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FOX - Hire a Legend Not A Lawyer
Thursday, January 03, 2002 By: Juan Paxety
FOX News has hired lawyer Greta Von Susteren away from CNN, even though CNN offered more money. (Robert Lee can, perhaps, now ask for a raise.)
But if FOX wants to make a great hire, pick up the true talent recently cast aside by CNN - Bill Tush (right).
Tush became an Atlanta cult favorite in the late '60s and early '70s as he worked on-air at Ted Turner's WTCG-TV 17. In 1974, he created and anchored Turner's first-ever newscasts (six years before CNN) - an early morning comedycast that aired after the late movie. When WTCG went up on satellite as "The Superstation" in 1976, Tush's fame grew nationally.
One of his most famous newscasts featured a German Shepard wearing a coat, tie, and black horn-rimmed glasses. Tush had stuffed the dog's mouth full with peanut butter. As the dog chewed on camera (tight shot) Tush read the news off-camera.
Tush went on in 1980 to create Turner's first original program, the sketch comedy show "Tush." It featured Jan Hooks, who joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1986.
Let's get with it Roger Ailes - hire a broadcasting legend, Bill Tush.
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