CHANNEL 2'S ELEANORA ANDREWS....

[knowsnews]

OK, I've had enough of her.

Other than the fact that she can't write, she can't report and her stories have more holes in them than a golf course, her voice is intolerable.

Don't get me wrong. I always give new reporters the benefit of the doubt. But she reports like she's working for a high school station. Examples:

A car wreck in which the drivers were going at "a high rate of speed." Who, other than police, uses the term high rate of speed?

Two teenagers are shot to death in Atlanta. She shows video of a woman on a cell phone, with the voiceover "this woman finds out that two of her relatives have been shot." 45 seconds later, during the SAME voice track, she says police spoke to the woman and discovered she had no connection to the victims. But she let that voicetrack go on the air 4 times that morning!! Can't she change the voicetrack???

She covered a shooting in a "wooded area" (another police term that no one uses in conversation) and shot her standup in front of woods. She says "the crime scene is a wooded area about a half mile from here...and it looks a lot like the woods behind me." So, now she's showing us trees to give us an idea of what woods look like?

This morning, she's at WalMart, talking to last minute shoppers. She "stops" them as they leave, with their carts, from the checkout line. She gives the impression that she's stopping them at random. Well, if she is, then she's insane for doing that live. If she arranged it beforehand, then don't send them back to the checkout line and make it seems as if it's at random. Again, amateurish.

I'm open to anyone's comments. Convince me, please, that she deserves a full time job in major market television.

 

[geespot]

> OK, I've had enough of her.
>
> Other than the fact that she can't write, she can't report
> and her stories have more holes in them than a golf course,
> her voice is intolerable.

While your argument is valid, I would gladly staff my station with the likes of her over JaQuitta Williams any day. Take everything you just said, add some brain farts and a thorough misuse of the English language and that's JaQuitta in a nutshell.
I remember JaQuitta's first days on Channel 2 and remarked that it was a godsend when Elenora eventually appeared on air. I believe that Elenora presents an incredibly graceful and poised side to African American/Black reporters and I truly hope that she continues to do so. Time will give them both the experience that they need to correct these little quirks of theirs... Monica Kaufman wasn't magically hatched at the studio, you know?

 

[knowsnews]

> While your argument is valid, I would gladly staff my
> station with the likes of her over JaQuitta Williams any
> day. Take everything you just said, add some brain farts
> and a thorough misuse of the English language and that's
> JaQuitta in a nutshell.
> I remember JaQuitta's first days on Channel 2 and remarked
> that it was a godsend when Elenora eventually appeared on
> air. I believe that Elenora presents an incredibly graceful
> and poised side to African American/Black reporters and I
> truly hope that she continues to do so. Time will give them
> both the experience that they need to correct these little
> quirks of theirs... Monica Kaufman wasn't magically hatched
> at the studio, you know?
>

Since when is major market television the place for on the job training?

I agree that JaQuitta is another one that doesn't make the grade. My question is, why did they even hire these two in the first place?

Graceful and poised? This isn't a beauty pageant. It's supposed to be news.

 

[formeraa]

> > While your argument is valid, I would gladly staff my
> > station with the likes of her over JaQuitta Williams any
> > day. Take everything you just said, add some brain farts
> > and a thorough misuse of the English language and that's
> > JaQuitta in a nutshell.
> > I remember JaQuitta's first days on Channel 2 and
> remarked
> > that it was a godsend when Elenora eventually appeared on
> > air. I believe that Elenora presents an incredibly
> graceful
> > and poised side to African American/Black reporters and I
> > truly hope that she continues to do so. Time will give
> them
> > both the experience that they need to correct these little
>
> > quirks of theirs... Monica Kaufman wasn't magically
> hatched
> > at the studio, you know?
> >
>
> Since when is major market television the place for on the
> job training?
>
> I agree that JaQuitta is another one that doesn't make the
> grade. My question is, why did they even hire these two in
> the first place?
>
> Graceful and poised? This isn't a beauty pageant. It's
> supposed to be news.
>
Andrews worked in Columbus, Ohio -- not exactly a small market. I suppose all of the non-African American reporters in Atlanta are OUTSTANDING -- NOT!

 

[knowsnews]

> >
> Andrews worked in Columbus, Ohio -- not exactly a small
> market. I suppose all of the non-African American reporters
> in Atlanta are OUTSTANDING -- NOT!
>

Why does race matter? Where has anyone, before you, mentioned race? This is about ability. There are many very good reporters in Atlanta, and some who are not. But she has made no progress towards getting better in her time here.

So she came from Columbus. So what? I don't know what her work was like there, but I've seen in here. When you create news, contradict your own information in the span of a minute, and make your stories so convoluted that they can't be followed, then you're not ready for this market.