Holly Hunter Real-life “Broadcast News” Disaster
July 26, 2007A press junket, where dozens of ’journalists’ (often flown in from Podunk by a studio or network) get three minutes with a star, is one of the lowest forms of pack journalism. Usually the problem is with the talent, who is patronizing, nasty, robotic, chemically-enhanced or like Paula Abdul, ‘just sleepy’.
But this clip of a hardworking Holly Hunter, once the point of triangle, trying to help a baffled, bumbling blonde ‘journalist’ shows that as Shakespeare put it, “The fault lies not in the stars, but in ourselves.”