I disagree with the Gasia Makelian & Sherr Min Chow thoughts. However, you did hit the nail on the head about Gasia smiling into the camera like a drunk deer in the headlights, no matter what story was being reported. That sure got on my nerves.
As for Sher Min Chow, she's an older asian version of Katie Couric. I'd rather see Chow Nguyen instead of her.
Modern local news is a joke these days anyway. How can you watch any station that will use a dog to boost ratings, another that highlights which restaurants have slime in their ice-machines, or one that has Jonathon Walton as a daily segment?
Chow has longevity on her side. But she's totally lacking in other departments.
She's barely a mediocre reporter and word in the newsroom is that the only reason she's kept around is because of EEOC.
A good example of her mediocrity was during Yao Ming's first news conference. She decided to show how "Chinese" she was by asking him a question in his native tongue. She got six words into it, stuttered, froze up, then sat back down. It looked like what happens when a kid practices her vocabulary words all night and then blows it the next day during the spelling bee.
Someone in the newsroom once showed her an interesting recently-purchased trinket. She didn't recognize that it was covered in numbers 1-12 written in Chinese. The owner (who knew what it was) asked if she could read any of it. She said she couldn't.
Al Sharpton likes to call people "Ring Dings" -- back on the outside, white on the inside, and no nuts.
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Chow has longevity on her side. But she's totally lacking in other departments.
She's barely a mediocre reporter and word in the newsroom is that the only reason she's kept around is because of EEOC.
A good example of her mediocrity was during Yao Ming's first news conference. She decided to show how "Chinese" she was by asking him a question in his native tongue. She got six words into it, stuttered, froze up, then sat back down. It looked like what happens when a kid practices her vocabulary words all night and then blows it the next day during the spelling bee.
Someone in the newsroom once showed her an interesting recently-purchased trinket. She didn't recognize that it was covered in numbers 1-12 written in Chinese. The owner (who knew what it was) asked if she could read any of it. She said she couldn't.
Al Sharpton likes to call people "Ring Dings" -- back on the outside, white on the inside, and no nuts.
I don't know what the Chinese equivalent is.