The story of what happened next is famous among KIRO staff. Guenther continued: "Apparently Susan doesn't realize the gaffe, nor apparently was it ever recorded. But few have ever forgotten that it occurred.
But, added Guenther: "In the six or seven different newsrooms I've worked in, there really was a sense of this anchor at KIRO not being the sharpest tool in the shed.
Each one of them remembers Hutchison, who is now running for King County executive, as a dim bulb who was unfamiliar with current events and was considered unqualified to report in the field or handle a serious interview. Because of this, they said, she earned the nicknames "airhead" and "bubblehead," and had a reputation as a "dilettante news reader. Hutchison was KIRO's lead evening news anchor from to It was plenty of time to generate the name recognition that has helped her in her race against Democrat Dow Constantine, but it was also plenty of time to generate a collection of amusing stories that now leave her former coworkers aghast at the idea that Hutchison could potentially wind up in the most powerful job in the King County government.
I never, ever, ever, ever would guess that she would be in that position. I never saw the intellectual depth in Susan Hutchison that I would expect in a King County executive.
Among the incidents that have become legend in the KIRO newsroom is the tale of the vanishing telephone. Richard Pauli, a television-news photographer for seven years at KIRO, recalled that the phone in the makeup room kept on disappearing, and "finally someone spray-painted it yellow and green, and made it really ugly" in order to discourage its theft.
In another story told around KIRO, Hutchison saw an image on one of the monitors of an employee lying on a couch on the studio set. But it was a freeze-frame taken earlier, and the man had since gotten up. As this story goes, Hutchison told a producer trying to rotate a television set that he needed a lazy Susan—a platform that swivels—and then someone in the newsroom said, "We've already got one of those. In addition to all the employee lore, there are also court records that show that Hutchison created some bad blood at KIRO and was thought to have a questionable work ethic.
She sued the station in for what she claimed was age and race discrimination after KIRO hired Kristy Lee—a younger, Asian woman—to take her place, according to papers filed with King County Superior Court. Hutchison alleged she had been "replaced in part because she is older and Caucasian. When Hutchison discovered that Lee received time off over the Fourth of July holiday in —time Hutchison had tried to take off herself—she called in sick, according to the court records.
But she apparently wasn't sick. On July 25, the station suspended Hutchison for five days. Following the canoeing incident, a demotion, and a drop in ratings, Hutchison left the station.
But the half-dozen former colleagues who spoke to The Stranger , while all saying they intended no ill will toward Hutchison, were adamant about her lack of intellectual depth. Like a female guitarist was some kind of elusive Bengal tiger, caught only briefly on tape. As cocreator of the new play that rocks, These Streets , writer and performer Sarah Rudinoff aims to give the women of grunge their due.
Which was completely different. The hard-rocking women succumbed to the same demons as their male counterparts—and had similar out-of-body experiences when their hometown music scene was suddenly thrust into an international spotlight. Their successes and struggles, though, are largely overlooked and their music in dire need of proper play, says Rudinoff. Cue the record scratch. Some enjoyed success; others just a brief mention in the University of Washington student newspaper.
These Streets , opening February 21 at ACT, distills the most dynamic tales as a blending of two fictional narratives. The other story line finds these women in the present day, reflecting on those darker, scrappier times with a KEXP DJ.
In the process of writing the play, they catalogued dozens of first--person accounts that will be archived at the UW as an oral history of grunge the untold story and gathered memorabilia for an accompanying exhibit at the Project Room in Capitol Hill.
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