One of the penances for living in Asia is that we don’t get American News. Our cable TV includes the BBC. We get DWnews (German) on one network. We get Korea. And we gets all sorts of Philippine news. But the only American news here comes on CNN International.
Now, CNN International is not American but has a bias toward the “international” point of view. Think Democratic party/European/UN. In other words, no good news if Bush did it, a little good news if the US did it.. and except for Anderson Cooper’s evening news which we see in the morning, the news readers tend to have perfect British accents and be a “non descript ethnic” origin. There’s a little more diversity in the weather people, who include African and Hispanic weather people, but the newsreaders are different.
The newsreaders tend to be nondiscript ethnic women, and they smirk…and their smirks drive me crazy. Maybe it’s just CNN policy: Smile, ladies, or you lose your job…but the smiles are there even when reporting terrible things, or inane things, or headlines. Smile…smile…smile…
Yesterday I watched the business news, and the newsreader and the reporter both had smiles…but the smiles didn’t match the rest of their faces…their facial muscles were tense, and their eyes were hard and worried looking.
I mean, they weren’t reporting anything big (I mean, neither good nor bad news or even big news…) so why the smiles?
Do we see Neil Cavuto or Lue Dobbs forced to smile while reporting the Dow was down or up a tenth of a point? Of course not.
And it’s not like the CNN I newsbabes are pleasent to look at. For example, yesterday one female newsreader had a bad hair days, yet wore a blouse with cleavage down to her fifth intercostal space. And just in case you didn’t notice her cleavage, she wore a necklace had a clunky long shells at the end as if it was an arrow pointing at her B cup..
Earth to CNN INTERNATIONAL: Loose the smirks.
and hire the makeup artists from Fox. I mean, if they can make Greta v.S. and Susan E. nice looking, they could probably help your newsbabes.
And for heavens’ sake, hire someone who is intelligent. You have smart know it alls like Cooper for the men, but no newbabe with an IQ over 80 except Amanpour, and she is a reporter not a newsbabe.
OR hire some Pinays. There are many talented newsladies here who are both beautiful and smart, and they can ask hard questions in interviews that would make Larry King blanche, and do it so charmingly that the expert won’t notice.
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Nancy Reyes is a retired physician living in the Philippines with her husband, six dogs, three cats, and a large extended family. Her webpage is Finest Kind Clinic and Fishmarket. She confesses she is old enough to remember when E.D. Hill was still Edie Tarbox at WPXI…
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackDear, fond human being.
I don’t expect much from you; maybe just a second of your time before you choose to ignore this, or laugh in my face for the matter of being right. Why do we live like this? This country: the lovely red, white and blue. What’s make you proud to stand behind that flag? The fact that we can beat anyone who “terrorizes” us, or the fact that we formed this country on the matter of escaping greed and England’s ways? As a whole, what have we become? This pit hole of lies? This cradle of prision? Just the hypocrites that turned into everything we orginally were against?
Don’t you get sick of it? The same news, the same wars, the same plan: oh we must be supirior and take your oil and kill your leader while we cover up it all up by lying to our own country. “Oh well they have weapons of mass destruction, so we must go in and conformed them to our ways! GO AMERICA WOHO!” Wait…don’t we have weapons of mass destruction? Have you even considered that fact that maybe people don’t like america because of what we’ve become? We buy products that’s produced from poor labored factories,which are run by forein underpaid human beings, we’re rascist, we’re sexist, we homophobic, and we believe that God is on our side. This mass overload of supieriorty. Nothing but money matters now. Try to tell me it’s not true! I BEG YOU! We live 13 years of our lives in a compacted zone of “learn, learn learn, you have to get good grades, so you can go to college and make a living!” Why? Because money is what makes this country who it is! You must pay the bills. You must pay your taxes! Feed the government because, they’ve been sooooo pleasent. Maybe your citizens didn’t want war! Have you thought about that? Maybe these women didn’t want their husbands to die for a oil bond cause. Iraq isn’t our country! Maybe they don’t want your “organization”. I think they’ve had enough bloodshed form our war on terror. So why must we stay there. For democracy? What is democracy? As far as I’m concerned, I see no difference than from a dictatorship. If something doesn’t change, we’ll be on the lines of another world war. The governement was made to HELP the people, not strip them of their earnings to make it better for “everyone” else. Not to make intense desicions on whether or not we go to war. Shouldn’t the people decide? Shouldn’t the people decide what’s fair? Shouldn’t we have a choice on whether or not we want an abortion and who we choice to love, despite who likes it? Everything about this country is a contradiction, even from the beginning. That pledge we say, was written by rich land owning white men, who believed in slavery and believed they were supieor to women. Now is that your idea of who we really are? Then why is it so symbolized? Even from the beginning it was all about riches. The rich made the rules, everyone else was forced to follow, or suffered the concequences. Sound familar?
Why can’t we be moral, descent human beings, for once, and stop think about how much money we can make and start thinking about what makes us, as a whole, happy? Why can’t we get rid of nuclear missles and for once, make amends. If we keep going on like this, ignoring natural causes, we’re going to destroy the world; and then my friends, we the human race, will be the muderor of our own existence. But I don’t expect you to believe me. Perhaps you’re happy with all the money you’ve made from starting a war? Those corperations, bathing in their riches while we strive to get by on or miniumn wage job. Justice for all ,huh?
Will I have to live like this forever; Can’t America become something beautiful or honest, for a change?
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