no one else in the control room did either for a long, long time. An eternity by broadcast standards, really.

All I can think is that something must have either broken or there were some other unusual circumstances that distracted them from hearing what was going out on the air. At any given time, there are quite a few people around the control room, so it's hard to believe that none of them noticed for so long.

Of course, there's always the conspiracy theory: that someone who doesn't like the reporter let it through intentionally to embarrass her. I doubt someone would do something so blatant that could get him/herself fired. There was a rumor going around at an L.A. station several years ago about a Hispanic anchorwoman who was way, way in over her head. The station obviously was looking for ratings in the local Latino population, but this choice turned out to be embarrassing. She regularly mispronounced even common English words. (If you watched KTLA in Socal at the time, you know who I'm referring to.) The rumor was that some of the producers were so annoyed that she was hired that they intentionally wrote words into her copy that they knew she'd say incorrectly. I digress, but some behind-the-scenes animosity can spill over onto the airwaves.
 
Well at least she provided something more interesting to hear than anything Bush may have to say.
 
She must have had an affair with the sound guy!!
Why , you ask?
Since when do you provide washroom acquaintances with an in-depth profile of your partner? What sparked her of to 'dismiss all men with a vulgar remark' in the first place and then praise her hubby? It all seems so elaborately worked out, her 'forgetting' to switch off her mike, the cue to sing praise of her husband, the voice cutting in to remind her of her mike still being open just at the right time (why didn't they just cut her mike..?).
Probably her husband was onto them so they chose to appease/distract him a little.
I bet she spends more time with her sound man than her husband anyway.

Oh yeah, by the way, there were never any REAL Apollo missions and Australia is a mere figment of everyone's imagination...
 
ecche said:
She must have had an affair with the sound guy!!
Why , you ask?
Since when do you provide washroom acquaintances with an in-depth profile of your partner? What sparked her of to 'dismiss all men with a vulgar remark' in the first place and then praise her hubby? It all seems so elaborately worked out, her 'forgetting' to switch off her mike, the cue to sing praise of her husband, the voice cutting in to remind her of her mike still being open just at the right time (why didn't they just cut her mike..?).
Probably her husband was onto them so they chose to appease/distract him a little.
I bet she spends more time with her sound man than her husband anyway.

Oh yeah, by the way, there were never any REAL Apollo missions and Australia is a mere figment of everyone's imagination...
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True, women trashing other women is so rare. :p
 
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