It’s hard to do a newscast when a story is given an entirely different meaning by a blooper…(Adult language)
And, yes, Shepard Smith has “been there”…(Adult language)
These bloopers are embarrassing, yes, but it shows that everything can’t be packaged on TV. It’s also interesting to see the anchors “break character” and become human beings as it dawns on them that something slipped out that came from…somewhere. (And these Fox News folks handled it as charmingly as they could…)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.