Monday, April 02, 2012

KUSA | On the bright side, we have this rhyme

"Now her hip and her lip are much better, and she'll return to the show Monday morning."

-- Denver's KUSA, in a story today announcing anchor Kyle Dyer is returning to work after receiving 70 stitches to her upper lip, lower lip and nose, following a severe dog bite received during a live on-air segment. Dyer also had "previously scheduled surgery on her hip."

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  3. Jim,

    You headline is insensitive and condescending. You don't know anything about her, or anything about what she went through.

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  5. BWAHAHAHA.

    Get over yourselves.

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  6. 10:32 My sentiments exactly! The world has become overly sensitive and pussified to no end.

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  7. 9:13 I know that her injuries were very serious.

    My headline was meant to fit the story's odd and I would think unecessary disclosure about her hip surgery. Why did viewers need that information?

    It's as though that detail was included to make the lip-and-hip rhyme work.

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  12. Jim, 9:13 here. She was world-wide news, and her hip surgery was made public to explain why she was going back in the hospital...which a lot of her viewers were worried about. She wasn't thrilled about disclosing it, but her life became an open book. I think you were a little guilty of a print guy doing some tv stereotyping. They win Peabody Awards at that station, and she's as first class an act as you'd ever hope to meet. Your headline seemed a trite way to handle a serious story about a serious woman. That fact that they used some clever prose seems pretty inconsequential.

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