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News & ArtsWednesday, October 28, 2009
Politics Former KIRO Colleagues Had Plenty to Say About Susan Hutchison
Posted by Dominic Holden on Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Reached by phone, former colleagues of King County Executive candidate Susan Hutchison, the former evening news anchor for KIRO television, shared plenty of stories about Hutchison and her nicknames in the newsroom. Here's the beginning of a piece in this week's paper:
One evening in the mid-1980s, back when Susan Hutchison was still an anchor at KIRO-TV, a news producer who hadn't finished writing the last two sentences of an evening news teaser decided to put in some placeholder text.
- Robert Ullman
Instead of writing something like "Two Chihuahuas roasted in a house fire, film at 11!" the producer, Peggy Mapes, wrote: "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." According to several people who worked for KIRO at the time, Mapes later updated the text with the correct script—but someone forgot to update Hutchison's teleprompter.
Read what happened HERE.
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