This country's dumbest journalist?

[FSogol]

"Shea Allen, an investigative reporter at an Alabama ABC affiliate, got fired after posting this little beauty:

1. I've gone bra-less during a live broadcast and no one was the wiser.
6. I'm frightened of old people and I refuse to do stories involving them or the places they reside.
9. If you ramble and I deem you unnecessary for my story, I'll stop recording but let you think otherwise.
10. I've stolen mail and then put it back. (maybe)"

More at

http://boingboing.net/2013/07/29/reporter-fired-after-blogging.html

[bemildred]

1. That's a very competitive field. We have some of the finest dumb journalists in the world here. nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. LOL... and we are rated 32nd in free press

Right between Suriname and
Lithuania

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index

[midnight]

11. I would like to say I'm surprised, but I'm not...

[FSogol]

5. Here being DU or the US?

[bemildred]

7. This is the US here, too, isn't it? nt

[FSogol]

8. That depends, I suppose. The internet isn't just the US.

[bemildred]

9. That's it, dissemble. You said DU. DU is not the internet. DU is American. We have foreign members.

And we treasure them.

[FSogol]

10. Sorry, no idea what you are angry about. You said here. I asked here being DU or US?

Have a nice day.

[bemildred]

12. The OP is about the country. You posted it. You have a nice day too. nt

[HughBeaumont]

3. I don't know about dumbest, but Cleveland has the most willfully deluded in Kevin O' Brien.

Look his columns up. An unintentional laugh riot.

[Orrex]

4. Has Fox hired her yet?

Or is she overqualified?

[FSogol]

6. She has red hair, but I don't know about her other Fox required "qualifications."

[Mike Daniels]

18. She actually swipes at "conservatives" who may have been offended by her post in another article

So she's probably not FOX material outside of the low-watt bulb operating in her cranium.

[angstlessk]

13. When I was 4 I went through the neighborhood and stole every one's mail

Why, I have no idea...I could not even read at that time..but my mother ... who found out my crime, told me it was a FEDERAL CRIME and that I could go to jail for many, many years...together we went mailbox to mailbox to replace all those letters...

[treestar]

14. How cute!

Maybe you wanted to play mailman!

[angstlessk]

26. At 4 I was..cause of my mom...we re-delivered mail

I had no idea then that it was a crime to steal letters, much less a FEDERAL CRIME...which my mother empathized!

[treestar]

15. Can flat chested women get Fox gigs?

[1-Old-Man]

24. Only if their hair is blond enough.

[JackRiddler]

16. Someone a lot higher than Shea Allen...

Tom Friedman, obviously.

[lpbk2713]

17. Blogging while drunk is not a good idea.

Apparently no one ever told her.

[Fumesucker]

19. Talk about your tough field but I nominate ol Lightning himself

[rurallib]

20. ol Lightning

[FSogol]

21. LOL, is that Wolf Blitzer losing to Andy Ricter?

[Fumesucker]

23. We have some very smart comedians

Our journalists on the other hand not so much.

[Archae]

22. This is a "reporter?"

"4. I've mastered the ability to contort my body into a position that makes me appear much skinner in front of the camera than I actually am."

Learn how to spell "skinnier," Shea.

[Fawke Em]

25. I don't think I'd brag if I'd gone braless and no one noticed.

[Orsino]

27. We'll never learn how dumb they really are...

...until we stop paying them to act dumb.

[joeybee12]

28. A stellar future at FUX Noise awaits her...nt