“…They’re often 20-something, usually blonde and not too hard to look at.
But a former newsreader and journalist reckons that is all viewers are getting with the current crop of female television reporters …
… whom she says provide great “eye-candy” … but deliver little else.
In her blog Adjust Your Set, former reporter Janet Wilson gives rival stations and her old bosses TVNZ and TV3 a serve …
… saying they are guilty of hiring pretty, young females for their looks and not their news-sense.
“They’re not there because they can do the job better than anyone else; sniff a story out at ten paces or craft a yarn that makes us think,” said Wilson.
“They’re there because they simply LOOK good.
Try contrasting that with female reporters in the American networks who aren’t considered up-to-speed journalistically until they’re approaching middle-age.”
Just one TVNZ reporter, Christchurch-based Charlotte Bellis, who was schooled in journalism in the United States, escapes Wilson’s tirade…”
(now…where to start with this one…?
1)…we are expected to presume that when wilson..in her telly-career…was hired for on-screen roles…
..that her ‘tits and teeth’ had nothing to do with it..?
2)..these young reporters are told what subjects to cover…by their bosses..
..so..to sheet the crap news/current affairs ‘standards’ in this country…
(cf…’08 global-meltdown…that somehow..they didn’t ‘see’ coming…and at the time..if you remember…they all just parroted the treasury ‘recession over by feb’ next yr bullshit/election-spin..eh..?…
how much more of an indictment of them could just that ‘one’ be….eh..?)
so..to blame our crap news/current affairs on these ‘young reporters’….is actually pointing to the wrong people..eh..?
which brings us to 3)….the irony overload/meltdown…
..in that the partner of wilson…one bill ralston…is the one generally credited with the institutional dumbing-down of our news/cf content..
..during the very long time he ran tvnz news/current affairs..(!)…
..whoar…!…eh…?
..he is the one who brought us to this place….
…and of course….both ralston and wilson have now gone to the ‘dark-side’/public relations….
and will now obfuscate/’spin’ for the highest bidder…eh..?
(ralston is currently ‘spinning’ for both john banks…and the chinese dairy company trying to buy the crafer farms….)
..so…’y'know….!…i didn’t even have to go anywhere near ‘older woman jealousy’….to totally fisk this pile of bullshit….eh..?
go to source/story>>>Young female TV reporters all ‘tits and teeth’ – National – NZ Herald News
