Congratulations to Katy Tur who has just joined The Weather Channel as a member its Vortex 2 Tornado Chase Team.
Here’s a link to the story on TVNewser.
Of course, the regular KO critics again scream nepotism. Here’s Keith’s comment on that one:
“Anybody who suggests so is misinformed, and/or sadly unaware that in this time when the industry is collapsing around us, nobody gets a job based on ‘influence,’ only talent.”
An aside, Keith — when the job market sours, a connection does help! Been there!
Olberblogger wonders how KT’s new job might affect their relationship. After all, if KT is off chasing Tur-nadoes, we all know few of those cyclones occur in New York City or even near the East Coast, for that matter. That’s a Midwest and South phenomena.
Regardless. OlberBlogging wishes KT the very best on her new gig and assignment. She too often gets trashed for being Keith’s girlfriend (for instance, check the header on the TVNewser blog) so it’s good she gets acknowledged for her own efforts. Just don’t get — ah — blown away by it!
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The Huffington Post published the most informative report regarding Ms Tur’s new job.
Huff-Po says, “Tur will join Vortex2 host Mike Bettes as he conducts a five-week field experiment to ‘explore the origins, structure and evolution of tornadoes’.”
So… 5 weeks building her resume while Keith sits mesmerized at Yankee Stadium? Sounds like a good strategy for keeping the relationship together!
You’re right. I didn’t see the 5-week in the TVNewser report. She’s also a “digital reporter” so I’m not sure that means she’ll be on-air broadcast. Good experience anyway.
And as one who spent 8 weeks last summer away from hubby, home and beloved pets — 5 weeks is nothing!!
Having been at both the right place and the wrong place at specific moments in my own life, I know that much of life involves contacts and perhaps simply learning of an opportunity before it is more widely broadcast. There is nothing wrong with that as long as the person is qualified to do the job.
She seems to be a very capable young woman, and I look forward to the day when she is so successful that people ask Keith if she got him his job.
Her father could have helped her, too.
But nobody cares if anybody rubs a chopper pilot’s face in it in quite the same way…Keith Olbermann, Lightning Rod.
That said, connections get you jobs…you have to keep them yourself.