Journalism as defined by a St. Louis newscast

On her résumé:

 

Is this really a news broadcast or is it a magazine style show? Not that it makes much difference but just curious what we're dealing with here.

 

Yeah, cos graduates from no other college are funneled into the fluffy side of TV news. : And Verse, for a TV journalist, that is probably not frivolous information to a potential employer.

 

Misread it as "gums." Man, she's got some gums.

 

she's a 5, tops. the bestie is a 7

 

It's not a news show. It's not even really a talk show. Shows like that are essentially a series of paid advertising segments with filler here and there geared to mommies.

I can't speak to this specific show, but typically they have no connection to the news department at all. We have one at my station that is run by programming and sales. No one in the newsroom has any role in it whatsoever.

 

It doesn't matter. She's wearing a shirt with the station on it that says "news," she identifies herself as a journalist and the whole segment reflects on the news organization.

She could have done this segment so many different ways, none of which involve flirting with Freese or calling him "her boyfriend" or bringing along her best friend and referring to her as her bestie.

 

The logo at the top of the screen, "Where the news comes first" makes the whole thing for me.

 

But they're a 12 if you do them together.

Which Freese so obviously did.

 

As a "teevee" guy, I don't like this type of programming but I know it makes the station some money for, relatively, little cost. Hire two or three small-market reporters who desperately want to me on in St. Louis, pay them relatively little and, boom, there's your show.

A show like this is to a TV newsroom is what the "bridge tips next to the movie listings" are to your newspaper. Filler.

 

"Mr. Freeze's Reverse Blast."

Hmmmmmmmmm....


As for the BFF, what's up with the black jacket over the cleavage-baring tank top? You gotta use what brings you to the party.