Why is Solidad O'Brien on CNN morning to night????

[MoonRiver]

Is she related somebody high up in the corporation? That woman is a third grader wannabe, seriously. I cannot believe that this little squeaky voiced, giggly, flipped hair dolt is being paraded around like a 'professional' journalist!!

Sorry for the rant, but her totally unmerited rise to media prominence simply astounds me.

:shrug:

[bigwillq]

1. I happen to love her

She so cute and bubbly. She surpassed Katie Couric as my favorite news journalists.

I'm ready for the onslaught!

[MoonRiver]

2. So it's a guy thing; I wouldn't understand.

Correct?? Cause from my, female, point of view, she's totally devoid of content.

[bigwillq]

11. A gay guy thing

I think she has some wits

[MoonRiver]

13. OK. Whatever. There's no accounting for taste, mine or yours.

:hi:

[bigwillq]

14. That's true

:hi: Right back at ya!

[nankerphelge]

3. She's the undead

She needs no sleep.

[MoonRiver]

6. That explains the devoid part. And I guess CNN wants zombies,

so, yeah, it adds up under that scenario.

[BootinUp]

4. I used to like Soledad

when she was on MSNBC. :(

She has gotten silly and flirty on CNN to the point of making me :puke:

[baldguy]

5. What Have you got against Soledad?

[MoonRiver]

7. She's a bimbo pretending to be a reporter!

I think Paula Zahn has a lot more credibility, at least in terms of her on camera persona.

[baldguy]

12. "Paula Zahn has a lot more credibility"?!?!?

You're kidding, right?

[MoonRiver]

16. Well, I'm simply talking persona. Neither of them have real credibility.

Zahn just looks, sounds, and acts like an adult. CNN has apparently groomed Soledad into a childlike reporter, for some unfathomable reason.

[caledesi]

9. I like Soledad. (she went to Harvard, hello?) nt

[MoonRiver]

10. And * went to Yale, snicker, snicker.

So what?

[alfredo]

28. That was the thing about her. She is nice looking but

she left no other impression. Maybe that is good. You think about what she is telling/selling, not about her.


Robin Meade- I can't get past watching her mouth. Her teeth never part. It is spooky. She's a nice looking person, and probably very smart and personable, but relax your jaw. Please.


A picture of her.

[alcuno]

8. I like Soledad. She's got miles on Bill Hemmer.

I see her in the morning and wonder how she resists reaching over and wringing his neck.

[Kahuna]

19. That's not exactly a ringing endorsement. Hemmer..

looks and acts like a 10 year old. :puke:

I agree with saywhat about Soledad.. :puke: She comes across as a shallow twit who is too cute by half..

[MoonRiver]

24. Is this childlike news reporter persona part of a media plot to further

dumb down Americans? These silly little newscasters could have been put in place deliberately to make us think its OK to be unquestioning and superficial, because our national figureheads, who we watch and listen to day in and day out, are. Really, this might be a factor in the corporate meida brainwashing of Americans.

[Kahuna]

30. All I know is that both she and Hemmer are juvenile and annoying..

:puke: :puke: :puke: I could care less about her cute chipmunk cheeks. }(

[MoonRiver]

32. The media constantly insults our intelligence,

sometimes to their peril. Whenever I see 'cute' or 'perky' and nothing else I flip stations to Democracy Now!, C-SPAN, or, more often, look for intelligent life on the Internet.

[LowerManhattanite]

20. Repug Paula needs her fortnightly day of rest...

The formerly "fair and balanced" Ms Zahn is off on yet another busman's holiday. When she was co-hosting American Morning she took so many days off (outside of her skiing accident) that it was brutally apparent that she just didn't want to be there. Soledad was just filling in as almost all of the CNN second-tier crew normally does when a big gun takes a day off.

As Soledad's pregnant with twins, I was struck by how she kept it together and how reporterly she was during the segment about the woman jailed for pooh-poohing the cesarian and causing the death of one of her own twins.

I'll take Soledad over the "I-wish-I-was-still-on-Fox" Ms. Zahn.

[alcuno]

23. Welcome to DU, LowerManhattanite.

I'm with you. Twins? I must not be listening in the morning.

[LowerManhattanite]

25. Thanks much...

...for the welcome alcuno! I'm a rookie here, but a long-time fighter on other fronts for the cause. Found this site/blog via the Roger Ailes blog and Democratic Veteran. Love the rapid-response here.

You guys rock like Zep in '69!

[MoonRiver]

26. Yes, welcome LowerManhattanite!

I usually post on GE2004, but this rant seemed more appropriate here.

[bluestateguy]

15. She's not as bad as some of the whores on FOX

Laurie Dhue? Puleeze.

