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2/20: Whatever happened to… Bobbie Battista?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Remember Bobbie Battista, a mainstay of CNN Headline News back in the 1980s and ’90s?
She’s now doing mock news reports for the Onion. She said she taped four of them. The first one debuted this month.
Battista left CNN in 2002 and ran a PR firm for five years. She worked on a talk show for a startup news operation for a few months, hoping it would be like CNN in 1980. Didn’t work. She laid low in 2008 but has been working recently on a content development company with a bunch of other former female TV execs.
She did the Onion as a lark. “I haven’t been in news since CNN,” she said, so why not?
Here’s a hilarious sample, touting a fake drug that helps people who are chronically chipper. Warning: there are a couple of curse words in this report for those of you who don’t like that sort of thing:
Comments
By Dano
February 21, 2009 3:46 PM | Link to this
This is TOP-QUALITY satire … I love The Onion!
Makes Saturday Night Live skits seem so LAME by comparison!
I wonder how many takes it took Bobbie to record this, or if she was cracking up? I’d love to see the outtakes!