Connie Chung Saves TV News
Say this for Connie Chung: She has made any future TV network think twice about cancelling her shows. What MSNBC got for killing her minimally-rated talk show with husband Maury Povich, "Weekends with Maury and Connie," was nearly three minutes of Lynchian weirdness as the former CBS and CNN anchor stood on a grand piano and belted out a tuneless goodbye, to the tune of "Thanks for the Memories":
"The thing I loved the most/ 'Bout hubby as co-host/ Is all those other anchors were as dull as melba toast!" Etc. Watch it here, though I am not liable if your computer melts.
I'll tell you this, though. I hardly ever watched "Weekends," nor, before that, her sensationalistic nightly monstrosity on CNN. But an anchor going nuts, Broadway-style, in an evening gown? That's a TiVo season pass! I think we've just found the solution to the network evening news crisis. Somebody get Katie Couric a piano player, stat.
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I want to see the last piece that Connie Chung did for GMA where there was a woman who lost a loved one at the Towers. There was this woman in a still at the end of the piece with a news reporter standing next to her with a baseball cap on and holding a microphone - The news reporter was Jodi Husentruit who disapeared from the parking lot where she lived early morning on her way to work at KIMT TV in Mason City Iowa more than 10 years ago.!!!! Fact !!!! I saw it myself along with many others who didn't know who this woman was. I am from this area near mason City and watched Jodi do the news with Don Harmon in the mornign and at noon each day. I ask that you look it up in GMA's news archives and / or contact Connie herself to see if she remembers the piece. I would have no idea why she wouldn't I made a big enoughstink about it that there should have been some skuttle butt about it from the U.S.Justice Department to KIMT TV and on to the Iowa Justice Departmen but no one is acting on it.
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