Talk:Connie Chung

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[edit] Sex symbol

This is categorized under "sex symbols." Who made that call? Drumsac 16:55, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Removed pending WP:CITE. - brenneman^(t)(c) 21:20, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

The entire category of sex symbols has been deleted now anyway, as of January 14, 2006. Gilliamjf 03:03, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Personal life

"...were pulling in million dollar annual salaries." --something more formal, perhaps?

Is any of the facts in "personal life" true? They seem so ridiculous. 72.138.81.82 05:05, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Connie factor

I think the Family Guy character is more a reference of the so-called Connie Factor; the ubiquitousness of female, Asian-American news correspondents in local news, which really warrants a mention in this article. --Chardman 22:14, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. The passage gives Peter's line "Thanks, Connie" as evidence of the supposed parody, when in fact, it's proof that it's not a reference to Chung, since that punchline underscores that he mistook her for another Asian reporter. Nightscream 07:21, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite

This article is one of the poorest I've encountered on Wikipedia. Someone should rewrite the whole thing. Specific problems that could be easily fixed: under "recent," it says first that she appeared on "The View" in 2005, then goes on to say she hadn't appeared on television since 2003. In the paragraph about Newt Gingrich's mother, the big controversy is never explained - the fact Newt's mom called Hillary a "bitch" is the central point, and leaving that out is clearly not NPOV. In the Connie Chung Tonight section, is 2 million dollars really a "whopping" salary, for a (then) household name news veteran? Do we have salaries for other household name news veterans listed on their pages, with adjectives describing whether the salaries appear to be "whopping" to the writer? Like her or not, Connie Chung was once one of the most recognizable names in news with a very successful career. Clearly, the writer does not like her.

It should include a weblink to:

< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekends_with_Maury_and_Connie >.

Notes should include: Every episode of "Weekends [Weakends]" has been done with much comedic-sarcasm. There was the ep. where Constance interviewed herself, &, repetitively insulted her prerecorded self.

Final ep., Saturday-Sunday,17th-18th, June 06: ended: Connie singing, mockery-style, sliding off of a "grand piano", "Thanks for the Memories", altered lyrics. Then, Connie & Maur danced, ballroom. In the piano-dress, she looked far more attractive than many twenty-year-old fashion-models. "Sex symbol"? If I had had a cymbal, it would've rung. Thank You, D. F. T. P.

I agree it was poorly written. I was surprised when I came across it, not because I haven't encountered much worse-written articles, but because I never expected to find that dearth of quality in an article about a famous news anchor. (I wonder if that's endemic of her standing in the journalistic community. :-)) As for the discrepancy with The View, I'm guessing that the passage about not having appeared on TV since 2003 was intended to mean "as the host/anchor of a program." I tweaked it here and there. Nightscream 07:38, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese or Taiwanese

The searches quite obviously show that one label is used while the other is not: [1] [2]. The evidence shows that the term is well accepted and verifiable. I don't see why we need to excluder her from the Chinese American category.--Jiang 23:32, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

The inclusion on the chinese american list should only be conditional or a violation of NPOV.--Bonafide.hustla 20:25, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

I really don't see how it is a violation of NPOV. Wikipedia should only reflect labels used by the general community at large.--Jiang 01:18, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed potential libel

I removed the following:

• On his radio show, G. Gordon Liddy, attempting to tell some ethnic humor, once said that Chung's real name was "Nissan Datsun Toyota" and that the first English words she learned to say were "You yankee pirot, tell us where American pranes are coming flom."

If untrue, this is libelous and thus violates our policy on writing about living people. If true, it needs a source. Powers ^T 13:49, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Powers: It is true, I heard it in (or near) 1999. He even refered to it on the next broadcast of his radio show, dismissing the criticism of his comments as an overreaction to lighthearted humour. But you are correct, we should locate a citation or a MP3 of the remark before putting it back in the article.72.82.206.156 23:05, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Middle Name

Does Yu-Hwa mean something special in Chinese?--71.35.69.46 19:01, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

All Chinese names mean something special. X911 03:41, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

However, Yu-Hwa 毓華 to me looks like "raise flower" -- it looks extremely far from "Princess Ivory." Could a native Mandarin speaker verify this? Spyffe 04:10, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Yu means "grow" or "cultivate", Hua is the word for "flower". However, Yu-Hua does not literally mean "grow/cultivate flower". Rather, as a name, it represents a wish for abundant growth and beauty. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.85.54.197 (talk) 01:02, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Names and dates have been changed. Can somebody check this...—Gaff ^ταλκ 03:09, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Yu means "grow" or "cultivate", Hua is the word for "flower". However, Yu-Hua does not literally mean "grow/cultivate flower". Rather, as a name, it represents a wish for abundant growth and beauty.

[edit] Chinese Spies controversy

I have returned back the deleted section about Connie Chung's remarks about Chinese people being spies. I believe that this type of comment by her should be included among the "controversies" of her career. Someone (MingTing?) has deleted it, characterizing it as "uncited" and "unfounded". I don't know what "unfounded" means, and would be happy to hear a clarification, but it is certainly cited. Perhaps what is meant was that her (in my opinion) disgusting and sellout remarks are unfounded, which I would tend to agree. But that's what makes them controversal, I believe. 206.41.93.154 03:36, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

How about fleshing out the details of the protest? Who, actually, was protesting, for instance? The Sanity Inspector 19:00, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

TingMing continues to remove the Chinese spies controversy without comment. It also appears he/she has been recognized as a potential "sockpuppet" of "Nationalist". 128.101.248.101 16:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)