Girl reporter: Bobbie Battista, from CNN to ONN

Posted at 10:42 AM Feb 13, 2009

By Andrea Grimes

Things that are so real, they're fake: Richard Simmons' enthusiasm, Angelina Jolie's lips, The Onion. In fact, The Onion has done such an amazing job of making their news real, sometimes it even accidentally becomes real. Nowhere captures the over-serious, completely unselfconscious vibe of TV news better than the Onion News Network, probably because the employ actual real news anchors. One of them is CNN vet Bobbie Battista, and she's one hell of a girl reporter. Look at her go!


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Battista was educated at Northwestern and was part of the founding team of CNN back in the early 80s. She's won a Peabody Award. And now she's reading the fake news for ONN. Next, she could go for the only thing more fake than ONN: public relations.

[Via Gawker]
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