To wonder why Kay Burley is still employed?

[GloGirl]

Why? Who? Just who thinks it's a good idea? She's just a terrible presenter/interviewer.

www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/10/kay-burley-interview-with-alton-towers-chief-gets-more-than-1100-complaints

She's appalling.
Genuinely believes that what she does is 'incisive journalism' but actually it's not even remotely close to it.

Just watching the Malaysian video
"one of the women was shoved to the floor"

Was it you Kay?!!

My favourite quote of the awful awful cafe siege in Australia
"We are now x amount of hours in, I'm sure he will be experiencing a sugar crash"

Probably not, he's in a cafe.

how come there was nothing done about the throttling incident? if anyone at work did that to a colleague or customer there would be serious consequences!

Because that wasn't a colleague or a customer, that was a rival and she got her retaliation in first. She presumably made no complaint to the police because they'd have asked about her part in it.

News scrums get like that and photographers can be the worst.

I'd save your sympathy.

She's not that bright I don't think. I don't buy the 'she knows what she's doing' thing. I don't think she ever does. She is so unbelievably inappropriate and offensive at times. I agree that she's got some dirt on someone high up. There's Sky's well known love of sledgehammer news delivery - and then there's La Burley.

I think the difference between Kay Burley some other seemingly ruthless broadcasters, is that she is only doing it for attention and not because she cares.

Her desperation for individual injuries of those poor people involved in the accident with really vulgar.

We are now x amount of hours in, I'm sure he will be experiencing a sugar crash

How did I miss that? Fucking brilliant. Thank you damn.

There's another film of the Malaysian scrum where she drops her phone and breathlessly commands an underling to pick it up.

Yeah, like you'd bend down to pick something up. In that kind of stampede, once you go down, there's no getting up.

The paramedics remove your broken and bloodied corpse later and hope there's a big toe left that they can tie an ID tag to.

The worst of Kay Burley is just jaw dropping!!!

She's quite simply vile & also shit at her job, am at a complete loss as to why exactly she is still employed...

limited I am ashamed (given the awful situation) to say that quote still makes me smile.

There was another one where she told a group of primary school children they wouldn't be alive for the next solar eclipse. Whilst factually correct its slightly inappropriate, their little faces just dropped.

Lord, It's worse than I thought.

Sky News - aaaargh. It's beyond parody

But she's not shit at her job. She gives her employers what they want.

With the exception of Eamonn Holmes and Adam Boulton and Burley, Sky News presenters are bland.

I mourn the passing of the wonderful but I hear he's enjoying retirement.

" her question to the wife of serial killer about their sex life being to blame is just"

I'm still a bit stunned by that. How does she not lose her job?

Without going into specifics, I have done some work with Sky News and they have some exceptionally good journalists, but I have never had anything to do with her. She seems to be an idiot and there for the comedy.

As for the throttling thing, not sure what happened there, but I will say the bruise she was sporting did not look like a camera had just clipped her, it looked like something had been swung at her, albeit without loads of force. So not sure what really happened there but the photo might not tell the whole story.

Ignoring that, though, I always feel grim apprehension when she is about to interview, but you have to wonder whether she is all that bad for their figures - she makes strangely compelling car crash tv.

That worst of video is unbelievable.
'Sack Kay Burley, watch the BBC'.

I am not sure a TV presenter who is unwatchable is good at their job.

I loved that little chant too. "He seems to have a problem with Rupert".

Eamonn Holmes is dreadful.

I find her watchable SparklingBrook. That's not the same as finding her likeable or even a good journalist. I suspect the bosses at Sky News think the same.

But then lots of questions I consider to be not only good journalism, but completely unremarkable, provoke conniptions on MN.

No one has to watch Kay Burley.

Eamon Holmes is crap and I can't abide the simpering women with him who are dressed like they're going to a posh restaurant.

She's just awful.
What she did during the April jones investigation was sickening . Watched the video can't believe I didn't know that she'd asked the ex of the serial killer that question me and oh sat here agog at that. She needs to be sacked but looking at the catalogue of unprofessional behaviour (and morally wrong behaviour) that she's got away with so far I'm struggling to think of what she'd need to do to actually lose her job.

Eamonn Holmes is the opposite of dreadful. He's a very skilled interviewer, presenter and host.

I've worked with him as a pundit on Sky Sunrise. I know what I'm talking about, but my job isn't live TV news so I'm nervous and prone to gabbling and losing my drift.

He's so well-researched, switched-on, confident, relaxed and friendly that he makes guests look really good.

All it took was him saying: 'I love these stories Limited. Great choice. I'm going to ask you this and this and this. Okay? Here we go.'

He might have not cared if I looked good; he just wanted his show to look good. It works.

But if he wants to make people uncomfortable, he can do it too.

It's the same attention to detail and a deceptively avuncular day time chat show persona.

It catches people out all the time. If I was a government minister or a shifty business leader not on top of my brief I wouldn't dare go on there.

Yet these arrogant fools do it all the time.

I don't watch KB or EH now. I don't like feeling uncomfortable and cringing while watching TV wondering what awful thing the presenter will say next and feeling sorry for the general public.

Yes, he does like to flirt with the girlies around him. It's not particularly edifying.

Occasionally I see him with Ruth on This Morning and he seems bored and dad-like and I often disagree with his views.

But sorry, he's still a bloody good interviewer that I wouldn't want to tangle with if I was a politician.

Tbf I don't watch sky news full stop. I'm certainly no fan of Rupert M