Anonymous wrote:Today her voice was so bad that the guests had to read the questions for themselves to answer. That's ridiculous.
Anonymous wrote:Disfiguring accident = No longer a supermodel. You can stay in the field as a photographer, fashion magazine editor, stylist, etc. but no one is going to enjoy looking at your face anymore and that enjoyment, or at least absence of pain, is a critical component of the job.
This is better than my PP analogy. I think NPR should've shown her a job in production to say "thanks, we value you." It's a prestigious job to produce All Things Considered, for example. No shame in that.
This whole discussion reminds me to ask: how is someone like her covered by the ADA? Is it a bona fide job requirement that your voice be melodious if you have your own talk show? Could a boss push a broadcaster aside once his voice become nauseating, and still be in compliance with the ADA?
Anonymous wrote:It's just so strange that she stays on the air. If my interior decorator went blind one day, she would have my sympathy but I wouldn't hire her to design my next home. I wouldn't hire a wardrobe consultant who is clinically color-blind. Estee Lauder isn't hiring people who've permanently lost their sense of smell as perfumers. I don't get it.
Anonymous wrote:I can think of lots of non-melodious male talk show hosts, past and present. I don't recall lots of discussion in this vein about them.
Disfiguring accident = No longer a supermodel. You can stay in the field as a photographer, fashion magazine editor, stylist, etc. but no one is going to enjoy looking at your face anymore and that enjoyment, or at least absence of pain, is a critical component of the job.