Top 20 Reporters Who RUINED Their Career in One Moment
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
- It can take a lifetime to build a career and a single moment to destroy it. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re looking at infamous times a news or sports reporter wrecked their career and the repercussions they faced. Our countdown of reporters who ruined their careers in one moment includes Trent Evans, Dan Rather, Brian Williams, Lydia Cumming, Megyn Kelly, and more! Which reporter is the most beloved of all time? Walter Cronkite? Ann Curry? Trevor McDonald? Or someone else? Let us know below!
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@@_King.Cinephile_ Not even close
@@_King.Cinephile_loser
@@_King.Cinephile_ doesn't matter if you are
@@StanHalen1936 Name calling not needed
Imagine being fired but given 25m for leaving? Would you care at all?!?
As extravagantly as they live, 25m wouldn’t last long.
@@gabe_2544 if you couldn't adjust your lifestyle, invest, and open your own business with 25mil then your truly lost and pathetic
In one word...No.
Heck no 🙂
@@gabe_2544 exactly. I mean, us poor people wouldn't mind AT ALL.
My favorite part of the AJ Clemente thing has always been him saying, "I'm used to, you know, being from the east coast." 😆
Where the most cordial greeting is "fuckin shit, look at this guy!" 😂
what does this even mean?! haha
😹😹👌🏽
😅😅😅
Looks like the real problem was that he wasn't ready; saying some naughty words may have thrown him off, but he looked like a deer in the headlights from the get-go. It's not as easy as it looks, folks....
A lot of these were less like one moment and more like years of systematic abuse and harrassment.
The Australian reporter involved in the DUI crash? Sounds like that happened long after he got out of the news business
@@N1ghtxD4y huh? I meant all the ones who were fired for multiple instances of harrassment, abuse and/or misogyny like Charlie Rose or Bill OReilly.
The network execs who knew all about and took no action against Rose and Laurer's abuse for years should have been fired.
I feel like they usually snitch for immunity & always get away with it smh
Ruined their careers in one moment? Half of these involved years of misbehavior
Dan Rather and Charlie Rose were the kind of cases that hurt. They garnered an air of trust for years and just like that, they ruined it.
To me it was Brian Williams, he also destroyed his career in seconds, all that showing off cost him dearly.
DAN RATHER
told the TRUTH
now imagine the dirt that
he could've got on
TRUMP
They were boring
@andrewblanchard2398 no he did not tell the truth. He was a lazy fool. Didn't report accurately. Idiot.
So as a reporter you should stay away from
-Swearing
-Misogyny
-Racism
-Sexual misconduct
-Doctored reporting
-Using the medias resources for personal gains
Sounds like it should be pretty easy to do.
Pretty easy a child might do it too!
you forgot LYING, having drug or alcohol problems. Fumbling your words on air. and about 50 other things… It might seem “easy“ from where you’re sitting? But I assure you it’s not… The pressure and competition is insurmountable. Which is why that one reporter in Queensland went off the rails… Literally. 😢
@@ckotcher1 No job is easy!
don't forget drinking and driving, don't do that.
In other words, be professional at all times...
Who else sees the irony in Matt Lauer interviewing Dan Rather and then Bill O'Reilly? I wonder if he was sweating bullets in those moments wondering when HIS time to get busted would come.
All of them probably guilty of misconduct. What people should ask is why it came out? Who did they piss off to were their time was up?
He was too arrogant to care.
Walter Cronkite was one of the best journalists. He had the best characteristic compared to the journalists these days. Integrity. Rest in Peace.
That clip of Bill O'Reilly getting interviewed by Matt Lauer 😬
And Dan Rather.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@user-mn8rg6he4y and Dan by Piers. It's scummery all the way down
I think reporters who faked stories should be included. The NYT reporter, Jayson Blair, etc.
"child focused media"????? Ya, that is a nice way to put it!
Way to nice.
why did they add the photo of a slain delta force soldier during that part
If I got $25 million after being fired I'd go happily and repeat Nikki Haley still isn't in her prime.
possession of "indecent child-focused media"
FFS, Carlin would have a field day
Child pornography. That's what is.
