The channels ALLOW them to do that? I'm not saying here news aren't biased. But they don't allow their anchors to go off script, there is not much... personality, I guess. Sometimes they go "Yeeeeah, that baby alpaca we just showed is adorable, ain't it?". But the news are not portrayed as personal for them, because we all just agree that it's their job to say the stuff and then they go home.
It would be absolutely out of question for the person to voice something that is (supposed to be) their own opinion on air. No way.
(Just a side note, I am kind of up to date with a lot of US pop culture, but it's usually fiction or something described informally. I never watch US news and even the things I do watch, I don't do it actually on TV as it airs. So my cultural understanding of these things is very limited and filtered.)
I am kind of up to date with a lot of US pop culture, but it's usually fiction or something described informally. I never watch US news and even the things I do watch
I am confused. You say you're up to date with US pop culture when it's fiction, but then you say that you don't watch US news. That's quite a large portion of the output of fiction that you are ignoring.
I think the whole news anchor as celebrity/personality thing originated with Walter Cronkite: The Most Trusted Man in America. Used to watch him every night as a kid.
The channels ALLOW them to do that? I'm not saying here news aren't biased. But they don't allow their anchors to go off script, there is not much... personality, I guess. Sometimes they go "Yeeeeah, that baby alpaca we just showed is adorable, ain't it?". But the news are not portrayed as personal for them, because we all just agree that it's their job to say the stuff and then they go home.
It would be absolutely out of question for the person to voice something that is (supposed to be) their own opinion on air. No way.
(Just a side note, I am kind of up to date with a lot of US pop culture, but it's usually fiction or something described informally. I never watch US news and even the things I do watch, I don't do it actually on TV as it airs. So my cultural understanding of these things is very limited and filtered.)
Only when they spout approved opinions.
I am confused. You say you're up to date with US pop culture when it's fiction, but then you say that you don't watch US news. That's quite a large portion of the output of fiction that you are ignoring.
HURRR. I don't care about fiction unless it has dragons. Not even CNN is that bad. Yet. They have harpies and trolls, though.
I think the whole news anchor as celebrity/personality thing originated with Walter Cronkite: The Most Trusted Man in America. Used to watch him every night as a kid.
And they call you the Queen of Thorns, when they should be calling you Dany.
I never fucked any of my family members.