Cuban and Key West cigar makers were some of the most educated people in the world during their generations in the 1800s and 1900s. They had news read aloud from newspapers, classic book titles and anything requested, while the 80 or so rollers were doing their work. Newsreaders go back a long way.
The guy in the box, directing EVERYONE is boss. I remember seeing a doco about live to air direction of the Oscars? It was full on hectic, like air traffic control, even without any problems.
couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of drama queens. I've worked in a few newsrooms, & they seem to me to have been the seat, the birthplace, of the sort of judgmental sneering that characterises today's rolling news & phone-in radio shows; these guys from the old days of appointment-to-view tv news (as distinct from a whole channel dedicated to salacious gossip, tabloid fodder) were real personalities, & tv news actually meant something then.
Fortunately, in the US, so little news can be taken seriously anyway. I remember when CBS Sunday Morning aired a hard-hitting investigative piece about whether there was a cover-up in the art world over the fact that ancient Greek and Roman statues were originally painted a darker skin tone than the cold white color of marble that we now see. The gist of the piece was that ancient white statues of ancient Caucasian men were somehow racist because the ancient paint had worn off and Americans hadn't been told that they were once browner. The aging female reporter asked a Portuguese art expert whether there was a cover-up. He responded, his voice rising in a defensive whine, "No!" The reporter responded with something like, "No cover-up? Reeeeeealy? No cover-up?" It was hilarious that the reporter could be so ignorant of what art students had known for years and that CBS would go to such lengths to manufacture an example of white racism.
Not sure who it was now, but a male newsreader was being interviewed on a chat show and he said he practiced for weeks to get the right pronunciation of Ndabaningi Sithole, which one must admit is a bit of tongue twister, anyhow he at last got it right and then Ndabaningi Sithole, died, so the only time he got to use the practice was to announce his passing.
While it's not quite news, I can tell you that it can sometimes be difficult being a sports announcer. I've called play-by-play for ice hockey games in the middle of Canada for about a decade, and it's definitely more difficult then it seems, considering how fast of a sport it is. Also, the games are streamed live, so there's pretty much little to no room for error. In other words, if I mess up, anyone who's watching will hear it.
11:17 Verity Lines, Judi's younger sister, I think. Both were pretty gorgeous. They worked at Anglia TV in the 70s, as I recall, and would come into my nearby place of work.
3am has been known to be, at times, in the morning. This phenomenon may very well have been extremely uncommon in most lives, from the immense numbers of redundant brains using the phrase with only the number changed.
jesus,that dermot murnaghan just wanted to be the first to announce princess diana died...with no emotion...with a career...people like dermot murnaghan have careers...the rest of us have jobs...
I have always understood that the announcers are not allowed to show emotion and neither should they all though some of those announcers seemed very jumpy.
You'd think the newsreaders were some kind of warriors, or heroes, instead of just entertainment. Half of them don't even understand the consequences of what is happening and the context their owners and editors are giving to what's written and placed before them. Since journalism courses died, and colleges started offering "communications courses," news has become advertising and entertainment, not enlightenment.
The thing I hated about these compilation shows. Was not only the narrator over the top, bust the constant interruptions of the talking heads. They add nothing. Just show us the clips. Wake up ITV!
"What does it take to be a newsreader ?" Obedience to the Narrative and people who own the Channel. 80% of journalists come from privileged backgrounds, so they always feel entitled to lecture to the Poor and Lower Classes.
What’s your agenda bud? Who’s convinced/hired you to post this? There’s a dozen other comments just like yours on this old news bloopers video - but thousands of similar media attacks across RU-vid. So… Russian? Indian? Chinese?
So, any criticism of the Media has to be done by Vladmir Putin ? Obviously the little people, the stupid people have no right to point out that the people in the Media come from Private schools, privilege and a different Class. They tell us to be "Equal" but don't want to be Equal themselves.It's not just me confidence in the Media is now 24%. i.e. 76% don't believe the Media's lies.@@TitaniumTurbine
I think you guys may have hit on something editing this video...... Add laugh tracks to all news from hear on out, I mean it's all so pathetic anymore that it's hilarious.
Another mindless foreign drone here with the pathetic agenda of “…discredit the news in the west so that no one will pay attention to it anymore, then, we’ll win!”. If you’re not a foreign hired hand, you’re being manipulated.
@@RWL2012 I made my comment 4 months ago, I have a hard time remembering yesterday at my age. But, in most cases you would be right but there must have been something that made me post that comment. Maybe it was nothing, but I wouldn't have made that comment if something didn't seem off. To me anyway...
I took on the challenge of finding his name, but it wasn’t easy - his name is Lamar Stone. He was with KXLF out of Butte, Montana back in the early 90s and only one other photo of him exists when searching online - which is just a black and white crew/anchor group shot. Nothing else, I can’t find him on social media, there’s no obituary, nothing on the people finder sites. He must be an extremely private person.