The word would imply that it is sex when it is in fact 100% always rape. Child sex abuse material is what it is. "Child" followed by that word is disgusting
I wish we held politicians and judges to the same standard as reporters.
I imagine Ivory Hecker's cameraman was thinking "well... it's been nice working with you..."
Why didn’t that Rick Sanchez just use his portal gun to find a new universe?
The portal gun was reset
I don't know, why do you think Professor Genki?
Probably because he's fictional and that show sucks
That's a 10
@kyleyoung5063 funny that you still found the time to comment tho hahahaha you are just mad you aren't funny
The reporter who goes to report on flooding with ballerinas... Sheer idiocy.
I hear Rick Sanchez and I think of Rick from Rick and Morty 😂
That fanbase is cancerous
Yeah, all the uneducated kids do. Smart people think of the guy that character is named after 😂
😂😂😂
Everybody is replaceable 🤪😵💫
Most beloved reporter in my 64 yrs., Peter Jennings and Walter Cronkite.
Walter Cronkite hands down was the best.
To my previous statement about making mistakes, there is a difference between that and being a repeat offender.
I never particularly liked Megyn Kelly, but I did respect her dauntless interview with Trump, and firing her for expressing an opinion about Halloween makeup was just absurd. What is this, North Korea? She wasn’t declaring her admiration for Al Jolson and Jim Crow laws. I think the network had regrets about hiring her rather spontaneously to begin with, and felt uneasy regarding controversial remarks she had made, but were too embarrassed to admit she was a poor fit for their corporate culture.
"And there's a deep drive by Castellanos" has become a joke for when someone does something bad lol
Wasn't Steltzer fired? He was in a few clips announcing the firing of the others.
16:35. Bill O'Reilly interviewed by Matt Lauer😂😅😂😂😆😆.
IKR?! The irony of it all! What is Lauer doing now? He treated Anne Curry horribly.
Connie Chung is another one. She was fired from CBS for making several stupid mistakes during interviews. She is married to so-called former journalist Maury "You are the father!" Povich. I'm not sure which is worse.
They've been married for over 40 years so it can't be that bad.
Didn't she make her bones with stories about breast implants causing huge numbers of women to die of cancer . . . except that no women died of cancer caused by breast implants?
Sounds like you’re still hurt about 😢😢😢
Except that women HAVE died of cancer caused by breast implants. Maybe not thousands, but there are cases. The cancer is called breast implant associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma.
@@jamiethal1319 This is not what Connie Chung was on about at that time. And I wrote "huge numbers". People have gone outside and had a helicopter crash on them, but I don't typically advise against going outside to avoid this.
A quick search shows that what you describe is rare at best. Looks a little vague honestly. And even by the numbers presented, maybe 36 people died in 20 years? Chung was into some very bad 'science' and spewing misinformation.
Basically, this woman had implants and got cancer - therefore the implant caused the cancer. But it turned out that when you looked at the data, that women who didn't have implants got cancer at the same rate statistically speaking. When presented with these statistics, they protested with things like "A woman is not a statistic, she's a human being" and other such nonsense.
still remember when people didn't freak out about people dressing up on "Halloween".
What's interesting is that people weren't being canceled for Halloween costumes before the movie White Chicks. 🤔 Almost like the Wayans Brothers hit a nerve, and now everyone has to be stopped. Lol
Glad she was still paid out. Seems like she was fired because of complaints. Not her actual words. She didn’t even do black face herself. That’s a joke. I would’ve sued the people who made me lose my job with their pathetic immaturity.
HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of people here in Asia use skin-whitening creams and drugs. Should they all be cancelled for "white-face"?
Should white folks who lie in the sun be cancelled?
People freak out over nothing.
@@kirstybrown1185 Agreed. Most people would agree that the only mistake she made was letting them force an apology out of her over it. It was ridiculous.
Black face is wrong but dressing up as a black person is fine. Think it shows admiration for that person. Even if the person is doing it for parody it's not that serious. People really need to relax.
