Posted on 11/01/2008 2:35:45 PM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
Check out the Bay News 9 reporterette, as she files her nails this morning, during Salin Palin's rally, in New Port Richey, Florida:
We believe that this is probably [!!!] Bay News 9's own Carol Minn Vacca:
Here is Carol Minn Vacca's official biography at Bay News 9:
Carol Minn Vacca - Reporter
http://www.baynews9.com/content/13/2006/5/1/156612.htmlCarol began her television career in Macon, Ga., WMAZ TV as an associate producer, later becoming the weekday morning and noon anchor. She later moved further north to Louisville, Ky. As a reporter at WHAS TV, she covered everything from the Kentucky Derby to tornadoes. She was also the weekend anchor during her two years there. A Georgia girl, Carol was ready for warmer winters again, and traded in tornadoes for hurricanes when she joined Bay News 9.
Carol grew up in Atlanta, Ga., where she attended the Georgia Institute of Technology. During her time there, she was named Miss Atlanta. After obtaining her Bachelor of Science degree in international affairs, she joined the gubernatorial campaign staff of former Georgia Governor Roy Barnes as his scheduler. Shortly after, she entered Emory University School of Law. Almost immediately after obtaining her juris doctor degree, she was offered her first television job.
Carol was born in Seoul, Korea, and immigrated to the United States with her family when she was 6 years old. At the time, the only English words she knew were "Coca Cola." Having grown up in the south, she says she feels like she is home here in Tampa Bay. In her spare time, Carol loves anything outdoors, especially running or roller blading and now is enjoying the beaches of Tampa Bay. She also wants to become a better golfer.
Contact The Reporter: E-mail Carol.
For those of you who don't know, this is Roy Barnes:
Roy Barnes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_BarnesRoy Eugene Barnes (born March 11, 1948) was the governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from January 1999 until January 2003. He is a member of the United States Democratic Party...
Georgia Supreme Court dismisses Barnes case challenging voter ID
The Georgia Supreme Court on June 12, 2007 unanimously dismissed a legal challenge to the state's voter ID law. Former Gov. Roy Barnes, argued before the court earlier this year that the voter ID law was unconstitutional because Ms. Lake the plantifff and others did not have driver's licenses and were therefore excluded in a discriminatory manner...
Also, the original photo was a little dark and grainy - note that the photo displayed here was run through some software so as to brighten it up just a little.
Bump.
There was a Fox News reporter doing her hair during Obama’s speech.
She sure looked bored. Maybe the rally didn’t start yet. I saw some people texting in the front row during Obama speech on TV. Who knows maybe she has heard it a hundred times and knows it. We can’t say what the problem is with a picture as much as FREEPERS love to do that.
I’m shocked, absolutely shocked! Do you think maybe she is a liberal journalist?
bttt
My experience with these people: They are stuck on themselves and totally self-absorbed.
So, a reporter was doing her nails while a speech was going on, and most eyes were upon the speaker, not upon her? BFD! Where does it say everyone must stand at attention during anyone’s speech?
TV reporting is Hollywood for ugly people.
(did someone hit here in the face with a cast iron frypan?)
here=her
You can almost see the arrogance all over her face.
I’m not so sure I have a problem with this.
I took a dump during his infomercial.
...guess if there was a fiery train wreck she’d trim her...
(I’ll just let you finish it)
maybe she had a hangnail :)
I am married to a reporter. They do this stuff every day. Day in, day out. Generally speaking, the job of a TV reporter on an assignment like this is “hurry up and wait.” They are not going to listen to the speech over and over. They are going to look at their phone, check their hair, text their friends, and file their nails.
Think about what you might do during a boring meeting or conference call at work. Why would you expect the reporters to be any different.
Do read “anti” Palin, read “bored” reporter.
Things slow over at the boiler room? Man I will be glad when all of you trolls dissapear?
And you, sir, spent your time wisely! Was Dr. John Luntz there to audit your reactions while occupado?
November 5th: Ending date of the Freeper Boomer generation.
"Some animals are more equal than others..."
A reporter for Gay News 9 filing her nails while a patriot speaks! I’m shocked, I tell ya, shocked!
Maybe it is a BFD, if we are supposed to believe her when she files her report on the rally. But then again we all know that it is already written don't we?
Fair & Balanced news. We’ll tell you what to think...we have a journalism degree.
