How did Barbara Walters get to be so successful? She was never pretty. Her voice is like chalk on a board. How did she go from "weather girl and women's assignments" to hardline interviewer?
She asked intelligent, personal questions, that both the subject and audience could relate to. Also, being a woman reporter at that time was unique and she disarmed her skeptical interviewees with her charm, intelligence and grace.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 10, 2019 4:24 PM |
She did her homework.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 10, 2019 4:32 PM |
OP: I guess she was just in the right place at the right rime. Nothing more.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 10, 2019 4:32 PM |
Much like stars in other areas, Barbara had "it." There were other pioneering women in TV news, but they just didn't have "it."
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 10, 2019 5:12 PM |
She was a great interviewer in her prime, and she was cutthroat and incredibly ambitious and ruthless behind the scenes.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 10, 2019 5:14 PM |
She knew how to kiss ass.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 10, 2019 5:17 PM |
She could suck the varnish off a Louisville Slugger.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 10, 2019 5:19 PM |
Didn't she "date" Roy Cohn for awhile?
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 10, 2019 7:20 PM |
She did what most career women did to get ahead pre-me too. She sucked a lot of dick.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 10, 2019 7:26 PM |
It's not where you start, it's where you finish. Today Barbara lives in the world of dementia
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 10, 2019 7:27 PM |
[quote]She sucked a lot of dick.
But there were prettier women. Who would want to waste their time getting it from her?
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 10, 2019 7:28 PM |
She fucked a married black senator.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 10, 2019 7:31 PM |
Because when someone compared herself to a tree, she knew to ask what kind of tree she would be.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 10, 2019 7:31 PM |
She was a Jewish girl with balls.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 10, 2019 7:32 PM |
People who lisp are better cocksuckers.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 10, 2019 7:48 PM |
[quote]There were other pioneering women in TV news, but they just didn't have "it."
I had "it," too. Penicillin took care of it.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 10, 2019 8:51 PM |
The Jewish Mafia.
Her father was a big Jewish mobster.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 10, 2019 8:56 PM |
She was tough, honey. Really tough.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 10, 2019 8:56 PM |
It's a-muh-muh-mazing that they would hire someone with a speech im-puh-puh-pediment to anchor the news once upon a time!
She muh-muh-must have been well connected.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 10, 2019 10:30 PM |
[quote] How did Barbara Walters get to be so successful? She was never pretty.
OP, do you really think this is the main reason a woman can be successful as a television journalist?
It's interesting this was the first criterion you chose.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 10, 2019 10:37 PM |
OP opened that way to create a misogynistic snark fest and we obliged.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 10, 2019 10:41 PM |
R20 Tom Brokaw also has a speech impediment.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 10, 2019 11:25 PM |
I always thought it would be cool if Barbara Walters and Hugh Downs lived long enough to introduce the year 2020. Maybe we can get a ventriloquist to operate Barbara next year.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 11, 2019 1:55 AM |
Hugh is still kicking at 98, so maybe he can do it solo. I'll be surprised if Barbara survives the year.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 21, 2019 5:58 PM |
She had some good-tasting pussy. Scrumptious!
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 21, 2019 6:16 PM |
Powerful men couldn’t resist when she bragged: ‘I give wrighteously good blowjobs. Willy I do!’
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 21, 2019 6:26 PM |
She generally sucked up and punched down, meaning she was generally deferential to people in power but extremely aggressive with unsympathetic interviewees. It's the kind of thing that makes you popular.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 21, 2019 6:53 PM |
R27: She overcame barriers, including the speech impediment, to become a very successful journalist.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 22, 2019 12:46 AM |
Barbra was mean to Tiffany about posing in Playboy. Fuck her.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 22, 2019 12:47 AM |
*sluurrrppp*
*swallows*
*wipes lips daintily*
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 22, 2019 12:54 AM |
Her father ran nightclubs (and probably knew people in the mob). She was ambitious and parlayed being "the Today girl" into something more serious--she was a woman at a time when networks were looking. She was no Pauline Frederick or Nancy Dickerson who actually did it the hard way, but she was in the right place at the right time.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 22, 2019 1:03 AM |
"probably knew people in the mob"?????
Dummy R32, Lou Walters was OWNED by the mob. How old are you, ten???
by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 22, 2019 1:07 AM |
You saw To Die For, op?
That’s how.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 22, 2019 1:50 AM |