Cult-of-celebrity seems to not only be influencing the content of news bulletins (I believe I received a breaking news bulletin this eveing to tell me Ms Spears is in suicide watch) but also their context. That is, the friendly face delivering my murder, crime and corruption is increasingly more likely to be a Botticellian angel - and currently staring back at me, not only from my tv screen, but from the glossy gossip magazines at my nearest newstand. Next, they'll be on my cornflakes packet...
So I thought you might like to read someone else's thoughts on the matter as well.
At least the problem (if you could call it one) doesn't seem as endemic in Britain as it does in the US. They do have to do everything bigger and better across the Atlantic. X.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/dragging-anchors-i-made-the-news-today-455993.html
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Interesting.
Strangely I am quite fond a friendly aesthetically pleasing face delivering my news.
I know, its the content that is important, but at the same time I tend to like watching ( not listening ) to Natasha Kaplinsky.
Aesthetics play a major part in everything.
David Beckham is not the worlds greatest footballer but he is a handsome guy who has used that to become basically David Beckham inc.
Then their is my latest crush. Lucy Vermasay the Sky News weather girl deliver me the latest on the bleak outlook for the nest week than say Francis Wilson.
Its quite true. Chris Moyles will be not gracing a TV screen as a presenter anytime soon. The facially challenged often do however find a home on radio.
On the other hand we do have to question why we accept the fact that people like Kate Moss are millionaires and our TV screens are full of men and women caked in orange makeup, instead of say those who have phd's in nuclear physics and quantum mechanics.
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