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[vehve]

Quote: Did you see the Fox News versus CNN on Ebola?



I mean sure, both are true, but...

 

[ChickenCanoe]

It's a shame the quality of journalism on CNN has slipped so far since Ted Turner sold it. Once highly respected worldwide, it's now the butt of relentless jokes by Jon Stewart on the Daily Show.

I watch all of them and there is a stark difference to the point of comical. I always watch Fox to see how each new global tragedy will be portrayed to be Obama's fault.
I actually prefer BBC but it's only on a couple hours in the morning. BBC is pretty apolitical. Apparently, Al Jazeera America is apolitical but no cable companies will carry it.

 

[vehve]

The headlines in online newspapers are pretty appalling nowadays too. You need shock value to get clicks. It's not a new phenomena though. I still remember the front page for one of our afternoon papers 15 years ago. It was folded on a table, and I could see the headline "VIRUS TAPPOI PRESIDENTIN" (A virus killed the president). When I grabbed the paper, I saw the next line, which was below the fold; "YSTÄVÄN", which changes the whole sentence to "A virus killed the president's friend". I bet a lot of others fell for that too.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That has been a tactic of print media since the printing press was invented in an effort to increase readership and thereby, revenue.

Newsboys waving a paper yelling, "read all about it".

 

[bamadude]

I watch fox news if i need a good laugh. I had no idea everything wrong in the world is obamas fault. I like watching hln robin meade. She is a hottie

 

[ChickenCanoe]

A lot of hotties on cable news. Some are even good at their job.
My wife likes Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid because they're not hotties and in her mind the must have been hired for the quality of their work. She actually said that. You can't make that stuff up.

ETA
I'm afraid that came out as politically incorrect at best and objectifying at worst.

 

[vehve]

I'd say that with the amount of people wanting to appearon TV, finding someone who's easy on the eyes and smart isn't that hard... Nothing wrong with how those two look though. Reid looks a bit too much like a mom for my tastes (mainly her styling in the pictures a google image search brings up), but Maddow has a cool look. Can't comment on their job performance though. But I think many women who are considered good looking have to fight the assumption that they got their job by servicing the channel director, can't be easy either.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Very good points.
Rachel looks better now than when she first got the job. When she's not at work after the makeup, she sports a very plain look. She often airs footage of her out in rural settings in just plain clothes and no makeup. Not a hottie but she's cool though.

As you say, it's a buyers market, as it is for most jobs these days. Old guys that have been out of work a while need not apply, myself included.

Regarding easy on the eyes. That's where the expression "I have a face for radio" comes from.

There are some amazing voices coming out of faces that are not.

There was a morning talk radio voice I listened to on the way to work for many years. I really admired his voice and imagined what he looked like. He also seemed very intelligent. Then he started a guest gig with area print media people called Donneybrook. Wow, what a dork.

 

[vehve]

Very good points.
Rachel looks better now than when she first got the job. When she's not at work after the makeup, she sports a very plain look. She often airs footage of her out in rural settings in just plain clothes and no makeup. Not a hottie but she's cool though.

As you say, it's a buyers market, as it is for most jobs these days. Old guys that have been out of work a while need not apply, myself included.

Regarding easy on the eyes. That's where the expression "I have a face for radio" comes from.

There are some amazing voices coming out of faces that are not.

There was a morning talk radio voice I listened to on the way to work for many years. I really admired his voice and imagined what he looked like. He also seemed very intelligent. Then he started a guest gig with area print media people called Donneybrook. Wow, what a dork.

It's always shocking to see how someone you've listened to for years looks. But it's also interesting, how often you can identify someone by their looks after only speaking to them on the phone (for instance if you're selling something online and hand over the goods in person).

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Speaking of objectifying. A long, long time ago I ran the KC office of a small ad agency. We had little staff and the owner found it cost effective to farm out work to an offsite secretarial service. The one woman office lady that ran it had a phone bank and all the goodies of office equipment before they were affordable. She had the most amazing voice I had ever heard and from the very beginning I imagined the angel on the other end of the line. I had never seen her but worked with her by phone daily. After several months the conversations were occasionally flirtatious.
Warning to all, never do what I did!!!!!
I shouldn't have made any overtures whatsoever because of our working relationship.
If I made overtures, I should have suggested coffee or lunch.
NOOOO, not me. I agreed to accompany her to a family get together, where I was to meet her family. She was Jewish so that family meeting was intimidation. The fact that she was petite was a good thing - butter face.