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I think Carole’s take on the show is I’m above all this and all of you and I’m just dipping into this to have the experience and I’m going to observe and stay above the fray.  Because really I’m a journalist/author/serious person, not a reality tv star.  Let me remind you 100 times about how I used to have real jobs.  A long, long time ago.

I thought she was refreshing in the beginning.  Now I’m over her.  She completely lacks self-awareness.[/quote]

+1. Agreed.[/quote]
I’m the PP who asked if this is her true self and I agree with this assessment. And she stopped working for ABC ~15 years ago. She is no longer a journalist
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She's also a novelist. "What Remains" is phenomenal. I didn't read "Widow's Guide," but it was relatively recent. Isn't it pretty typical for writers to publish books at a slow pace?

Plus, what's been on her resume is very impressive. And she's very wealthy. Why can't she do as she pleases? Why can't she do projects that interest her as they come up, and enjoy her life?[/quote]

She can do whatever she wants. But her journalism career was a long time ago. For a lack of expression, her work experience is no longer relevant. It's like high school football player who keeps talking about his glory days.

Now she's a reality tv star like the rest of them.[/quote]

OK, I'm a former journalist whose byline appeared in the Washington Post more than 10 years ago. So I don't claim to be a journalist, because my highest pinnacle was a story about condo flipping in WaPo.

[b]Carole is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist who has traveled the globe to cover stories in war zones. She gets to call herself a journalist for life. That's big time. That's ABC, that's network news in prime time. She can dine out on that for as long as she wants to, and no current or former member of the SPJ will ever say she's not a journalist.
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It's like telling someone who hasn't practiced medicine in 10 years that he's no longer a doctor, when he used to be a heart surgeon.[/quote]

Yeah, I just don't really agree with this.  I think it's a bit pathetic.  My spouse founded a company and was the CEO and sold it for many millions about 10 years ago.  He doesn't walk around currently referring to himself as a CEO or talking about it all the time.  It's the past.

Or the surgeon comparison.  No discredit to journalists, but being a heart surgeon is a good deal more difficult and challenging.  If I met a heart surgeon who hadn't practiced in over a decade and yet talked about it constantly and referred to it as a present-day career, I would think that person was disconnected from reality.

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Well if someone went on national television and said he had no career and implied that he was basically good for nothing/had no business acumen, he might well talk about his experience as a successful CEO, right?

Heart surgery, of course, is more difficult than journalism, but it takes a lot of skill, hard work, perseverance and talent to be a journalist. And to be on the level of Emmy-level nightly network news is truly rare and truly exceptional.[/quote]

She said Carole has no career.  Present tense.  She didn’t cast further aspersions.  I think it’s harsh, but true.

Also she talks about the journalist stuff incessantly well before this.

I do agree what she did was rare and not easy.[/quote]

She does talk about it incessantly, and does tend to put a bit of a spin on it. Not that they aren't great achievements, but the Emmys she won aren't her own personal ones--she was part of a team.  It's like an actress who wins an Emmy for "Best Drama on TV", rather than "Best Actress on Evening Drama".  Bit of a difference.

I'm also rather tired of her talking about her late husband, although it pales in comparison to Dorinda (almost called her Dorit--hate both of them).  She was married to him for 4 years, and he's been dead for almost twenty.  Why does she still have his name at this point?  Oh, right, because the Radziwill name is recognizable and important, unlike DiFalco which probably just recalls her working class roots in upstate NY, which she is clearly trying to distance herself from.[/quote]

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