I saw enough of her on that morning show they did with those two impossibly stupid men, Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade.
Also, now this is just me, but - I have a HUGE aversion to seeing women anchors dressed as though they're going to a cocktail party rather than into the newsroom. And on Pox, that seems to be all they're interested in! Heavy makeup, fat greased-up lips, tight dresses and skirts, revealing tops - LOTS of bare arms and low necklines, short hemlines and 4-6 inch spike heels. ALONG WITH clear lucite "desks" and table tops where you can see underneath, and camera angles set at knee level so you sure won't miss the long provocatively-crossed bare legs everywhere. I just find that completely revolting! It's almost like soft-core porn!
Granted, that's just me. When I did on-camera stuff, I never in a million years would have dressed like that, and I didn't. It bothers the hell outta me! Hell, I'm watching Andrea Mitchell right now, in a scoop neck sleeveless top - she looks like she's dressed for a backyard barbecue rather than anchoring an hour of cable network news. It's anything but age-appropriate in her case, as well. Granted, back when I was working, women were still fairly new to this, and there was a LOT more concern about how you dressed. If you were a serious news reporter or anchor, you wanted to dress for credibility, not for - well, shall we say "fuck-ability." I am just DEEPLY bothered by so many women on the air who seem so determined (or they're directed by those farther up the food chain) to show as much skin as they can get away with. And Pox Noise is notorious for that!
I remember reading tons of stuff about the election that Megyn Kelly anchored with kkkarl rove. It was the one where rove balked at calling Ohio for President Obama (which struck me as extremely fishy), whereupon Megyn defied him and declared these were the numbers they were getting from their own internal Pox Noise-sanctioned number-crunchers down the hall. So she then got up and took her microphone and walked down the hall with the cameras following her, toward the room where the in-house election vote count was being supervised. And I remember reading how the technical director in the control room was exhorting the camera operators to pull out to the widest wide shots so everybody could see her legs as she headed down the hall - in this blinding white skirted suit whose hemline was predictably nice 'n' short. I just have a SUPER MASSIVE PROBLEM with that. Maybe for me it's just leftover worry about maintaining objective credibility as a female journalist at a time when women on the air in principal news positions - like reporters and especially anchors - where you worried about being regarded merely as a token or maybe it was assumed that you'd used the casting couch route to get where you got. Yeah. Back in the 70's, that WAS INDEED something that many of us actually did worry about. And any woman who dressed that way just screwed it up for the rest of us who were trying to prove we'd earned those jobs by our WORK: our craft, our writing skills, our reporting skills, our interviewing skills, our production skills, our communication skills, our overall knowledge that would allow us to report and comment and ad-lib intelligently, our stamina during long, tense, and demanding breaking stories, the solid sources we'd tried to cultivate, etc. It was NOT about how gussied-up or sexy we could look. The BOARDROOM look, rather than the bedroom look.
That shit just still bothers the hell outta me, and I've been retired from the news biz since 1996. It STILL bothers me. And I see Pox Noise as a leading offender in this. And because of their ratings "success" that's led to such crap metastasizing across other TV and cable networks AND local news as well. But if Pox is aiming at its target audience, which is predominantly horny old white men (like roger ailes perhaps?), then I guess that's what they feel compelled to do, and what they think works.
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