Reply #16: Here's a link

[emmadoggy]

to a video and story about her appearance on the Today show after the hoopla.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20053504,00.html

She still comes off as pretty ditzy to me but I can definitely empathize with what happened to her. However, part of competing in these pageants is that you are supposed to be "poised" and "collected" and able to put your words together to talk about issues. In that regard, she still failed. But I do feel bad for how she's been made a laughing-stock over this. In the video of the pageant question, she definitely had that sort of glazed over, deer-in-the-headlights kind of look on her face. Like her brain just disengaged and words just started tumbling from her mouth. But at the same time, you can tell that she was trying to SOUND like she knew what she was saying with her sad little "and such as like that" comments.

I have sympathy for her embarrassment, but I'm not 100% convinced she really knew the right answer anyway (despite her answer on the Today show - she had time to think about it or have someone give her the appropriate response before the show.) And she certainly seems the type that I could see on Jay Leno's Jaywalking segments being totally clueless.


edited to add my own "public embarrassment" story.....I have my AAS in radio/tv broadcasting :eyes:. I attended a small technical school where the local PBS affiliate operated from within the technical school thereby allowing the broadcasting students to get some hands on experience by working on some aspects of the PBS station. One of the things we did was to produce and broadcast our own "newscast" twice a week. They were short - 15 minutes one day, 20 minutes the other and they were definitely small potatoes - mostly community info or just short blips that we got off the AP wire. Anyway, for each newscast the teacher assigned each student a "job position". One time you would have to anchor, the next you might be the director or producer or technical director or camera operator etc. One day when I was anchoring, there was a short community info blip about a snowmobile group having an event. They were called the Sno-drifters. However, when the story was typed up for the teleprompter, it was typed as Snodrifters.
As I'm doing my own deer-in-the-headlights, glazed over, just-get-the-words-out bit I read the blip..."The Austin Snodrifters...". You know, SNOD-drifters. And this is over the airwaves to the public. Oh yes, I caught quite a bit of crap from my classmates about that one!!