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We must allow ourselves to admit that every so often, things that bring us joy or laughs or good vibes are from…the heterosexual community. Straight people can and do contribute to our lives in important ways. In general, these clips tend to fall into one of a four categories: falling down, cracking up, digging in, and letting loose.
News Anchor Eats Cat Vomit On-Air!!
To one extent or another, we all adjust our behavior to fit a particular context.
Those of us with social anxiety tend to be hyper-aware of the performative aspect of socializing, and can start to panic that the performance will falter, and we’ll be unmasked as frauds to our intense shame.
From that perspective, there’s something cathartic about being reminded that even the people who code-switch at a professional level—who put on a live public performance every working day of their lives—occasionally falter.
On the other hand, taking a moment to consider how horrifying that exposure must be for people whose livelihood depends on successful fraud—the fact that careers can be damaged or even destroyed in these moments, leaving just a painful and public memory—can kind of put a damper on the whole genre.
That’s right. She was reporting for the Albuquerque and Santa Fe Market, for KOAT Action 7 News, broadcasting to hundreds of thousands of homes, and a notable slip-up like that would be sure to get her bosses’ attention, and had the potential to derail her budding career.
Fortunately Izaguirre was talented and personable enough that it didn’t come to that.
These are the purest peek behind the curtain—when people don’t know they’re being watched, and let their true colors show.
Sometimes that just means getting caught daydreaming or fixing their hair. Other times that means shouting and swearing, and has lost some people their jobs.
“Right after the break, we’re going to interview Erik Weihenmayer, who climbed the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, but he’s gay—I mean, he’s gay, excuse me, he’s blind.”
Back in the early 2000’s a young news anchor in New Mexico had a slip of the tongue on live TV that has enterred the annals of news blooper history.
Gay Mount Everestwww.youtube.com
Cynthia Izaguirre had just gotten done reporting on a separate story discussing activism for gay rights, and was setting up a segment with the first blind man to climb Mount Everest, and her thoughts got twisted on the way to her mouth, resulting in a 14-second clip that would live on in infamy.
It’s such a simple moment, but—especially out-of-context—it’s hard not to laugh at the emphasis she puts on the word “gay,” as the big twist in the headline.
Yet, nearly 20 years later, those 14 seconds remains her greatest claim to fame.
Boom Goes the Dynamitewww.youtube.com
Once upon a time that kind of mistake would have existed only for the live audience, and maybe on a few VHS copies in the area. But other than that, it would have passed on and been quickly forgotten.
But, I think it’s important to occasionally touch down to earth.
It’s Bill O’Reilly being violently incapable of understanding the phrase “play us out,” when recording an episode of Inside Edition. If I allow myself to empathize, most of these clips are like little living nightmares, far worse than showing up to school in your underwear…
But since that’s a bit of a dark note to close on, here’s a clip of two Philadelphia anchors laughing hysterically at Ryan Lochte:
Ryan Lochte Interview Makes Anchor Cry!www.youtube.com
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Sometimes being queer in a cruel world means we can get wrapped up in ourselves, always taking time to note and appreciate the things in our lives and community that are positive, or special.
It was the perfect, professional intonation for entirely the wrong word. Inspired by Beyoncé (straight) graciously releasing an album for all of us to “gay out” (technical term) to at future parties, I’ve decided to return the favour, and delve into one of my favourite things a straight person has ever done. In 2020 this category has evolved to include loved ones and pets interrupting the at-home broadcasts.
Sometimes it happens with a disagreeable guest, or a passerby who wants to interrupt the show, but more often than not, there is some underlying tension between people who work together every week, and the right trigger sets them off while they’re live on-air.
The classic example is a spat between a reporter and an anchor at Fox 5’s NY Good Day that was preserved for posterity in 2001, before the era of Internet video.
The way one wrong word cuts through her practiced poise encapsulates what is so appealing about these moments. Her professional life has progressed smoothly, and today she is an anchor at WFAA in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas—one of the largest local news markets in the country, serving a population of millions every weekday.
And it’s also Isiah Carey on location in Arkansas, instantly dropping his news voice when a bug flies into his mouth, telling his production team “I’m dying in this ****ing country-ass, ****ed up town.”
News Reporter swallows bug then loses it. Some of my best parents are straight! “Grape lady”), but it also includes technical difficulties, and—of course—slips of the tongue a la Cynthia Izaguirre.
It’s anything that can go wrong and give an anchor or reporter that moment of surprise, or embarrassment—followed by the struggle to recover.