We all make little blunders at work, and usually,
it's not that big of a deal. But for those who read and report the news,
the public nature of their screw-ups can not only result in widespread internet mockery,
it can sometimes earn them a pink slip, as fans of Anchorman know all too well. "From the entire Channel Four news team, I'm
Veronica Corningstone." "And I'm Ron Burgundy. Go F--- yourself, San Diego." It doesn't just happen in the movies, though. Here's a look at some bloopers that got these
real-life reporters fired. Pensive performance If you've ever been caught goofing off at
work, daydreaming or picking your nose or whatever, you probably just got treated to
the gentle suggestion that you remove your head from your rectum and carry on with your
job. Not so for poor Australian newscaster Natasha
Exelby, who was fired after going to her happy place and not coming back until the cameras
were already rolling. "ABC News, Mount Sylvia. Now to sports with Meredith…" News director Gavin Morris later backtracked
on the anchor's dismissal, saying Exelby was just being taken off the air but not actually
let go. For her part, Exelby sent out a tweet blaming
her "mesmerizing pen." How do you measure success? Is there anything that matters more to a professional
athlete than winning the playoffs? Not according to Comcast Sportsnet reporter
Susannah Collins, who insisted that the Chicago Blackhawks were totally focused on the postseason
despite some serious distractions. "All-season-long they have been saying that
this is the season that matters. And despite the fact that they've had such
a tremendous amount of sex—errr success during the regular season..." Three days later Collins was fired, supposedly
for unrelated reasons, but it was pretty obvious to everyone that her bosses weren't comfortable
discussing Patrick Kane's love life. When in Rome... Most on-air mistakes are simple slips of the
tongue. But one reader for India's state media agency
Doordarshan had a much larger problem. While reporting on the visit of Chinese president
Xi Jinping in 2014, she misinterpreted his name...and read them as Roman numerals. As far as international incidents go, this
would seem pretty minor, but it was still enough to get her fired, even though plenty
of other news anchors around the globe have struggled to figure out his name too. (Various attempts at trying to say "Xi Jinping") Celebrating an assassin When Lebanese politician Walid Eido was assassinated
in Beirut in 2007, not everybody was torn up about it. Least of all National Broadcasting Network
anchor Sawsan Darwish. "The anchorwoman then says… "So why did it take them so long to kill him?" "She cracks up laughing and her colleague
joins in." Then she doubled down by suggesting some new
targets. "Then the anchor says in reference to Anti-Syrian
Parliament member Ahmed Fetfet." "Fetfet should be next. I'm counting them down." Viewers were outraged, and Darwish was immediately
fired … for three months. Then NBN reinstated her, and she issued an
on-air apology. Here's hoping she doesn't try to incite and
future assassinations. Farewell, foulmouth As the late local news broadcast wound down
on KSN in Wichita, Kansas, on Saturday night in December, 2013, anchor Justin Kraemer signed
off with a version of the same closing tag that pretty much every late night news anchor
uses. The end-of-broadcast music was playing, the
cameras had cut away to a lovely view of the city at night, and viewers were settling in
for Saturday Night Live. But then he pulled a move straight out of
Ron Burgundy's playbook. "Let's get the f--- out of here." "Oh! Great Odin's Raven!" Kraemer lost his job two days after the Saturday
night broadcast, getting the news first-thing Monday morning. For his part, he took his firing in stride,
saying "I did something extraordinarily unprofessional. It's something that's drilled into you from
the minute you start in this business to always consider the microphones hot." "Tony did I just curse? Are you kidding me? S---! I mean s---! Shoot!" Thanks for watching! Click the Grunge icon to subscribe to our
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