Women...

[Riftaxe]

Changing channels tonight, i saw not one woman, a lot of scrawny overly painted girls but not one woman other then playing in an aged matron role.

So of course I hit netflix to watch my old shows and have to wonder, when do over paid actresses learn how to feed and nourish themselves?

[applegrove]

1. I'm glad I'm no longer keeping up with fashion. So much eyemakup

these days. You have to be so much thinner than I ever was when I was thin. You have to wear cocktail dresses. Ridiculous. And I'm only talking about the female newsanchors on CNN. LOL!

[Riftaxe]

2. News anchors smiling while reading

the most horrific stories ticks me off too, I know reading off the prompt is part of the job but seriously, if your'e a decent person, you don't show your gums while reading a story about a massacre!

[Chan790]

3. Yeah, you do.

Focus groups say it makes the audience feel more safe and comfortable in the face of tragedy.

I always wonder where they find enough sociopaths to make up a focus group. Normal people don't think that way.

"Today in Russia, a sea monster killed eleventy-million people but it's okay because here at CNN, we're still smiling!"

[Riftaxe]

4. That is a bit frightening

well more then a bit. I am not sure if why is because it means you can "soften" the news or why anyone would want to!

Surely a grin will not effect the reality, that they study it enough to figure out how to make it less disturbing is weird.

[Dash87]

5. "12 people died today in a massive explosion! Yippee!"

The worst newscasters are the female cardboard cut-outs on the Fox News Channel. They look like they were made in a factory.

The male newscasters on FNC are all loud, obnoxious idiots that probably drink every night until they fall face-first into their furniture pieces and break them in half. Big, loud doofs.

[pipi_k]

6. I don't

see that as much as news anchors who seem to switch facial expressions on and off like a lightbulb.

Bad story = what looks like a fake look of pain

Good story = what looks like a fake look of happiness

How about something in between? Neutral.

I don't recall Huntley and Brinkley over-emoting.

Nor Walter Cronkite, even as he struggled to keep his wits about him when he announced to the country that JFK was dead.