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Re: Sea Gypsy
I look at network newscasts as well as the local - the network anchors are dressed more - don't know if the right word is "professionally" or "conservatively" - and are more straightforward and on the job. Sometimes the locals are glammed up and dressed to show off all their assets, low necklines, sleeveless. They haven't taken to tube tops yet, thank heavens. They read the statistics, do lead-ins to the traffic wrecks, house fires, shootings, etc. but by the end they're giggling over some cute animal story... The commercials are almost a welcome interruption at times.
posted by
Pat_B
on August 18, 2021 at 6:01 AM
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I know it seems like that and they cut to more commercials than there is air time but our female “news“ anchors here don’t wear party dresses and merely read what they are given, or are you talking about a tv show that isn’t posing as The News. 
There is no journalism or much broadcast news on mainstream tv to me.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on August 17, 2021 at 7:23 PM
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Good afternoon
How ironic. I have been watching a series similar to the characters you have described here. It is called, Firefly Lane and I am absolutely hooked. It is based around two girls/women who grew up together and are now journalists. They keep giving flashbacks to their painful teenage years and the troubles they are now dealing with as grown women. It is on Netflix.
posted by
Sherri_G
on August 17, 2021 at 10:03 AM
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Good Afternoon
Pat, I don't trust anything on the news. They only tell us what they want us to hear. I would trust what you said long before I trusted anything that they said.
posted by
Goldiec
on August 17, 2021 at 9:06 AM
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Once corporate America started having controlling interests of news stations, programming and ads we lost any truth in news or ads. It's all about the ratings and money.
posted by
Annicita
on August 17, 2021 at 9:02 AM
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Re: Ciel
My journalism professor - a former beat reporter for a big St. Louis newspaper - called it "infotainment." He also said if we future reporters ever got the assignment to interview a politician, we could trust their hostility and rejection, and needed to be sure to double-check any comment they made with a smile.
posted by
Pat_B
on August 17, 2021 at 7:48 AM
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The News has not been trustworthy since They decided entertainment was more important to the Viewers and would get better ratings. I miss the News, sober and sometimes somber as it was in Cronkite's day.
posted by
Ciel
on August 17, 2021 at 6:45 AM
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