WHET Connie Chung

Here is a good summary of her career. It’s from a great website called Wikipedia.

She got as high as an Asian woman could in the media world. She was sort of shoved out once she made a faux pas. She never really made a serious come back after that.

She got exposed as a typical robotic, cold-hearted Asian female.

You better stop it, Connie Chung!

R2 what faux pas?

She was a news anchor in this season's House of Cards

Gee, I dunno.

CNN brought her on for a nightly news hour and promoted it to the hilt. She was going to be the face of the network.

The show was shockingly bad on the most basic level. She could barely read the teleprompter, and her interviews were amateurish and awkward.

They had to start taping the show instead of airing live so they could edit her. She sort of limped along and was canceled, justifiably.

Me rove money. Gonna mally Jew-boy and get high status. Me top 1%, you palt of da rowry masses

I thought she ran into Tonya Harding in 1994.

She loves Maury longtime

Connie Chung's interview with Newt Gingrich's mother (where she asked Gingrich's mother to whisper "just between you and me" what Gingrich had called Hillary Clinton, then used the quote on the air) is generally considered her undoing. I think it was shortly after this that CBS canned her from co-anchoring with Dan Rather (Rather apparently couldn't stand sharing anchoring duties with her). She later went to ABC and then to CNN and very briefly to MSNBC, but her career was never the same again.

R12 She was ahead of her time... Exposing something trashy like that would be cosidered nothing now.

Well, she sings (slightly) better than Yoko Ono.

Connie Chung reporting ethics:

R16 ^ That Connie went all the way

Ching chong Ching chong.

I'm impressed. Only a handful of the posters in this thread took the lazy route and went after her for her race.

For DL, that's progress.

She Maury's jewy nature of cheap journalism and make Grindrich mom admit Newt said Hillary wad a bitch while Hillary first lady. Thats what happened!

Then she adopted a kid who would of been better off as a cherished child than a career crash bandage. You?

The last time I saw her (years ago) she was on her husband's show, obviously drunk, in a long gown and improbably singing while sitting on a piano.

It was even more bizarre given what type of show Maury has.

Lisa Ling worships her, for obvious reasons. She's very generous to up-and-coming Asian journalists. It's sad that she had so many gaffes and missteps like the interview with Newt Gingrich's mother (which was admittedly hilarious).

It's too bad. I actually like Connie. She was good at her job but the missteps hurt her, and I think being associated with Maury hurt her credibility because his show is so trashy.

R23 That "bitch" reveal would be considered genius in today's tabloid media.

R 20 Do you think Seth Macfarlane takes the 'lazy route'?

Was Connie sexually assaulted, or did that only happen at Fox?

Eye to Eye! That was Connie's own show, right? I remember the network put it on hiatus saying it would return, but then it never did.

R26 yes I do as Tricia Takanawa is Japanese but she clearly has a Chinese accent. I find the racist jokes on here odd but I guess some gay men like to dish it but most certainly can not take it. I get the pointless bitchery.....not the tired and stale Chinese/Asian stereotypes circa 1985.

And Connie Chung has so many things you can joke about, from the gaffes to that batshit cabaret performance. So much material that has nothing to do with her ethnicity. Yet racist loser trolls gonna troll.

I'd enjoy seeing her back in the spotlight.

The SNL skit spoofing the Connie Chung/mama Gingrich interview was gold.

R31 She's 71. She may be as senile as Trump.

The only thing Connie did wrong was not marrying the right white guy.

R34 = Julie Chen

I never got the Connie-Maury union. They seemed like they were on such different levels of journalism. Like if Andrea Mitchell dropped Greenspan for Jerry Springer, or if Dan Rather married Jenny Jones.

R36, Maury povich probably was a real journalist until he got his TV gig.

As an eldergay from the DC area, I remember when Maury was the biggest thing on local TV. He had a mid-day show called 'Panorama'. I think he and Connie (who's also from the DC area) met in the 70s when she was possibly an intern at some DC show. When he got 'A Current Affair' in the 1980s, that began his slide to tabloid TV. He's probably laughing all the way to the bank now, but that show of his is unwatchable after an episode or two, so fake.

Still holding up in her seventies. Probably got some work done...

They both look kinda fake, now that you mention it....

