What does everyone have against Julie Chen?

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Mrbozack

Tuesday, September 12, 2000 - 05:01 pm Click here to edit this post

Hey man, stop putting down Julie Chen. I think she's a fox. She's much more fun to watch than that dwarf surfer dude they had hosting survivor (his voice drove me crazy, I can do a great impersonation of him). And that blue leather outfit wardrobe had her in two or three weeks ago? Man oh man, what a babe. She even looks great walking.

Ken

Tuesday, September 12, 2000 - 05:13 pm Click here to edit this post

Geez, if we chose our tv characters on looks alone, Jordan might still be in the BB house.

Julie Chen is attractive, but she doesn't seem that poised in doing live discussions...she has some poor word choice. Also, her questions/discussions with the HG's just seem boring and pointless.

But she's not as annoying as the AOL lady who just seems sickening thrilled every time she gets to pull the most bland and inoffensive quotes from AOL to share with the public.

AOL lady: "Oh, we sure get a lot of comments about Brittany...here's one 'I like Brittany's hair'...wow. Here's another... 'I like Brittany' ... but some people on the internet disagree, like the person who wrote "I prefer George's hair."

Gimme a friggin' break! Why not post some meaningful internet insight, you chicken$&%#'s??!

Rmgreco

Tuesday, September 12, 2000 - 05:27 pm Click here to edit this post

I think people dislike her because she does a poor job and acts like a bxtch to the HG's alot.

Jade888

Tuesday, September 12, 2000 - 05:31 pm Click here to edit this post

Leave Julie alone when you have bad producers you have a bad show! Bottom line. She's an employee and not the execuitive producer, she ahs no control over the show...she is an employee, and that's it.

Julie we love you!

Deni_San

Tuesday, September 12, 2000 - 05:52 pm Click here to edit this post

Endemol and CBS made a whole string of bad choices when they slopped together this show. Julie Chen was one of them. I think in retrospect, Julie Chen made a poor career choice. News talent from broadcast news and news magazines are sighing in relief they were not anywhere nearby when that job came up. Julie Chen may have been frustrated at the progress of her career and thought this was her only chance to be in the spotlight and pitch hit for her network.
Julie like the houseguests were taken in by the high ratings from the European shows.

On top of that, her peers in the news media are pretty much calling for her to step down in her news position because she has lost credibility by doing BB.

She is stuck in a doomed assignment and it shows. The show is pretty much blaming the houseguests for ruining the show, and Julie might be feeling this way too.

Probst was pretty much relaxed and had fun with the whole survivor thing and on a lark found himself on a hit show. He was a host of Rock n'Roll Jeopardy so all he has to go up from there. He wasn't going for a big hosting gig hoping to climb up the ladder in the News Division, I think Julie was.

Poor Julie

Mrbozack

Tuesday, September 12, 2000 - 05:55 pm Click here to edit this post

Acts like a b!tch? When did she act like a b!tch?

For the record, I'm not a fan of the AOL lady either. She reminds me of a witch (her and Karen should get together for a photo shoot).

I fail to see how she's doing a bad job. Her only job is just to bump from segment to segment. She isn't there to interrogate the HGs. That's Big Brother's job. She tripped over a few words last week, but hey, it's live television. All broadcasters do that some times.

Mrbozack

Tuesday, September 12, 2000 - 06:05 pm Click here to edit this post

Deni_San, who exactly is calling for her to step down from her news position? Where do you get this information from? Can you at least direct us to a link to verify your claims?

Sure, Julie gambled that the show may be a hit and there may be a big pay off, but whatever, it won't happen like that. It won't nessassarily ruin her career as a journalist. It's not like she botched the facts of a news story or she cracked up on live television.

The only person who should be blamed for ruining the show is the division in charge of casting. They chose the "new-age"ish HGs. All this love stuff is driving me up the wall. I wish she was in the house with the HGs. That way I could see her six nights a week instead of only one.

Deni_San

Tuesday, September 12, 2000 - 08:09 pm Click here to edit this post

From Studio Briefing:
http://akas.imdb.com/StudioBrief/2000/20000623.html
News Chief Says Chen's Big Brother Date "An Experiment"

CBS News chief Andrew Heyward has defended his decision to allow Early Show anchor Julie Chen to host a weekly episode of the upcoming five-day-a-week reality series Big Brother Responding to criticism that Chen's appearances would further contribute to what 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney called a "deterioration of news standards," Heyward told today's (Friday) New York Daily News that he regarded the arrangement as "an experiment." He further suggested that he would not have allowed anchors Bryant Gumbel or Jane Clayson to host such a show. (In his column today (Friday), New York Post TV writer Adam Buckman observed, "You'd have to be about as old as Andy Rooney to remember a time when the line between news and entertainment wasn't blurred." In fact, in the late '50s and early '60s, John Charles Daly acted as anchor and news director of ABC while at the same time hosting the game show What's My Line? on CBS.)


