Evidence receipt / evaluation
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: evaluation
25 Jun 2020 Acquired Oprah (Harpo Studios)
“He's super old-school, Edward Murrow style, like echo the news, and she's Oprah. That could work great but in this case, it doesn't work super great.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 25 Jun 2020
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Oprah (Harpo Studios)
Transcript context
…I’ve seen the Anchorman, I'm familiar. Yeah, exactly. If you've seen Anchorman you know exactly how this works. Jerry is Will Ferrell, basically. Oprah drops out of TSU and makes the move up to Baltimore. She gets there and probably predictably she and Jerry don't get along or see eye-to-eye on the style. He's super old-school, Edward Murrow style, like echo the news, and she's Oprah. That could work great but in this case, it doesn't work super great. A few months in she gets demoted. She has a multi-year contract with the station so they can't fire her, but she gets demoted from the co-anchor spot. She gets put in the slot as the weekend features reporter. I don't know much about TV but that doesn't sound good.…
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