R38 Holy Shit, I totally remember Panorama!!

I remember Connie being big on KNXT way back in the late 70s-early 80s. It was a big deal when she went national.

And speaking of Chinese journalists.... what about John Yang?

He's gay...and maybe the first to come out among network reporters. No one ever mentions him. What's the word on him?

I came first.

Is she out-of-her mind drunk in R7's video??????

Wow.

R45 It would seem so.

That's the "performance" I remembered upthread.

Wasn't her only faux pax being married to a low life such as Povich? Just askin'/

No, she had an interview with Marlon Brando and she just giggled the whole time...I used to defend her...Now I think she is kind a dumb.

Her overwhelming desire for Maury and having a child didn't leave her any time for anything else.

In those days when you called Hillary a bitch, or rather got someone else to do it for you, old Hillary got even.

Now she's just pathetic, and so is Connie.

r15 Connie Chung and Yoko Ono oddly live in the same apartment building on Central Park. Coincidences.

All you [italic]Family Guy[/italic] clip posters made me think of Tricia Toyota, the Japanese-American LA news anchor from the 1970s and 1980s. WEHT her?

Did Commie ever have her baby?

I would replace Whoopi with Connie Chung on The View. But how old is she now? But she is that special blend of tabloid/news.

R49, that sketch could NEVER get on the air now. But I'm laughing my ass off.

[quote]Tricia Toyota

Tritia, not Tricia.

No tell. Ancient Chinese secret!

What did she say to Brando to get him so mad?

I didn't know this, but according to Wiki, the final straw (a few months after the Gingrich interview) was an insensitive question she posed to the Oklahoma Fire Department ("Can you handle this?") after the 1995 bombing. She got a negative reaction from the locals as well as the viewers and was offered to be demoted or resign by the network. She resigned.

I watched her as a kid and I liked her, if not for she was pretty and someone that looked different than everyone else on the news. Like most at the time, I found her marriage to Maury perplexing, as well as disappointing, and I was sad she didn't have the longevity in her. I was rooting for her.

Also according to Wiki, she also told the outspoken naturalised U.S. citizen Martina Navratilova to go back to Czechoslovakia ... in 2002.

:/

Apparently, she was sexually harassed in college by the doctor who delivered her.

I always liked Bobby Lee's impression on Mad TV

kd Lang found her annoying as well

But Connie rose high in the network news because she was good at being ambulance chaser - going after the headline maker of the week - veering into tabloid territory. In fairness Barbara Walters was doing the same thing.

But then the CBS fallout happened, and she withdrew for two years (to be with her baby) to reassess her future. When she was ready to come back, she was inundated with offers - but she chose ABC - problem was they didn't have a "home" for her to be a regular. She was like a floating anchor. Subbing on World News Tonight, doing reports for 20/20. At one point they expanded 20/20 to multiple nights and she was to anchor one of those nights. But just as quickly as she sat in the anchor chair, they cancelled her 20/20 broadcast and scaled back 20/20.

They finally offered her the regular co-host spot on Good Morning America. She saw that as a demotion and said no (Diane Sawyer took the job, as a favor to the network and wound up spending 10 years) Frustrated, she asked ABC permission to seek out other offers, while still under contract. They agreed and CNN came to the table with a daily show to go up against Bill O'Reilly.

So she went to CNN and ratings for her show skyrocketed as she finished a strong second to O'Reilly. But her live interview showed off her weakness. She is an inept interviewer when it is live. Most of her interviewed at the networks were heavily edited and packaged. Here she would be flying by the seat of her pants.

Though the ratings were strong, CNN was unhappy with the ambulance chasing/tabloid stories Connie was pursuing. She countered that by saying she was just giving the network what they wanted. Her show was put hiatus during 2003 Iraq war. When she asked when the show will return, the network told her they decided to cancel it, and would reassign her somewhere else. She in turn just quit.

And here we are today, with Chung being retired since 2003 (with the exception of a short-lived stint on MSNBC)

Here's the Brando interview.

I remember her once doing a tv show about the rats in NYC. It was one of the grossest things I ever saw.

I only watched enough of r63 to see that it was edited by Wendy Wank.

heh heh

She was known as Connie "High Q Low IQ" Chung among insiders. She was liked by audience (the high Q rating) and you can figure out the rest.