I don't mean to be a total jerk, but the job of a reporter is to REPORT the story, which means that the reporter first has to get out and learn the story.
If the television personality in question is just waiting for the "lights, camera, action" cue, then the personality isn't a "reporter", but rather is what the British would call a "news reader".
PS: Note that Carol Minn Vacca's offical title at Bay News 9 is "Reporter".
PPS: And please also note that Carol Minn Vacca got her start in politics in the employ of the DEM voter fraud champion, Roy Barnes.
With all respect, you sound like you have no idea what the TV news business is all about.
If there is nothing going on, there is nothing to report. Thats really the problem with the 24 hour news cycle.
When the politician is speaking, what exactly is the reporter supposed to do? Especially when they’ve heard the same speech 40 times in the last week. If you think you’d sit there and “report” you are mistaken.
Also, if she is waiting for the “live shot” what is it she should be doing?
While I do not disagree that most of the media has a liberal bias, you are making assumptions about the basic aspects of the job that the public rarely sees. Just because a reporter takes a break when there is nothing new happening, don’t jump all over her.
She's a local reporter, not a national reporter - this is the first time she's ever heard the speech.
If there is nothing going on, there is nothing to report.
I'm quite confident [knowing absolutely nothing about the town a priori] that this is the biggest thing which has happened to New Port Richey in a decade or more.
If Sarah Palin's visit and the thousands of people who came to hear her speak aren't a phenomenon worth studying [moreso, say, than the filing of one's own fingernails], then what on earth is a phenomenon worth studying?
With all respect, you sound like you have no idea what the TV news business is all about.
And, again, with all due respect, you seem to be describing the job of "NEWS READER" rather than the job of "REPORTER".
A reporter would be taking notes and writing copy and interviewing people in the crowd and paying attention and scrutinizing and analyzing and trying to figure out the zeitgeist of the thing, whereas an arrogant, elitist, self-absorbed news reader would be filing her nails waiting for the next "lights, camera, action" cue to read someone else's copy off the teleprompter.
Unfortunately, it is worthless trying to have a conversation with someone who is unwilling to open their minds just a little bit to the experience of someone who has been there.
It would probably be a shock to know that newspaper photographers don't always stay to the end of a football game, after they have gotten "the shot." Local, National, doesnt matter. If they have written the story and its going to fill the 30 second slot, they dont have to go out and "report" any more. This isnt newspaper reporting and it isn't writing books.
You've watched too many movies. Local TV folks do not do a lot of investigative reporting. Or in depth reporting. They go to the event, get a minutes worth of tape and go on the air. If they are going live, they need to stand around for a while waiting for the newscast to come to them.
For a local reporter, these things are a nightmare because they and their crews are relegated to the worst positions and they are treated like rookies by the national press. AND, they have to put up with crap from folks like you who do not know what you are talking about.
In mathematics, they would call it quod erat demonstrandum.
To be fair, the photo was taken before any of the speeches began. The photo was dark and grainy because it was early twighlight hours.
Having said that; her attitude did not improve during the rally. I was standing near the press platform, I tried to read the body language of the reporters as the various speakers presented. None of them looked very enthused about any of the events (sadly,especially the invocation and prayer).
I took the photo because I thought her attitude and disinterest was tacky. It's interesting, perhaps telling, but no surprise and no great scandal in my opinion.
I give up. You are right. The reporters should be out in the crowds running around asking the same question to every person there. They should be on the air every second of the day.
As someone that not only married one of those reporters, but who makes their living working with those people, I should quit and go back to school. Evidently I dont know what I am doing.
I bow to your superior knowledge and experience.
Good luck and good night. In the end, we will vote for the same person, and I guess thats all that matters.
In fairness to Ms. Macca Vin, Sarah Palin had not even arrived when that photo was taken, so she was not expressing any boredom or disrespect toward Palin. Ms. Macca Vin had to wait for four hours for Palin to arrive — that’s when the photo was taken. To be sure, most of the media is in the tank for Obama, but this photo does not portray media bias, just the amount of down time that reporters spend waiting for the candidates to show up. So it’s unfair to single Ms. Macca Vin out as the face of media bias. We need to remember that these are real people with feelings; let’s not sink to the level of the Left.
I’ve never posted here before so this comment is not directed to Vermont Lt.
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