[MoonRiver]

17. I never watch FAUX, so I wouldn't know. n/t

[Toby109]

21. This is how standards are lowered

Watch "Broadcast News" circa 1988. James L. Brooks saw this kind of shit coming.

[Maccagirl]

22. You mean Laurie "Lip Gloss" Dhue?

When I channel surf and catch 3 seconds of her I half-expect her to undue the top button of her blouse after that Marilyn Monroesque lip-pursing thing she does. It's so cute!

[peaches2003]

27. Laurie and Paige

She must have cornered the market on collagen. And that Paige Hopkins looks like the wicked witch of the east.

[Career Prole]

18. She's expecting twins, I've heard...

...so she has to be vapid for three.

[Skittles]

29. I think she sucks too

she's so perky I want to drive a nail through her forehead.

[MoonRiver]

31. 'Perky' is definitely the road to dumbing down our media, big time.

How pathetic that many think its a necessity for t.v. news reporters now.
:crazy:

[Paragon]

33. Nice one, saywhat

Certainly, a woman can't be attractive and intelligent and successful without being "related to somebody high up in the corporation". :eyes: She's been on TV for a dozen years now.

And feminism takes a BIG step backwards...

[K8-EEE]

34. I WAS JUST THINKING THIS TODAY, OMG WHEN SHE SAID...

she was talking about the US Constitution and she said something like "and of course the Constitution has been that way for many, MANY centuries...."

Many? Like...2 maybe?

Then she says to the guy who is trying to lobby on behalf of non-religions citizens, "WHY does this NEED a lobby?" You know like, all incredulous. Why does anything need a lobby, you freaking bimbo?

Oh and the Marlo Thomas hair? LOSE IT! She's on my last nerve.

[Mari333]

35. Demographically the majority of women in the US are over 40

and believe me, many of us are pretty much sick and tired of pimply teenagers as newscasters.
"Um...like..whatever..Mr Kerry is so..well..giggle..well whatever...he called Bush a liar and a crook and oh well whatever...giggle...like....ya know...?? I mean whoa...that was so like...weird and.....whatever...."
For christs f*cking sake....WHERES THE REAL HARD HITTING JOURNALISTS...
we are sick of the kids , Yalies and all...they look like kids who work at Burger King!!

wheres Walter Cronkite!!! we need him again.

[HydroAddict]

36. Okay, flame if you must...

But I gotta thing for Soledad too. I was first hooked back in the early 90's when she was ZDNet (now TechTV I think), doing a weekly show about future electronics, can't remember the name of the show, but I sure as hell remember her. I even taped a few episodes.

I remember talking to some friends back then, and we agreed that she was too good for that show. Sometimes, you could tell even she thought she was too good for it, especially when was forced to converse with this silly animated computer character.

Anybody else know that show? It's driving me crazy that I can't remember the name.

[argonne]

38. Ahhh! Soledad!

from Salon 1997--

MSNBC--The Site

In my own defense, I'd like to point out I'm not the only one. True, Soledad hasn't inspired the obsessive fervor that surrounds such Net favorites as Gillian Anderson or Sandra Bullock — at least not yet. There's no newsgroup devoted to singing her praises; there are only two Web pages paying homage to her; and no one, as far as I can tell, is writing fan fiction detailing her imaginary adventures. But her fans, though perhaps small in number, are pretty fervent. She's gotten, for better or worse, the attention of a certain number of frustrated teenage boys — so many of them, she says, were "posting perverted things about me" on her message boards on The Site that she shut them down for a time. (They're back up now, with better filtering software.)

But she's also turned the heads of a number of perfectly sensible adults of both sexes. On the online conferences of The Well, they've been particularly effusive in their praise. "I think Soledad is awesome," wrote one. "I love her slightly in-check cynicism, her well-honed bullshit detector and her genuine interest and intelligence. ... Attractive. Sharp ... She's a geekboy's dream." Another, an occasional contributor to these very pages, declared that "she's gone far beyond the status of mere Newsbabe. ... We are speaking of the first viable goddess icon of Net culture."

[Paragon]

39. It was not ZDTV or TECH TV

Her show was called "The Site" on MSNBC -- back when the "MS" in their name actually influenced their programming.

[HydroAddict]

41. Thanks.

I stand humbly corrected. But ZiffDavis produced (or had something to do with) the show, right?

[Orangeone]

37. I'm not crazy about her

She used to be on our local news in The Bay Area. She always made mistakes like: "The plane's manifesto...," when she meant manifest, "The Register of Voters...," instead of registrar, etc. It's like she didn't comprehend what she was reading. I was shocked when she got on national news.

[mykpart]

40. I can't help it - I just

gotta like someone with a name like Soledad O'Brien. It's like the name of a Star Trek crew member. And she doesn't nauseate me nearly as much as Diane Sawyer!