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Kirsten GUM's Predictions
GreatCube wrote:
OLN is doing a fantastic coverage job, but using Kirsten Gum for color commentary is a stroll into the Twilight Zone. It is like using Terry Bradshaw to cover professional squash matches. But the decision to use Gum mirrors a general social trend - to treat news coverage, talk shows and sporting events like they are NASCAR events, and in doing so, appeal to the lowest common denominator to achieve the highest possible rating. OLN has made a great commitment to bike racing coverage, and done so with aplomp. A little tweaking, starting with " emergency gum surgery ", would make it even better! Just don't remove the pirate guy and his fabulous beverage! |
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Kirsten GUM's Predictions
Lewdvig wrote in message ... Why not hire one of the cute young female pros that isn't racing in July. Better looking IMO and you know they could kick most of our asses. Because Gum is professional TV presenter and reader and they are not. |
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Kirsten GUM's Predictions
James Cagney wrote: "Callistus Valerius" wrote in message ... I brought this up earlier in this newsgroup about her lack of credentials and was scolded by most here in rbr. All I can figure is that they all so dazzled by her looks, that they would wish there was more Kirsten face time and less TDF. The thing is Ms. Gum does zero for me in terms of looks - honestly, i just don't think she is that hot. Put another way, her looks do not zero out her obvious lack of any cycling knowledge and broadcast professionalism. I have worked in the biz and understand the "Host" usually does not have much experience in the sport and is merely a manager of the "experts" The problem is her managment skills and basic lead in questions are so non-professional. She is either dating someone at the channel or knows someone at the top, because she would never get this job on pure talent. I am sure she does fine work in whatever she did before, but you can tell she is nervous and has no idea what to ask the boys! on the job experience i guess It's one thing that she doesn't know cycling, but she has no broadcasting skills it seems. She looks really nervous... stammering over words and fumbling sentences especially in segues back to the boys in the booth. But apparently she is having a busy summer doing other shows as well. I wonder how much she knows about sporting dogs and mountain climbing (he,he) ... http://www.facetheelements.com/global_extremes/ http://espn.go.com/outdoors/general/...dog_chron.html Ed |
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Kirsten GUM's Predictions
"GreatCube" wrote in message
om... OLN is doing a fantastic coverage job, but using Kirsten Gum for color commentary is a stroll into the Twilight Zone. It is like using Terry Bradshaw to cover professional squash matches. But the decision to use Gum mirrors a general social trend - to treat news coverage, talk shows and sporting events like they are NASCAR events, and in doing so, appeal to the lowest common denominator to achieve the highest possible rating. OLN has made a great commitment to bike racing coverage, and done so with aplomp. A little tweaking, starting with " emergency gum surgery ", would make it even better! Ironically, Kirsten came from NASCAR (Fox) before OLN. |
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Kirsten GUM's Predictions
She is utterly horrible. She is meant to give the impression that
women know nothing about cycling. I'm a woman and I know a lot about cycling, and I find her presentation insulting to my entire gender. While I'm on a rant about OLN's nasty sexism, why don't they *ever* cover any women's cycling events??? I am embarrassed for OLN, that they chose to go the network news route -- i.e., the male anchor/female anchor thing. It's so unnecessary. Bob could give all of his little explanations and presentations without a lead-in. I wish Bob was in the broadcast booth with Phil and Paul. I hope they put him back there for the Vuelta. Joanne "GreatCube" wrote in message . com... OLN is doing a fantastic coverage job, but using Kirsten Gum for color commentary is a stroll into the Twilight Zone. It is like using Terry Bradshaw to cover professional squash matches. But the decision to use Gum mirrors a general social trend - to treat news coverage, talk shows and sporting events like they are NASCAR events, and in doing so, appeal to the lowest common denominator to achieve the highest possible rating. OLN has made a great commitment to bike racing coverage, and done so with aplomp. A little tweaking, starting with " emergency gum surgery ", would make it even better! Ironically, Kirsten came from NASCAR (Fox) before OLN. |
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Kirsten GUM's Predictions
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:25:03 GMT, Joanne Corsano
wrote: She is utterly horrible. She is meant to give the impression that women know nothing about cycling. I'm a woman and I know a lot about cycling, and I find her presentation insulting to my entire gender. While I'm on a rant about OLN's nasty sexism, why don't they *ever* cover any women's cycling events??? Don't they cover the women's mountaing biking events? Or is it only the downhill events? I know I've seen women's downhill covered, but perhaps this was on ESPN. I am embarrassed for OLN, that they chose to go the network news route -- i.e., the male anchor/female anchor thing. It's so unnecessary. Bob could give all of his little explanations and presentations without a lead-in. I don't like it, either. I think the whole 1/2 hour pre-race show is fluff. I wish Bob was in the broadcast booth with Phil and Paul. I hope they put him back there for the Vuelta. Joanne They'll have them together for the Vuelta. I think OLN is trying to broaden the appeal of the TdF. It might work with someone who's never seen bike racing, but for me I'd rather have the Big Three in the booth. -- Bob M in CT Remove 'x.' to reply |
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Kirsten GUM's Predictions
Joanne Corsano wrote:
She is utterly horrible. She is meant to give the impression that women know nothing about cycling. I'm a woman and I know a lot about cycling, and I find her presentation insulting to my entire gender. While I'm on a rant about OLN's nasty sexism, why don't they *ever* cover any women's cycling events??? I've seen plenty of women's cycling on OLN, but can't say that it was exclusively women's events. I am embarrassed for OLN, that they chose to go the network news route -- i.e., the male anchor/female anchor thing. It's so unnecessary. Bob could give all of his little explanations and presentations without a lead-in. I wish Bob was in the broadcast booth with Phil and Paul. I hope they put him back there for the Vuelta. Bobke would be much less happy about that, at least partly. -- -- Lynn Wallace http://www.xmission.com/~lawall "I'm not proud. We really haven't done everything we could to protect our customers. Our products just aren't engineered for security." --Microsoft VP in charge of Windows OS Development, Brian Valentine. |
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Kirsten GUM's Predictions
Joanne Corsano wrote in message ... She is utterly horrible. She is meant to give the impression that women know nothing about cycling. I'm a woman and I know a lot about cycling, and I find her presentation insulting to my entire gender. While I'm on a rant about OLN's nasty sexism, why don't they *ever* cover any women's cycling events??? I watched a bit of the rest day retrospective this evening. She has a lot wrong with her. She needs to do something with her hair. And whoever told her that green is her color is color blind. Way too much makeup tonite--she looked greasy. If L.L.Bean doesn't have an shirt with an OLN logo in a better color they should just slap a logo on one of her shirts. The touching thing is just strange. Lots of women touch people to make points while talking, but not while they are on TV. It is a given that she doesn't know much about cycling--although they are using that way too much, with too many dumb questions--at least tonite. TV presenters are usually very quick studies--they can pick up a lot of facts about what they will be talking about and she probably has that abiltiy. But OLN has decided that she will be the voice of the idiot and they are hitting it too hard. Tomorrow she will be back to a couple of minutes cut into the show, which is much easier to take. |
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