Duh - Deborah Norville To Anchor From Home w/ Ankle Bracelet On

[otohara]

NEW YORK - Now HERE'S a good excuse for working at home. Deborah Norville will anchor Monday's program of "Inside Edition" from her home on Long Island, N.Y., to try to give viewers a taste of what Martha Stewart (news - web sites)'s home confinement is like.

Norville will be fitted with the same type of ankle bracelet that is being used to monitor Stewart's location now that she has been released from prison.

Over a 24-hour period, Norville will keep a record of everything she does and report on what the experience is like, the show said.

"Inside Edition," a syndicated newsmagazine, airs weeknights.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=529&ncid=529&e=13&u=/ap/20050306/ap_en_tv/people_norville

I don't know how she will do this with a straight face.

[trotsky]

1. You have GOT to be kidding me.

This passes for news?

Wait, I really can't consider myself all that surprised. Not with today's media.

[aden_nak]

2. What the fuck? When I stay home all day, I call that "Sunday".

[Skidmore]

3. Why doesn't she just call in sick like the rest of us? nt

[WI_DEM]

4. dum-de-dum-dum-dumbdumb.

[amazona]

5. oh for cryin' out loud

How fake can you get. Why don't they just ask Martha what it is like or any number of REAL prisoners who are or who have been under house arrest?

I don't care about what somebody playing house thinks about it.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[BlueEyedSon]

6. Seems to me Stewart needs a tap on her phone to keep from being a

repeat offender, not house arrest.

[atommom]

7. Sounds like a good excuse to sit at home with my feet up!

Where can I get one of these jobs?

[Richardo]

8. In the meantime, Martha's going into Manhattan today...

...ankle bracelet and all.

They must not have told Deborah. :evilgrin:

Norville: The original 'Bubble headed bleach blonde' referred to in "Dirty Laundry".

[NoPasaran]

I'd rather she do it naked in a cage

Subject to arbitrary beatings and humiliation to give viewers a taste of what it's like to be confined at Guantanamo Bay.

[katinmn]

9. This is what MSM calls "investigative journalism"

Maybe people will finally quit criticizing them for their lack of depth.

[theboss]

30. In fairness, it's Inside Edition

The show usually runs features on Lindsay Lohan's tits and J-Lo's ass. This is a step up.

[katinmn]

31. LOL! Have to agree with you on that

[Blue_Roses]

10. this is so ridiculous

When the hell is Ken Lay going to jail.

[Canuckistanian]

14. He's already confined himself to his yacht

It part of the new GOP Corporate Rehabilitation Access Program, or C.R.A.P.

[Stirk]

11. That's the stupidest thing I've heard.

She's going to spend 24 hours at home, document every boring minute of it, and then assail her viewers with the details?

Maybe Paula Zahn can do an expose of what it's like to have a dental check-up next week.

[bleedingheart]

12. Bwhahahahahahaha - A Bad Flu will keep you inside for 72 hours

yet this dipshit "journalist" is going to stay put in her house for 24 hours as if that is something so out of the ordinary?

Holy Moley...my croatian grandmother spent weeks on end tethered to her kitchen and garden and tending to her six kids...and no one documented the fact that she didn't leave her house/yard...

[Guckert]

13. If she sticks her head in a lit oven for 45 minutes at 425 i would watch.

[movie_girl99]

33. that made me laugh out loud

thanks, i needed that. BTW welcome to DU:hi:

[Skidmore]

15. This kinda deserves a second post--but I think a very public

campaign of ridicule has been earned by both the program and Ms. Norville. What say we get busy on it? Let's mock the media for its blatant ridiculousness.

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. OMG. How pathetic are these people?

Have they no shame? No dignity?

[Chef]

17. Matt Lauer

Next week, Matt Lauer is going to sleep with a 12 year boy to give viewers a taste of what Michael Jackson is going through. Who asked these people to run these stories 24/7? It must be easier than learning the truth about things that really impact our real lives.

[paineinthearse]

18. Kinky

"Just like a penguin in bondage, boy" - Zappa.

[UdoKier]

19. Oh, My god, the pooor things.

I don't know who is suffering more, Norville, in her 4000 sq ft Central Park West Penthouse, or Stewart in her sprawling Mansion. I'll be sending them both my prayers.

[shadowknows69]

20. I'm ready for the end of the world

just so there's some interesting news on.

[anarchy1999]

21. Well now, I'm impressed. "REAL JOURNALISM" brought to us by

who? Deborah Norville, Inside Edition? Who really gives a shit!?

Hey DU'ers step up, how many here have had to wear one or had to suffer through a year or two of blowing into a machine to start your car and continue driving it as it beeped at you every 10 to 20 minutes. I confess, DWI, Collin Co., year, 1996.

I don't have a lot of sympathy left for Martha, I do beleive she got the royal shaft, where again is Kenny Lay?

[whatelseisnew]

22. I can hear her now...

You don't realise how confining it is until you go through it... (leading to)
It makes me appreciate the freedom we enjoy in this great country of ours.

[Ezlivin]

23. Can we fasten an anchor to Ms. Norville?

Perhaps she could fathom that.

Yeah, bad pun, I know. :)

[kittenpants]

24. sorry I have nothing new to say, but I just had to add my OMG to the list

[peekaloo]

25. Too bad they don't use muzzle monitors.

[hatrack]

29. Ball gags would be more suitable in a case like this

Now if somebody would just bring the Gimp out of Deborah Norville's back room, I'd tune in for that.

Frickin' unbelievable.

[TOOLZ]

26. Can we send Deborah Norville to prison for 24 hrs and see that? n/t

[lasttrip]

27. next she should volunteer to serve in the infantry

so americans can really see the crap these kids in Iraq face everyday.

[Cleita]

28. Shouldn't she spend six months in jail first to get a real feeling

for the experience? Glad to see she's reporting on the absurd. Maybe a real journalist will try to get an interview with Sgrena about her ordeal and attempted assassination. Of course it would have to be for the BBC or CDC because it would never be aired on the Goebbels News Networks of America

[Downtown Hound]

32. Actually, she did spend five days in jail awhile back

and broadcast it all on Inside Edition. It was a very popular topic, so it looks like she's trying to replicate the experience. Get some ratings.

[Cleita]

34. Did she just go in as a journalist or an inmate. I'll bet there is a big

difference between what the journalist gets to experience and see and what the inmate gets to experience and see,

[Downtown Hound]

35. A journalist

Yeah, there's a huge difference. They supposedly tried to make it look like she wasn't being treated differently than the other inmates, but even just the presence of cameras is going to seriously affect the flow of things in there. It was a silly thing. It was in one of those really "tough on crime" jails with a sheriff that thinks he's God running it, and she ended up giving him a lot of publicity and boosting his popularity. The thing was, several years after it aired, the sheriff was brought down for misusing his funds and forced to resign. A bunch of his officers were convicted of dealing drugs in jail as well. If she was a true investigative journalist, she would have maybe found some of those things out. Instead, all she really did was give him a public relations bonanza.