I agree with this, but I would have added TJ Holmes and Rosie O’Donnell.
They fire news reporters for blowing their nose these days! Very brutal business
My favorite is Floyd Cammombere on SCTV News
RIP Count Floyd.
WTNH anchor Desiree Fontaine shoplifted a little more than one-hundred dollars worth of merchandise from a store and had to leave her job. Nobody has seen or heard from her since.
I just did a check ____she went ludite. No social media, press, nothing. Can't find new images of her anywhere since 2010. Personally, I hope she's happy, healthy and is lucky enough to never be in the public eye again.
Connie Chung blabbed something that Hillary Clinton told her in confidence and I believe that tanked Connie's career.
Probably told it to her while she was cleaning her rug
Well over half the list are arguably doing better now than they were on a major network.
AND the dude who swore his first day and was fired... he did not even have a career to ruin yet.
Case in point... Tucker Carlson, who is making bank since he left Fox.
Brian Williams saying it was his choice?
Just one more "misstatements " he made
They're all sorry.....That they got caught
“Rick Sanchez” Lubba Wubba Dubb Dubb!
Don Lemon-major cringe.
Why? The people that jump all over this incident always make sure to edit out the rest of the piece, that they were talking about Haley criticizing the age of others.
Doesnt he love himself so much
Honorable mention: Mike Davis from 10TV Columbus
No one was happier to find out don lemon was fired than me. I can't stand that guy but there's nothing wrong with what he said you don't think women feel the same way about men???
A.J. shouldn't have been fired. He was young, inexperienced and scared to death on his first day. Sure he shouldn't have uttered those curse words, but he really didn't know when the cameras start rolling. Poor guy!
The best thing about his situation,he faced it accepted it and moved on!
I couldnt avoid but smiling after hearing what he decided to do after being fired! His opportunity on TV might be over but as the good ol' saying goes "Life finds a way"
No one dares to make a mistake.
That's true, but we're taught in classrooms and mock studios, "as soon as you put that lav on, watch what you say"
😂 Broke the rules and got fired for it. Dude had no business being on TV, especially if his fall back plan was being a fucking bartender. 😂
Such an ignorant comment!
I have worked in logistics for 20 years and talk to truck drivers that will regularly cuss me out on a daily basis, but I am still professional in the way I talk to them.
A.J. was working in and industry where none of this happens, and still acted like a clown! He had no reason to cuss, or act a fool, but did.
He is unprofessional and his firing was warranted.
HE GOT HIRED TO BE PROFESSIONAL! THAT IS HIS JOB! HE IS PAID TO BE AN ORATOR! I am paid to be that as well, and in fact, have more responsibility... to the point I would say that I am a communication specialist, organizer, curator, and manager, and I still work at a MUCH lower rate than he was paid!.......HE DESERVED TO BE FIRED!
He acted unprofessionally, and his firing was warranted.
I have no idea why people try to make excuses for other peoples ignorance for their inability to do the simple task that they were hired for!
Great informative video
Said the Watch Mojo employee.
@@fastinbulvis2223agreed. Not really that informative if you follow basic news. These videos are more for “oh shit. I forgot that happened 15 years ago!”
@@jshumphress13 Thanks for your response. Great comment!
I was truly angered following Charlie Rose being fired from CBS Mornings because soon afterward Gayle King was given all the control and power she desired to flagrantly LIE and make FALSE innuendos to us program devotees.
I loved how Charlie used to cut-her-off at the knees for doing so while he was there. Have never watched any CBS news since.
2:47 who are these?
Walter Cronkite, Bob Shieffer, Tim Russert, Ann Curry. There are many good journalists, including some on that list. Unfortunately errors in judgment cost them their jobs
I love how Brian Williams made it known that it was his choice to leave NBC news.
Too many people on this list only got fired/lost their job because what they said was heard by the public.
Walter Cronkite was the best of them all.
@8:45 there is a clip online of charlie rose discussing the metoo movement. and you can see in real time, charlie rose realizing he is next.
