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News anchor responds to viewer's letter about her weight

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alkemyst said:
People all try to bully when it's anonymous. Put them in front of someone and they remain quiet even about their most passionate arguments.

People have become hateful cowards.
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She was not bullied. It was a private email. You can't shame someone if no one is around to see it. Jennifer Livingston on the other hand made the email public trying to shame the guy by putting his name on the internet.


David Dickson, chairman of the Bullying Prevention Initiative of California. "Bullying, normally, is what someone, in a very mean spirited way, continually and on a repeated basis, does to another person, typically in a social setting in front of other people…It was a stupid letter he wrote, but he commented privately."
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HNNstyle said:
She was not bullied. It was a private email. You can't shame someone if no one is around to see it. Jennifer Livingston on the other hand made the email public trying to shame the guy by putting his name on the internet.
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That's the way I see it. So he either mixed this up with another story or he's.......on a boat.

I don't have time to rehash older news and many of the links I saw probably would be dead now.

😛


But, hey, I could be wrong.
 
mmntech said:
What this lady did was unprofessional in my opinion. I work in that business and know a lot of on-air people. You get the occasional hater or creepy heckler. It goes along with the job. The appropriate thing is to just ignore them. By acknowledging a heckler, especially on-air, you give them exactly what they want.

Where she really went wrong, and where I lost total respect for her, is when she pulled the victim card. She says she's not letting people get to her but obviously they are, or else this never would have happened. She's obviously very self conscious about her weight. Her argument fell apart completely when she introduced race and sex into the argument. Those are things you can't change. Weight is something you can, barring some medical problem. The cruel truth is she's lucky to be an anchor at that weight. The industry is a mean mistress and rarely fair. I'm just bothered by this victim culture in North America today.
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Extremely unprofessional and used her access to the camera to make this public. Then she pulls the victim card and compares it to actual inequalities like race which a person cannot change. If she was a smoking during the news cast, no one would have had a problem with negative email, but somehow obesity is a sacred "cow".
 
HNNstyle said:
She was not bullied. It was a private email. You can't shame someone if no one is around to see it. Jennifer Livingston on the other hand made the email public trying to shame the guy by putting his name on the internet.
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Although I don't think she was bullied in this case, you don't need to have an "audience" to be bullied or shamed.

A kid that is beat up in the bathroom and has his lunch money stolen everyday by a single student is still bullied even though there is no one else there to witness it.
 
alkemyst said:
come at me bro.
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Just read the letter, and I disagree with the letter. I don't watch the news because of someone's looks, i watch the news for substance (not that local or cable news stations really provide that much substance). I'd rather a news anchor be a 400 pound elephant man that gave me real actual news, than having a bitch idiot barbie doll on Fox News spew lies/bullshit and talk about pop culture. THAT is what i find offensive.
 
Phokus said:
Just read the letter, and I disagree with the letter. I don't watch the news because of someone's looks, i watch the news for substance (not that local or cable news stations really provide that much substance). I'd rather a news anchor be a 400 pound elephant man that gave me real actual news, than having a bitch idiot barbie doll on Fox News spew lies/bullshit and talk about pop culture. THAT is what i find offensive.
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I actually wish that she would have addressed the whole "being a role model" point that the guy made rather than focusing on the politically correct elephant in the room. To me, people that focus on sensationalist aspects to news stories are no better than the Fox News idiots that you reference as they care more about ratings than actually doing their job.
 
shortylickens said:
Does anyone else think this is all a scam to get page hits?
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Not at first, but now I do.

The news anchor is kinda dumb. She obviously got insulted/butt hurt about it and wanted to go public with it to show how "tough" she is...with all her finger pointing to emphasize her points.

Ultimately, she should have just gotten over herself and brushed it off.
 
alkemyst said:
There are probably a lot of things in your life that you do that have no advantage and are also detrimental. I like the guys that are unhealthly skinny that complain about fat people day in and day out. I could throw them around like the Hulk did with Loki 😉
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Define unhealthy skinniness and the detriment that comes along with it (aside from being unable to pick up heavy things and being less attractive). I'm 5'7" 130lbs and know I'm a weakling, but at least if I die because of reasons of bad health, it will have nothing to do with my weight. Anorexia aside, obesity is far worse.
 
HamburgerBoy said:
Define unhealthy skinniness and the detriment that comes along with it (aside from being unable to pick up heavy things and being less attractive). I'm 5'7" 130lbs and know I'm a weakling, but at least if I die because of reasons of bad health, it will have nothing to do with my weight. Anorexia aside, obesity is far worse.
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Try 6'0" 130-140. Tall, skinny nerds (I call them Ganglions) have no business discussing weight issues.
 
Probably not healthy, but how does it compare to obesity in terms of bad health? What illnesses will they endure as a result of that?
 
highland145 said:
rickets.
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Google and Wikipedia say it's mostly a problem that affects literally-starving children, mostly a deficiency of vitamin D, calcium, and other particular nutrients. 130lbs 6'0" is certainly lanky and unsightly, but I don't think that's starvation-level skinniness.
 
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