Dataloungers, please educate me on Connie Chung

What a boring object of obsession. You need to get out more.

"Are there any of her news broadcasts worth checking out?"

OP, You Are Not to Bother!

One of the faces of 80s broadcast news. Along with her, Barbra Walters, Geraldo, etc. they epitomized the pretentious greediness of the decade.

She once did an hour long special report on the rats in NYC. It was horrifying and I was unable to watch the whole thing.

Connie was a rising star from the 80's into the 90's. She added (perhaps unintentionally) some tabloid fare to TV journalism in the 90's before it became trendy. But her career as a serious journalist/anchorwoman was damaged and she was ultimately sidelined by CBS into oblivion.

I remember seeing Connie Chung as a local anchor when I was visiting California years ago. I recall thinking, “This woman is going places.”

Two years later, she went national.

R1 = Maury Povich

She got Newt Gingrich's mother to say that he thought Hillary Clinton was a bitch.

Connie was one of Letterman's regular guests back in the 80s. They had a good onscreen rapport.

In the 90s, she and husband Maury Povich talked publicly about their desire to conceive, but they never succeeded. Maury responded by sublimating his paternal obsession, shifting the focus of his daytime talk-show to low-rent paternity scandals.

Connie's last major scoop was her Prime Time Live Gary Condit interview in August 2001. The story (congressional sex/murder investigation scandal) went from months of heavy coverage to the back page after the September 11 attacks.

Always pleasant and professional.

Tonya Harding walked out in the middle of a televised interview with Connie.

Connie's never recovered from it.

I fucking love Connie. This entire video is a gem.

i remember an excruciating interview on a short lived CNN stint with Rod Stewart where he was shilling his first cd pilfering the great american songbook / and they ended up dancing to a track before the break / the memory still makes me shudder

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she called Hillary a bitch and it ended her career.

Oh my, this brings back memories. During the 1980s/90s, when Chung was an news anchor, my grandfather was strangely into her. He was a veteran of the Korean War and WWII. I always found his interest in her a bit odd. She was the sort of woman a lot of people's grandfathers were strangely obsessed with for obscure reasons.

Connie is from the Washington suburbs. I remember her covering the Nixon argument before the Supreme Court. I and some friends camped out all night to get seats and as the sun was rising there was Connie there to interview us looking perfect and sounding chipper and after sleeping on the wet grass overnight we looked like slobs and could barely grunt an answer. But we got in. Connie was great.

She didn’t call Hillary a bitch, r15. She persuaded Newt Gingrich’s mother to disclose he thought that. See r8.

She was supposedly the reporter that Oliver Stone gave hallucinogens to in El Salvador. She started tripping while on the air.

Check out all her appearances on Late Night with David Letterman in the '80s. She was an amazing guest and Letterman used to flirt with her cutely.

Dave and Connie spend the day together.

She was a classically trained songstress that got very few chances to showcase her god given talent

That old bitch, she doesn't stand by her husband like I did.

Me want Maury

I loved her recording of "La Choy Makes Chinese Food...Swing American!"

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[quote]She once did an hour long special report on the rats in NYC.

Wasn't it unethical of her to do a report on her husband?

The Connie Ka-Chung

NBC put Connie Chung on the fast track to being their star female anchor after Jessica Savitch started to burn out. And then Savitch died.

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My parents went to LA in early 1980 and brought me back a copy of Los Angeles Magazine which had a feature on LA’s most eligible singles or something like that. KNXT anchor Connie Chung was featured as was Beverly D’Angeleo. My first time seeing her and she went to NBC a couple years later.

You better stop it, Connie Chung!

She married that piece of racist piece of human garbage, Maury Povich. I know it's been referred to several times but I just had to get that off my chest.

As mentioned, she was the local CBS anchor in LA and did a great job. Well liked by the staff and her ratings were great. Also suffered a lot of racism. One sportscaster was fired after he told her on air, "let's talk after you do the laundry."

She flew the fake patriotic flag when telling then 20-year citizen Martina Navratilova, regarding US politics, to either "love it or leave it." Fuck that noise.

When Howard Stern was on WNBC, he did a song parody about Jane Pauley, making fun of her for returning to work after having her child. (Honestly)

It was to the tune of Hey Mickey. It started out "Jane Pauley you're a swine..." So crazy. The lyrics of the song implored her to leave her job and take care of her kids. One lyric went:

"Let Connie Chung, let man do it. Let Charlie Chan do it."

I always thought her career tanked when/because she married cheeseball Maury.

It seemed to me that a lot of Connie's "brand" was her happy marriage to the vastly journalistically inferior Maury Povich, and when it came out that not only was he cheating on her with a co-worker, it had been a long-term affair with a much younger producer on staff. She seemed to recede from the public eye, likely because she did not want to talk about Maury's betrayal.

They are still married. It reminds me of when Frank Gifford cheated on Kathy Lee.

[quote]when Frank Gifford cheated on Kathy Lee.

Good god, who could blame him? Probably did it just to get away from her for an hour once a week.

She's awful. The worst. I hate her!!!

R16 He was trying to tell you that you have cousins in South Korea.

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I love her. She doesn't take herself seriously. She's got brains, a fun sense of humour and she's lovely. The whole package.

Maury's dad's name was Shirley! His wife was named Ethyl.

Connie was known as high-Q, low IQ Connie. The Q was a popularity rating used by tv networks. IQ is obvious. She was a nitwit, but people liked her.

Hey OP, EDUCATE YOURSELF.

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