WNBC news anchor Sue Simmons lets her inner beyotch out, live.
You know, I am so glad this wasn’t me. I’m just sayin’….
[from NYTimes:]
Maybe that will teach Chuck to stop reading things on his computer monitor and start paying attention to Sue.
It looked like a spat between two people who have worked together for so long that they know each other’s rhythms a little too well. And, of course, they have worked together, for ages — or at least since 1980. There was Chuck Scarborough, reading something on a computer screen embedded in the desk and not listening to his co-anchor, Sue Simmons.
So she let him have it in what sounded like mock derision. But she used a word seldom heard on the noncable air, and then only by accident — a word that is not publishable in the newspaper.
The difference between them and, say, a couple having a spat over the dinner table was that they were on television — live television, on a network-owned station in the nation’s largest media market.
It happened during a promotional spot at about 10:30 p.m. on Monday night on WNBC-TV, when they were supposed to describe stories that would be on their newscast at 11. By Tuesday morning, the outburst had New Yorkers talking about the nature of cursing in everyday conversation — not to mention the nature of Ms. Simmons, almost as permanent a presence in local news as there can be — and about how some things seem to be appropriate nowadays, even on television — and some things are not.