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Cyrano

(15,060 posts)
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 02:20 PM Aug 2016

NBC's Katy Tur isn't being paid enough

Katy Tur is NBC's embedded reporter with the Trump campaign and has been covering him since the beginning.

For more than a year, she's spent every day of her life looking at this deranged man and listening to him spew out any rancid vomit that pops into his "mind."

She's had to take rude/crude comments Trump has thrown at her personally.

She's had to stand in the middle of crowds of unhinged Trump fans who have found their "fuhrer," and who hate her and almost everyone else in the media.

The rest of us are stuck on the same planet with Trump. We can change the channel and/or ignore his existence. She's stuck in his presence on virtually a daily basis. Whatever NBC is paying her, it ain't close to enough.

Once this campaign is over, NBC really needs to send her for a year-long, all expenses paid, pampered vacation anyplace in the world she want's to go.

And then they must give her the job of her choice and pay her whatever she wants. She's done her time in hell.

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NBC's Katy Tur isn't being paid enough (Original Post) Cyrano Aug 2016 OP
She really is a TROOPER RockaFowler Aug 2016 #1
She's really beautiful as well. BuckIA Aug 2016 #2
Would you have commented on the reporter's looks if they were male? VMA131Marine Aug 2016 #3
Beat me to it... StraightRazor Aug 2016 #5
I think Craig Melvin PatSeg Aug 2016 #7
Brian Williams is Dreamy! Too bad he doesn't have a brain. emulatorloo Aug 2016 #11
If it were Ari Melber, yes - 3catwoman3 Aug 2016 #15
Oh, me, too! Jane Austin Aug 2016 #32
Yes. Loki Liesmith Aug 2016 #28
I don't like his South Park eyebrows Skittles Aug 2016 #35
I agree creeksneakers2 Aug 2016 #24
This message was self-deleted by its author rjsquirrel Aug 2016 #4
The young lady is exceptional and even had Trump to tell her to be quiet (yep, it was her). tonyt53 Aug 2016 #6
She is doing a great job PatSeg Aug 2016 #8
forget having the stamina - having the stomach to listen to that toxic nadine_mn Aug 2016 #19
Yes PatSeg Aug 2016 #34
I loved all of the women journalists covering the candidates! CrispyQ Aug 2016 #9
That vet today should have given HER his Purple Heart ksoze Aug 2016 #10
She should be drawing hazard pay, too. nt. Mc Mike Aug 2016 #14
Yes. Exactly. Who among us would Cyrano Aug 2016 #17
These good media people need back-up. Mc Mike Aug 2016 #20
She'll make some money when she writes her book about life on the crazy train. GreatCaesarsGhost Aug 2016 #12
^^This! Oh man, that is definitely something to look forward to reading nadine_mn Aug 2016 #18
An instant best seller except Cyrano Aug 2016 #21
And last week, Trump literally told her to "be quiet" after she asked him a hard question JPZenger Aug 2016 #13
As noted above, she should very definitely... 3catwoman3 Aug 2016 #16
And she gave up her French boyfriend to follow this clown Mchill17 Aug 2016 #22
Katy faces real danger too creeksneakers2 Aug 2016 #23
She follows up well, too. TNNurse Aug 2016 #25
NO amount of money would be worth that horrendous job!! n/t ailsagirl Aug 2016 #26
Journalists are supposed to go to danger zones so we don't have to... NNadir Aug 2016 #27
Katy Tur, I love you. You are a trooper@!!!!! onecent Aug 2016 #29
She's good. kentuck Aug 2016 #30
Katy Tur deserves combat pay Gothmog Aug 2016 #31
Poise and grit SticksnStones Aug 2016 #33
AND STILL does her job well AwakeAtLast Aug 2016 #36

RockaFowler

(7,429 posts)
1. She really is a TROOPER
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 02:25 PM
Aug 2016

She has gotten him on the record badgering her. He has flat-out lied to her multiple times. He looks like an absolute fool around her.

I really think she can't wait to be a foreign correspondent once again. I think Kasie Hunt is the same way.

PatSeg

(47,602 posts)
7. I think Craig Melvin
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 02:35 PM
Aug 2016

is really good looking! Women notice the men's looks too. Of course, it isn't important overall, just a little icing on the cake.

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tonyt53

(5,737 posts)
6. The young lady is exceptional and even had Trump to tell her to be quiet (yep, it was her).
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 02:34 PM
Aug 2016

She just seems to smile and go on.

PatSeg

(47,602 posts)
8. She is doing a great job
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 02:36 PM
Aug 2016

I often try to imagine what it must be like for her. I don't know if I would have the stamina to follow Trump around.

nadine_mn

(3,702 posts)
19. forget having the stamina - having the stomach to listen to that toxic
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 04:02 PM
Aug 2016

bullshit day in and day out. And not just by Trump, which you can just brush off as one sociopath, but by the hordes of Trombies clawing and staggering around at the rallies

PatSeg

(47,602 posts)
34. Yes
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 07:28 PM
Aug 2016

I hope it doesn't leave her permanently damaged. I know I'd have a hard time recuperating from it and she still 3 months to go.

CrispyQ

(36,518 posts)
9. I loved all of the women journalists covering the candidates!
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 02:50 PM
Aug 2016

What a great idea that was!

But yeah, Katy got the meanest of them all & has handled it with aplomb!

Cyrano

(15,060 posts)
17. Yes. Exactly. Who among us would
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 03:52 PM
Aug 2016

want to daily stand in a room full of angry haters shrieking out their loyalty to their "fuhrer"?

It's really a dangerous place for her to be given that Trump has personally told her to "Be quiet," among other things. She could get punched out, or worse.

This lady has grit.

Mc Mike

(9,115 posts)
20. These good media people need back-up.
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 04:06 PM
Aug 2016

That crap dRumpf's actual nazi buddies pulled on GQ's Julia Ioffe shows where his brownshirt campaign is coming from.

nadine_mn

(3,702 posts)
18. ^^This! Oh man, that is definitely something to look forward to reading
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 04:00 PM
Aug 2016

somebody needs to snatch up the movie rights too...lol

JPZenger

(6,819 posts)
13. And last week, Trump literally told her to "be quiet" after she asked him a hard question
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 03:21 PM
Aug 2016

It was at a press conference, where a candidate should kind of expect to be questioned by the press.

creeksneakers2

(7,476 posts)
23. Katy faces real danger too
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 04:55 PM
Aug 2016

Trump sticks Katy and the rest of the press in a pen. Trump's crowds are often hostile toward them.

I follow her on twitter and she often gets nasty comments from right wingers. Trump's supporters dislike her more than the rest of the press.

NNadir

(33,556 posts)
27. Journalists are supposed to go to danger zones so we don't have to...
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 05:20 PM
Aug 2016

...but all the same, she does deserve combat pay at the very least.

kentuck

(111,110 posts)
30. She's good.
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 05:35 PM
Aug 2016

Hallie Jackson is real go-getter also -- never at a loss for words. Both are pleasing to the eyes, too.

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