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  • Local Atlanta reporter likes being "human piñata"

    12/01/2004 11:04:31 AM PST · by mhking · 15 replies · 1,236+ views
    Ramblings' Journal ^ | 12.1.04 | Michael King
    WGCL (CBS 46) reporter Fred Powers seems to like his role as "stunt reporter" for the perennial ratings bottom-dweller in the local news race 'round these parts.Powers has been set on fire, bitten by attack dogs, tasered, "rescued" from a building as part of a firefighter training exercise, and most recently, shot while wearing a bulletproof vest by local police as a part of a training exercise -- all in the line of duty, and usually as part of "sweeps month" stunts.No wonder he's being dubbed the "human piñata" by TV wags.Not coincidentally, his biggest stories tend to pop up...
  • SHARON REED'S BODY OF ART (Pathetic Sensationalism)

    11/15/2004 12:50:40 PM PST · by CT CONSERVATIVE · 70 replies · 21,728+ views
    What do you get when you combine a beautiful Sunday morning, a Downtown Cleveland venue, a world-famous photographer and over a thousand Clevelanders ... completely naked? How about art? It all happened recently, and 19 Action News anchor Sharon Reed was there. But Sharon didn't just report the story, she became part of it -- posing nude with over a thousand others for a groundbreaking and controversial photo that all of Cleveland will be talking about