The Other McCain, an ink-stained wretch, explains that Smirking Twit on TMJ4:
...As a journalist, one of my biggest gripes is that TV news has given people a mistaken idea about what journalism actually is. Writing a 700-word news article is a full day’s work for the reporter who has to rely on his own notes of conversations with sources. To be an actual reporter — as opposed to a TV talking head — means spending a lot of time on the phone, trying to get people to tell the truth when it would better suit them to keep the truth out of the newspaper. By contrast, if you understand what TV news actually is, you realize that the anchorman is paid for his ability to convey the proper emotion about what he’s telling you.
As Mamet remarked, newscasters are hired “not for their probity or for their intelligence, but for their ‘believability,'”...
Now you know.
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