KDKA's Trina Orlando must have drawn the showt straw. Or maybe it was just her proximity to the story as Westmoreland County bureau reporter. Either way, her interview with the ex-Mrs. Joe "84 Lumber" Hardy just aired, including the question used in the promo that I mentioned this morning: "What's it like to be intimate with a man who's 60 years older than you?"
On the one hand: It's a nosey, sleazy question better suited to "Inside Edition."
On the other hand: C'mon, it's what everybody is thinking, right?
Of course the answer revealed nothing except that the whole exercise was nothing but an opportunity for Kristin Georgi to promote her supposedly forthcoming book: "Most of that will be saved for my book, which is almost finished, actually," Georgi said in answer to Orlando's query.
Maybe that non-answer is what KDKA deserves for doing a silly story and going a step beyond WTAE's recent interview, in which anchor Andrew Stockey did not ask the question.
Makes me wonder though, how much do gender politics dictate which reporters can (female) and can't (male) ask the sex question? With Orlando, it's nosey but not creepy. With Stockey, had he asked the question, it would have been both nosey and creepy. It's definitely best that he avoided it.
Posted
Jul 16 2009, 05:47 PM
by
Rob Owen