Sadly, the casting couch is not a purely 1950s Hollywood phenomenon, and the culture of such pressure wasn't limited to the onscreen talent, as not just Weinstein, but also such as Les Moonves at CBS demonstrated.
Walter Cronkite was the most beloved anchor. Cronkite is known for his departing catchphrase, "And that is the way it is. Goodnight!"
I still watch Ivory Hecker every week on UA-cam! Her career isn't over at all. She's just not part of the fake-news propaganda machine anymore. She's a REAL journalist who actually investigates things and seeks the truth.
Honestly, Megyn Kelly just kept digging her grave with that argument.
But everything he said was true.
How? Cause a lot of the people I hear offended by that kinda stuff are those who say are "allies" of... well everything and everybody. The people who get offended on behalf of others, whether there was insult or not.
Idk. I feel like the worst thing was the outrageous hair. Her fro coulda been smaller😂😂😂😂 at least she didn’t do blackface. People want their panties in a bunch so bad.
@@Justhere4videosthe prime minister of Canada wasn't just doing black face he blacked up his entire body , yet Kelly is in the wrong while the celebrities and politicians are all ok
I don’t like that. I don’t agree with black face, no need for it but that conversation was no different to a black person saying all white people are racist. Yet they wouldn’t be cancelled for that. This was an embarrassing double standard. There are more racist black people on air than her comment made her. Telling white people they are expected to be better is racist on both sides. Imagine telling non whites you don’t expect much from them. 🤭
Walter Cronkite's honest opinion comment on the war in Vietnam being a lost cause cemented him as the greatest in my book. No primetime nightly news anchor since then has ever had the guts to go off script and call it like it is on an issue so big. Legend.
Every time I see Meghan Kelly I think of how SURE she is that Santa is white 🤣😭
What race do you think Santa is?
Why wouldn't he be? He's European.
@@twrampage Eastern European.
It's Good To Be Santa! :)
@@twrampage santa originated from st nicholas, a 4th-century greek bishop who lived in what is now modern-day turkey. are turks "european"? and who says all europeans are white?
Why is it that we are now told that someone did "something bad", but the reporters don't tell us what was said/done in case it reflects badly on them? We used to have asterisks in place when examples were given.
I think that Barbara Walter’s and Diane Sawyer were pretty influential.
It's hard to give a thumbs-up 'like' to tragic and heartbreaking stories.
Love it when Matt Lauer interviews Bill O’Reilly.
12:19: all this going on while some guy is fixing the ac, lol what?
Man has a job to do and schedule to keep. If her soapbox isn't causing the problem then she can stand on it all she wants.
You might wanna look into Frank Sommerville. He was a well known local anchor in the San Francisco Bay Area. Poor dude basically became an alcoholic. There were two instances where he was slurring his words on air and it was clear he was drunk. The network didn't renew his contract. Since then he's been involved in a drunk driving crash and violating parole by having drunken disputes with family. It's a sad case.
“Matt Lauer can suck it!”
- Dr. Rick Marshall.
Tolley Carr in nc should be on this list
The fact that Connie Chung isn’t on this list makes me feel ancient.
Imagine destroying your career for PROJECT VERITAS 😂😂😂
Imo, Megyn Kelly said nothing wrong, and firing her was bs.
Why does Tucker Carlson always look like he’s either fighting a fart or that he just let it go.
That's his "investigative" look.
@@jopalm3649 i dunno. that look to me says he has to fart but doesnt want to do it on camera.
You checking out dudes or just jealous of Tucker 😂😂
@@ZomegJ the correct answer is both
@@ZomegJ both are no
16:34 Matt Lauer interviewing Bill O’Reily about sexual misconduct. lol
I don’t think 19 counts as he was not a reporter at the time.
You'd better make a new list soon everyone else on msnbc and cnn is going down
What do you think about shows like Would I lie to you or Have I Got News for You? I fell in love with these shows traveling to Scotland 6 times a year.
I seems pretty difficult to be a decent person.
How could you guys have missed Tex Antoine?
"Mel-bun", not MelbouRne".
Jason Bun- the spy whose cheeks are suffering from amnesia…
RIP To All The Dead 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
Walter Cronkite by far!
