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Originally Posted by Flames0910
Frankly I don't give a whether the newscaster is hot or not and it's not going to impact whether I'm going to watch the news or not.
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Marketing mavens would generally agree you are in a comfortable minority with that opinion. . . . .
Most television news broadcasts will generally not deliberately hire hard-to-look-at folks to read their news.
This is nothing new . . . . the wonderful "Broadcast News" movie from 1987 was built on that foundational theme. Required viewing for readers of this thread.
FOX in particular has made the art of hiring fairly hot ladies as not only news readers but also analysts/commentators a faily obvious and deliberate tactic. Greta Van Sustern, who had a pretty effective nose job later on, might be the only exception. While others like to point to a right wing bias at FOX there might be another, more visible reason why they are, far and away, the number one rated cable news source.
We are only human. If it's a choice between getting our horrifying daily news from an ugly person or a good lookin' one, we'll probably take the latter nine times out of ten. And hiring practices reflect that.
Cowperson