Chen role has CBS in hot seat
July 24, 2000

BOB BETCHER
Press Journal TV/Radio Writer
http://www.tcpalm.com/whatsup/betcher/072485a.shtml

"CBS News, during a Sunday session earmarked to discuss coverage of the presidential campaign, found itself defending its decision to allow reporter Julie Chen to regularly participate in the entertainment show "Big Brother."

Some critics and others feel her presence as a news department employee taints the image of CBS News and further blurs the lines between news and entertainment. "

CBS sticks up for `Brother'
By CYNTHIA LITTLETON
The Hollywood Reporter

PASADENA, Calif. _ CBS executives were put on the defensive during the weekend as the nation's top TV critics grilled eye network brass about the propriety of the controversial summer reality series ``Big Brother.''

http://www.pioneerplanet.com/justgo/bpi/billboard/news/n072408.htm


Lots of Q, Not Much A

Washington Post
By Lisa de Moraes
Thursday, July 20, 2000; Page C07

"While NBC West Coast suits are out hustling to buy themselves a hit reality show, "Today" executive producer Jeff Zucker says they shouldn't count on nearly as much time on "Today" as "Survivor" is getting on CBS News's "The Early Show."


"We don't like to be seen as a promotional tool for NBC," he said.

For the first time, the entire "Today" lineup and Zucker made the pilgrimage to the press tour; they thought they were there to promote the show's expansion to three hours on Oct. 2. Instead, they mostly took questions about "Survivor" and whether "Early Show" news reader Julie Chen should be hosting the weekly live edition of CBS reality show "Big Brother."


Medialife Magazine
http://www.medialifemagazine.com/news2000/jul00/jul10/news20714.html
"...OK, not really. But lots of ink and air time have been devoted to the appointment of Julie Chen, news announcer on "Early," as host of "Brother."
Can you hear that crumbling sound? It's the so-called wall between news and entertainment.
Or so Andy Rooney, resident curmudgeon on "60 Minutes," would like you to think.
He and other CBS News executives have gone public with their concern over the "deterioration of news standards" due to Chen's hiring and the preponderance of reality-show stories on CBS news programs..."

CBS Harms Its Hard-News Image by Allowing Anchor to Host 'Big Brother' Reality Show
Saturday, June 24, 2000

BY ERIC MINK
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICE
http://www.sltrib.com/2000/jun/06242000/saturday/61522.htm

There are other reviews of the show which pretty much trash Julie Chen's performance to her clear departure from the news department. They defend putting Chen on the show, but wouldn't put any of their other anchors in that position. Other morning show anchor on another Network said it [Julie's decision] would be her choice.


She has went from being a journalist to a TV personality.

Alfredo

Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 06:32 pm Click here to edit this post

I think a good bit of this uproar from within the media is a spillover of their dislike of the show. Perhaps Julie doesn't have the objectivity of another CBS TV personality:

"If we could be one-hundredth as great as you and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been in the White House, we'd take it right now and walk away winners..."
--Dan Rather to President Bill Clinton via satellite during CBS's annual affiliate meeting, May 27, 1993.

She did seem uncomfortable at first, but she has gotten better along the way. Her post-banishment chat with Cassandra came across as very relaxed, and she even asked several of the questions I was wanting her to ask. Good job, Julie.

And, she's cute. I'd love to see her interview Colleen from Survivor for an hour or so.

Mckryan

Sunday, September 17, 2000 - 10:27 am Click here to edit this post

I have an idea...let's put Julie in with the houseguests for the last few days! Can she "work" unscripted? :-)

Jombie

Sunday, September 17, 2000 - 10:42 am Click here to edit this post

Probably not, but I did see her at the live taping yesterday, and I will say she is WAY less offensive in person than on TV...she was dressed to the nines, and seemed kinda cool...Maybe a good pick for Curtis...

Anyone else believe in love at first sight...???

Big_Al

Thursday, September 21, 2000 - 01:03 am Click here to edit this post

Julie was a FOX again tonight, and did a great job of bringing out the best and the worst (actually those are one and the same)in George. I was secretly hoping that the HGs would say "JULIE!!!" for the person to come into the house. Wouldn't that be a hoot??

Casper

Thursday, September 21, 2000 - 12:17 pm Click here to edit this post

Hey I agree...No matter what-Julie ROCKS!!!!

You did a "great job" Julie.

Shipwreck

Thursday, September 21, 2000 - 06:47 pm Click here to edit this post

julie is doing all right. letting her hair down and showing us her sense of humor helps. Maybe she's growing on me, but I am beginning to look forward to seeing her.