Comments on: ‘Anchorwoman’ premieres tonight

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:10:45 +0000

You’re an MD?

By: Susan O. Nishida M.D.

Susan O. Nishida M.D. — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:36:08 +0000

Horrible, and insulting to all women who have worked very hard to be taken seriously as professionals.
I would have support Lauren Jones if she was academically well qualifited for this job, but she can barely read of the teleprompter. She dresses, speaks, and acts like a blond bimbo. I highly commend the women who have to indur such idiot management decisions, and have treated her well. Her test runs were horrible….It just shows you that when you put a beautiful , big busted blond infront of a bunch of men, they instantly become deaf and stupid. An unattractive women trying out in the exact same way, would have been booted. Instead, they take Lauren to a welcome party.
This show is truly an embarrassment to any educated women , who work to the top, now you can just “blond bimbo to the top…..” sure cut your college tuition costs. just add God to give you the right set of boobies.
Susan Nishida MD

By: Weaver

Weaver — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:01:45 +0000

(Other than her lack of a Journalism degree)The only (other) differences in Lauren Jones first day at work was the camera, publicity, marketing and the fact that she already has a well paying career.

Every reporter, anchor starts in much the same way as the show portrays, just without all the hoopla.

Hell, the station I work at hired a former “Survivor” contestant, with NO news experience (but did have a J-degree) to anchor and report.

It was just as goofy as “Anchorwoman” for a while, but he became a great anchor and finally left for a better gig.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:47:36 +0000

et tu Cory?

Let this trashy little show go by unnoticed. The station gets it’s head kicked in by a good TV station across the street so what did their (won’t say) GM have to lose?

I expect big coverage from the dead tree industry but not from you.

By: John

John — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:53:18 +0000

Oh, shoot, Loris, I’m totally the old guy of the group, aren’t I? Sorry, everybody. Please go back to being cool.

By: Swift Loris

Swift Loris — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:10:54 +0000

“And memo to invited: just don’t combine those two words cunning and stunt into one word, or ye shall get slapped.”

Er, John, ever heard of Spoonerisms?

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:50:14 +0000

Regardless of what it does to local TV its still garbage!

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:12:26 +0000

The Simpsons has been making fun of local news for nearly 20 years…

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:05:46 +0000

Cory, I agree that TV should change, but the challenge isn’t content as much as it’s the means of distribution.

Right now the Internet is Playdoh and TV is a brick. The Internet can be shaped into whatever form the user wants courtesy of RSS, aggregation, syndication and all manner of gadgets, widgets and social networking features.

TV doesn’t do that.

At this point the way TV can compete with the Internet is to make the technology available to switch TV news to a completely On Demand format that is customizable and mashable and will allow the viewer to customize their own personal newscasts, choose what they want to watch and filter out things they don’t want, give feedback through the On Demand system to the TV station about each segment, rank and rate segments, and share favorite content with other viewers.

By: John

John — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:30:44 +0000

I always get a kick out of sportswriters and sports broadcasters when they refer to an underrated pitcher, point guard or running back. Aren’t they the ones doing the rating and underrating?

Similarly, I love how the nets this week have been lambasting this “Anchorwoman” farce as if they work in some other industry that definitely wouldn’t hire an attracive moron to grow audience.

Rob and Saf are right on.

And memo to invited: just don’t combine those two words cunning and stunt into one word, or ye shall get slapped.

By: Cory

Cory — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:11:39 +0000

Right Rob, it is television, but television must change because there’s now a better alternative — the internet.

Yes, it’s just a show, but it’s indicative of how people perceive us. And it will only worsen if local TV news doesn’t change its ways.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:00:22 +0000

Why is this latest mockery of local TV news such a departure that has people up in arms?

Because an attractive person has been ‘hired’ to do the news? That’s been done before.

Because an untalented person has been ‘hired’ to do the news? That’s been done too.

Because a news station does a shameless and tacky stunt that slashes their credibility to improve ratings? Uhh huh.

Because a news station is concerned about turning a profit more than journalistic integrity? Check.

Saf’s right. This isn’t the fall of western civilization. It’s just television.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:54:47 +0000

Safran,

Don’t overlook choice 4, that it will actually make local TV news look better! Remember The Simple Life, the first series where Paris and Nicole had to work on a farm? Everybody laughed at the two dumb bimbos but you gained an appreciation for just how hard it is for a real farmer to maintain his family business. I’ll bet that the news bimbo will be laughed at too, which will just accentuate the dedication and integrity of the professional, hard working television employees who are visibly dissatisfied by the bimbo’s questionable actions.

By: invitedmedia

invitedmedia — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:31:29 +0000

yeah, i like stunts too.

and she is one cunning stunt

(thanks go to jim morrison for that one)

By: Steve Boriss

Steve Boriss — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:27:02 +0000

If local TV stations continue to work hard to give viewing customers what they want, and bring that philosophy with them to their online news, they may be among the very few winners in the future of news. This is not a good time to be reinjecting the failing principles of newspaper journalism into local TV. (Steve Boriss, TheFutureOfNews.com)