Gerri Poveri

Gerri Poveri is a corrupt journalist featured in the Magic School Bus episode "Ups and Downs". In order to boost the ratings of her tabloid talk show In Your Face, she fakes a monster in Walker Lake. Ms. Frizzle and her class travel to the bottom of the lake to see the monster, but ultimately discover it's just an giant inflatable plesiosaur. They then expose the hoax to the public and Gerri Poveri is forced to apologize on her own show.