I'm suprised that BBC news reporter Huw Edwards didn't make this list.
No, dude, it was never just “a word”!!
Slurs have ALWAYS been hurtful to the people affected, but you just got away with saying those slurs back then!
People have finally now started to stand up for what is right, and you don’t have carte blanche to be an ass!
Bah, bunch of soft skinned grown children. I have been called slurs many times over the years, it never hurt at all, just a simple annoyance. I swear people need to grow up and stop pretending that words hurt.
I did not know his name is Rick Sanchez
okay , a little off of the subject ; doesnt Meek look like a love child between Tom Hanks and Alec Baldwin? just sayin,,, 2.35
Indecent child focused media. Gotta sugarcoat everything don’t we.
more likely because youtube will demonetize videos that include certain keywords, especially those pertaining to pedos. they don't want to be seen as promoting that crap.
They did this due to youtube rules.
@@your_local_questerian I know, just lame still
@@ashleybrown4754 a bitch says "what?"
Phyllis George was the co-anchor of CBS’ morning show many years ago. She interviewed a man who was falsely accused of raping a woman then released when she recanted. The woman was in the studio with the man. At the end of the interview George asked the man if he’d give the woman a hug. She was fired soon after.
Wow, look at Tucker Carlson’s crazy, excited eyes at 15:43 of this upload. It’s like he’s absolutely gleeful!
He gets off on destructive lies.
The biggest surprise omission would have to be Jessica Savitch (although I'm sure because of her passing shortly after it was not such a downfall but was certainly a stained moment on her career).
Would also throw Connie Chung on here after her insensitive question regarding the Oklahoma City bombing.
Another one (although more locally) would be Bill Kamal.
uncle walt, always. a great anchorman, honest and humble. and he was that way off camera, ttoo.
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A lot of these aren’t really “in one moment”, but rather being terrible for a long time and getting found out. What about Charlo Greene? That was a moment to be remembered.
I hate when tv personalities and entertainers apologize for saying something that is no big deal, and they act like they're so broken and upset about the incident. They are just apologizing to save their careers.
James Gordon from Batman 2:18
You missed Sue " what the eff are you doing?" Simmons.
Also, Lucy with Andrew Tate 😂
As a primarily black person whose extended family straddles several fiercely-protected cultural traditions, I feel that the current cultural attitude towards blackface (et al) is an overcorrection.
I don't think that dressing up as Diana Ross back in the eighties, for instance is cringe-worthy any more than Tom Hanks portraying a gay person or a disabled person or a villain should be considered inappropriate since the very point of Halloween and acting is to pretend to be someone you're not for a while. Sure, we now have the capability to cast actors who fit their roles more closely, and we should do that, but it seems to me that that reduces an actor's opportunities to stretch.
However, considering how a person's intent is increasingly difficult to read (both because we are losing the ability to read people AND because people are more often employing ulterior motives) and because information is increasingly shared without context, I completely understand why indulging in another's culture is no longer appropriate.
This is not to say that celebrating/engaging in other cultures is inherently a bad thing; it's just become politically problematic to do so without being accused of appropriation (which is when you actively pretend that a foreign culture is your own) or accused of mocking that culture (when you present that culture in caricature).
It is my sincere hope that this relatively new phobia does not permanently have a chilling effect on cultural proliferation, discouraging people from learning about one another's ways of life.
Society is currently crumbling
O how the mighty have fallen ......
BE PROFESSIONAL AS ALWAYS
I still use Brian Williams memes
10:32
I've been in combat
( USMC 1994 to 2009 )
being in a helicopter
in formation with another
and
it's ATTACKED
that means
YOU'RE UNDER ENEMY FIRE
These people say and do awful things, get fired and receive millions to go away... ridiculous. I once got fired for going to a family members funeral.
😮
It is hard to talk and not eventually show who you are.
Rick Sanchez........ Where is morty????
Sabrina Earley downfall was that their were multiple stories that were all lies. She also currently still has a job in the media industry. Not "one moment" nor "career ruining".