F-Bomb on Fox News
I lifted this from a daily industry news letter aimed at the Television News folks called Shoptalk.
F-bomb Dropped On Fox's Shepard Smith
Hurricane hostage uses obscene word in Katrina coverage
WorldNetDaily.com
During Fox News coverage of Hurricane Katrina this afternoon, a man being interviewed by Shepard Smith dropped the F-word bomb on the reporter.
Smith, who was reporting via telephone from the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, noted that people were still drinking and gambling at video-game machines as the hurricane was approaching.
When he asked one man what he was doing there at the hotel, the man responded, "None of your f---ing business."
Smith, who anchors cable TV's top-rated evening newscast, noted that was a good answer, having been broadcast on international television, and then added, "It's none of my business, which it really isn't."
An anchor in the studio apologized for the remark's broadcast.
As weather experts continued to give forecasts for potentially catastrophic damage, Smith stated, "There will be a lot of dead people in New Orleans if they're right."
"Live television is a harsh and unforgiving mistress."
- First uttered by Uplinktruck during a botched news cast in 1977 and repeated countless times since then.
Paltergo suggested that since I failed to go to Katrina, she is now coming to me. The latest and greatest map from the National Hurricane Center shows Katrina running over Louisville on its way Northeast.
How does that go? Something about "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned?" I'm in deep stuff...
Good night Mrs. Whack. Be sure and take your umbrella and rain coat tomorrow. You're gonna need 'em.
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F-bomb Dropped On Fox's Shepard Smith
Hurricane hostage uses obscene word in Katrina coverage
WorldNetDaily.com
During Fox News coverage of Hurricane Katrina this afternoon, a man being interviewed by Shepard Smith dropped the F-word bomb on the reporter.
Smith, who was reporting via telephone from the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, noted that people were still drinking and gambling at video-game machines as the hurricane was approaching.
When he asked one man what he was doing there at the hotel, the man responded, "None of your f---ing business."
Smith, who anchors cable TV's top-rated evening newscast, noted that was a good answer, having been broadcast on international television, and then added, "It's none of my business, which it really isn't."
An anchor in the studio apologized for the remark's broadcast.
As weather experts continued to give forecasts for potentially catastrophic damage, Smith stated, "There will be a lot of dead people in New Orleans if they're right."
"Live television is a harsh and unforgiving mistress."
- First uttered by Uplinktruck during a botched news cast in 1977 and repeated countless times since then.
Paltergo suggested that since I failed to go to Katrina, she is now coming to me. The latest and greatest map from the National Hurricane Center shows Katrina running over Louisville on its way Northeast.
How does that go? Something about "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned?" I'm in deep stuff...
Good night Mrs. Whack. Be sure and take your umbrella and rain coat tomorrow. You're gonna need 'em.
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