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"TALKING HEAD" TV NEWS REPORTERS
The people used to deliver TV news and host TV news shows are living proof that you do not need a lot of brains to succeed in the TV news business and earn a lot of money. All you really need is to be relatively good looking, possess the gift of gab with a smoothe delivery and having all the right connections never hurts either, as well as timing....being in the right place at the right time to get hired. TV news reporting is semi-glamorous for most reporters and perfect for basically self-driven, self-centered, egocentric people who, generally, will not attain much more than a superficial career without much meat on it.
Compared to REAL jobs in life in America, broadcast news jobs are basically a "no-brainer" for slick looking, smoothe talking, pretty people.
Ever wonder why you may rarely, if ever, see any incredibly ugly people delivering the news you see on TV? Those who make it "up the ladder" in broadcast TV news are essentially considered to be "genetically correct" for the job by the top level TV news managers and corporate decision makers. A side note, when hiring TV news talent the broadcasting managers are always concerned about meeting racial quotas more so than other companies because broadcasting is such a high profile business in the communities they serve and no broadcast TV news manager wants to be confronted by people carrying signs of protest outside their TV stations.
Concerning the substance of TV news too often it is not news unless it is "visual" like wrecks, fires, crime and so on. Despite what they want you to believe never expect purely objective coverage or a completely fair portrayal of events which would bore most viewers. TV news is essentially a shallow headline service of one-liner sound bites created to try and stir up your emotions. Rational content bores the audience. Emotional content creates ratings which creates profits when advertisers buy the shows with the highest ratings!
Concerning TV news content, the real story may be in what they are NOT telling you meaning that which they are editing out of the story. Reputations can be made then broken depending on the whims of news reporters, their managers, producers and so on.
News people take "objective" facts and "subjectively" string them together into thoughts then dispense them to the public. Negative thoughts tend to make less thoughtful viewers think negatively about issues, events and people.
A negative "slant" to the news is oftentimes the hidden agenda of news people. Simply add up the "negatives" you hear in a news story and add up the "positives" in the same story to determine the "slant" they want you to believe!
Remember, the prizes for award winning news may too often go to reporters who skim the surface of news stories or expose the scandals of private citizens compared to those journalists who dig deeper and report on the more boring practicality of policies being rammed down the throats of consumers and the citizenry by government, corporations and others.
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