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  • It's FLORIDA! Stop complaining about the way the newsgirls look and dress!

    Another quick one, sorry about that....

    I was reading a South FL TV site about an admittedly very attractive weather girl coming to one of our local news stations (The NBC affiliate) from the northeast.

    As I was reading the comments, most were rather negative. Not at the woman herself, but 3 these points:

    1. The station put her on and pushed the male weather reporter that was there to late at night, which is a trend among all the new stations.

    2. Even since the lone male anchor on the station's local morning show retired it's an all-female cast. Cue comparisons to The View.

    3. The news girls don't dress professional, they look like they're going to a club instead of reporting the news.

    My responses:

    To #1: Yes, it's a trend. BUT please remember this is Florida, where it's either hot or hot and rainy. You don't need to watch the weather for that. So in order to get people to watch the morning broadcast they put on an attractive female reporter and save the male reporter for the less-watched late night edition. Makes business sense.

    To #2: The guy retired and the station failed to get a male reporter to replace him because probably no one wanted to take his place. How is this the station's fault? Cue comparisons to the View? This station's local morning show is a fluff show - ten minutes of news and weather and then.... fluff.

    To #3: It's South Florida! Women are going to dress according to the atmosphere around them. Dresses/tops that are low-cut and many times sleeveless and shorter-than-knee length skirts are the norm. Besides, if you saw the female anchors on this morning show, you'll understand. Definitely the best looking news crew around. I'm not complainin'.
    AKA sld72382 on customerssuck.

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    This reminds me of a conversation I had with my cousin and grandma the other day. Cousin just started a new job in the manufacturing sector, and the conversation turned to such jobs going overseas. Grandma said that if she owned a company she'd never send any jobs within the company overseas. Cousin just shrugged and said, "Well, that's a really great thought, but once the reality sunk in, you'd probably end up creating jobs overseas, too." The reason was because it's much cheaper to manufacter stuff in other countries because you don't have to pay the workers as much.

    It's sort of the same thing here. I'm sure that many people will say that it's sexist for stations to only hire ultra attractive weather girls, achors, reports, etc., and perhaps it is. However, I'm sure that if most of those people managed a TV station, they'd probably end up doing the same thing. Why? Because you'd get better ratings, and in that line of work, ratings = business.

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    • #3
      However, I'm sure that if most of those people managed a TV station, they'd probably end up doing the same thing. Why? Because you'd get better ratings, and in that line of work, ratings = business.
      Especially with this station's morning show. As I said before it's a fluff show, so what's a good way to get people to watch the fluff?
      AKA sld72382 on customerssuck.

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      • #4
        Well that's fine for ratings, I suppose, but it pretty much destroys any kind of journalistic integrity the station might have.

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        • #5
          The news is the news. What they wear while announcing it won't change the fact the Charlie Sheen still went to NYC, got a room next to his wife and kids' room, hired a prostitute, went crazy like he was on drugs, then passed out on the floor.
          Violence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. The contrary opinion that violence doesn't solve anything is merely wishful thinking at its worst. - Starship Troopers

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          • #6
            Originally posted by AdminAssistant View Post
            Well that's fine for ratings, I suppose, but it pretty much destroys any kind of journalistic integrity the station might have.
            Leave it to you to trash them.

            Anyway, to give you a better idea, here are the 3 news girls in question:

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99BIj3NUBI - Shiri Spear in her northeast days.

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25ydCW6u8CE - Nathalie Pozo and sweets, what could be better?

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jbzecm-TNk - I wish Roxanne Vargas could be my valentine. Too bad she's married.
            AKA sld72382 on customerssuck.

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            • #7
              I fail to see the issue to be honest.

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              • #8
                I still miss the days when Alexis Glick was on CNBC. Becky Quick is cute though. What?

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