Katy Tur On Assignment: "Have You Ever Seen an Easter Bunny on Ice Skates Before?"
Last week, we reported that Katy Tur, daughter of legendary chopper reporter Bob Tur and current paramour of MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann, had landed a freelance general assignment reporting gig with CW11.
Her addition to the CW11 team came amid some speculation about her qualifications for the job. All of which left us wondering what type of stories Ms. Tur would be reporting on.
Recently, CW11 posted a clip on its Web site featuring Ms. Tur on one of her early assignments. It's called "Easter Fun in the City."
Therein, Ms. Tur traverses the city on Easter, interviewing churchgoers outside St. Patrick's Cathedral and kids at the children's hat parade on Fifth Avenue.
"Easter bonnets in all shapes and sizes from bunny chandeliers to precariously perched gardens to mere baskets tied to your head with string," reported Ms. Tur. "At the annual children's hat parade, young and old come out to show off their wit."
Along the way, Ms. Tur shows off a style of reporting that is a touch more earnest than that of Mr. Olbermann. No "World's Worst Person" nominations here! For the most part, she remains off camera. But roughly 53 seconds into the clip, we get a brief glimpse of the notoriously under-photographed blonde cub reporter, who flashes a bright smile at the camera.
Our favorite bit comes towards the end, when Ms. Tur asks the young girl in the pink hat, "Have you ever seen an Easter Bunny on ice skates before?"
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The news Director at WPIX should be ashamed. I wonder if Sam Zell knows what's going on here?? I'm sure he wouldn't be happy.
Good grief Felix, check out these stories, tons more "in-studio face" time, (with a pretty bad wardrobe too boot!) Nice gig she got for someone wholly unqualified....
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Her reporting has hardly been all bunnies on ice skates, the way you'd expect a cub reporter's beat to be. She was, after all, the first one sent racing to the scene when the crane collapsed in midtown Manhattan.
She's 24 years old, with hardly any experience, and they're sending her out to cover the biggest stories in New York, live. How DO you suppose THAT ever happened?
Anybody remember that old movie "Up Close and Personal"? Where veteran newsguy Robert Redford takes neophyte cutie Michelle Pfeiffer, who just wants to be on teevee, under his wing and teaches her everything he knows about the business while boinking her at the same time? She goes from nobody to network news superstar while his career goes down the toilet...all to the tune of Celine Dion belting "I'm everything I am because you loved meeeeee..."
Wait, I thought that kind of nonsense only happened in the movies. Guess not.
Tally Atwater lives!!!!
NYO needs to make this a weekly feature-the "best" of Katy Tur's on-air flubs for the week. Note that she's gone from being a brunette with higlights to being a bleached out blonde. That's supposed to help her reporter skills?
She is beyond awful. How in the world does anyone without any on-camera experience land a job in the largest media market in the free world? Oh right, "connections". Her inexperience and utter unsuitability for this job is apparent when you watch the work of others in this market. For the good of broadcasting (and humanity), this news bunny needs to be banished to some small market in the middle of nowhere to hone her skills, her NEWS skills that is. Obviously she's already figured out how to use her other "skills" to get this job to begin with.
Don't know if she believes in the Easter Bunny but I bet Miss Tur could certainly testify to the goodies that a well-connected Sugar Daddy can bring you (i.e., a NYC reporting job).
And the goodies are just getting better...last time I looked, she was in the studio, presenting the day's news from the presidential campaign trail...doing standups and sitting at the desk with the anchors, chatting with them and offering her personal opinions on what would happen next in the race, just like a seasoned observer of the political scene with decades of experience covering Washington.
People, I don't care what you say, this didn't happen because she had a terrific audition tape.