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Lunchtime Quickie: Drunk Lady vs Lady Reporter
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Mean, and also socially stigmatizing to people who do have STDs. I get it, drunk people are annoying and she'strying to do her job, but she's also on television and doesn't need to publicly shame a stranger having a good time in New Orleans during Mardi Gras.
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My sympathies are with the reporter. If people came up to me and went WHOO CALIFORNIA REPRESENT in my ear when I was at work, I'd stigmatize the hell out of them.
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I'm sure the reporter did not relish being sent to Bourbon Street to report on the wasted post-Super Bowl stragglers wandering around. It's an OBVIOUS setup to draw video bombers -that's what the news director sent her there to draw.
So when she drew a video bomber, as she knew she would, and hit her that hard? Especially when, as post-Super Bowl Bourbon Street zombie tourist-drunks go, this one was pretty innocuous?
Yeah, dick move. Nothing forgivably spontaneous about any of that.
So when she drew a video bomber, as she knew she would, and hit her that hard? Especially when, as post-Super Bowl Bourbon Street zombie tourist-drunks go, this one was pretty innocuous?
Yeah, dick move. Nothing forgivably spontaneous about any of that.
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I feel like sending the reporter to that street is a dumb waste of time for all involved, including drunken rando.
Also, pretty sure the reporter lady had the line ready from the get-go.
Also, pretty sure the reporter lady had the line ready from the get-go.
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@9, oops! That's what I get for pretending to be plugged in about sports teams and their activities.
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Yes, yes, let's all wring our hands at how horrible the news media treats lesser humans.
Still, that was fucking hysterical. Didn't even bat an eye.
Still, that was fucking hysterical. Didn't even bat an eye.
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I guess I'll be in the minority and say good on the reporter. "In the street" reporting is common, but it's not an invitation to barge in on someone while they are working. Perhaps shaming the barger isn't such a bad strategy. And it was funny.
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She's working in public. She has no more right to that street corner than the friendly drunken tourist. If you don't want to be interrupted by drunk people, don't report from Bourbon Street.
Given how quick she was to spring the STD stuff, I assume this happens a lot to her.
Given how quick she was to spring the STD stuff, I assume this happens a lot to her.
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@14: I don't know why, but those four words just made my whole week. They so perfectly describe how I feel about so many things right now. Thank you.
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What was reporter lady's reason for being out on Bourbon Street at bar closing but to talk to people? What kind of people did she think she'd lure over to talk to her? She and her producer should find new jobs because neither are intelligent enough to waste the networks time on.
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There's absolutely zero chance that the reporter chose to report from bourbon street at what was probably like 4am. I'm on the reporters side. Drunk lady wandered into the conversation like a child, she's out of her depth. No sympathy for people doing stupid things while drunk, that's what getting drunk is all about.
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The reporter reminds me of the kind of bitches I had to put up with back in school. But that was a pretty smart maneuver she pulled off. I think there is a good possibility that a drunker and fully uninhibited person would have started talking about STDs, though.
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